Bushcraft Blog

For this weeks blog I wanted to talk with you about Nålebinding or Needle Binding, a craft I absolutely love and one that I really want to share with as many...

This is the third and final blog in a series about birch and its uses. In the first blog we covered the many uses attributed to it before focusing on...

In this blog I wanted to talk to you about bushcraft and whether or not you take it on holiday? I have had a few trips away and some have...

I have been a passionate advocate for the outdoors all my life and have received enormous benefits from my time and experience in nature. I have been lucky enough to...

Saws like all cutting tools can be a source of debate. As a forester I have many saws for many jobs so let’s take a look at some options. Firstly,...

In my last blog “Birch Uses and Dry Distillation” we looked at the properties of birch and some of the many uses the tree can provide for us. One of...

I am always interested in the different journeys the Woodland Ways team have taken. We’re quite a diverse lot and I’m sure some of our paths would have never crossed...

I’d like to do a brief run down of how I pack my personal kit for a multi-day canoe expedition in the hopes it might prove useful to someone starting...

Autumn has well and truly arrived here in the northern hemisphere and, since I’m one of those people who feel the cold badly, now is the time when I get...

To compile a set of tools that you can use when in the woods to make items, kit and furniture there are certain things that will make life easier. Most...

In my next few blogs, I will be taking a closer look at birch and its uses, our two native species being silver birch (Betula pendula) and downey birch (Betula...

There are possibly three reasons why I am writing this particular blog at this particular stage of my apprentice journey. Firstly, as a bit of a pep talk to myself....