Bushcraft Blog

Many people ask me how to get their children into bushcraft? How to introduce knives safely and at what age? When did I first start foraging with my children? What...

In even the most mundane of places, I see ghosts, let me explain. I enter a room and I wonder about the lives that passed through there; the stories written,...

Winter is coming… I have always struggled with the cold. I was that kid who would still be wearing jumpers in July. When I first got into bushcraft, I particularly...

I was thinking about the names of the months the other day, and one of those little things that you probably don't normally question suddenly stuck in my mind. September,...

I find something particularly satisfying about making my own tools and camp equipment in the woods. These can be as simple as the butterknife we make on the 24hr Family...

When I booked onto the Woodland Ways Jungle Survival Expedition in the Amazon, I was excited, but I was also genuinely nervous. The trip was two weeks long, with around...

We will often say to our customers when they leave our woodlands, they are statistically entering the most dangerous part of the course. The drive home. Long journey times, potentially...

A rich, woodland treat made from roasted Tilia seeds which has mocha and hazelnut undertones. Have you ever wondered whether a familiar British woodland tree could produce something that tastes...

I Didn’t Have a Blanket Pin, So I Made One - Making my second penannular brooch in the hills around Edinburgh There are times when being out in the woods...

Have you ever stopped to think about some of the names we give our plants? I spend a fair amount of time looking at plants, whether I’m teaching foraging, walking...

As the School Liaison here at Woodland Ways, looking back over the past few months feels a bit like flipping through the pages of an extraordinary living history book. It...

Elder is a deciduous shrub or tree reaching 10 metres and is native and widespread in the UK, liking fertile ground in woodland, hedgerows and waste ground. It is also...