Bushcraft Blog
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Basketry from a Bumper Crop of Dandelions
This spring my lawn turned into a carpet of yellow, a proper bumper crop of dandelions. My mind wandered through all the different ways I could use this abundance, and...
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For the love of... brambles
It’s no secret…I love Brambles! And with good reason. Don’t get me wrong I have lost count of how many times I have turned the air blue because it has...
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Nicola's A Year on the Land Roundup
As many of you know, last year (2025) I finished an epic project attempting to live completely off the land for a year. Here, I would like to share how...
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Eating the journey, incorporating foraging into your woodland walks
There’s a moment, somewhere between striking a flame and the first quiet roll of a boil, where the woods stop being somewhere you pass through and start becoming something you...
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The Hidden Bloom: A Guide to British Catkins and Tree Reproduction
When most people think of spring blossoms, they imagine the showy petals of a Cherry Tree or the hedgerows of Blackthorn. However, some of Britain’s most vital trees—Hazel, Birch, Alder,...
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Achillea Millefolium - Yarrow
Yarrow is an amazing plant, and one that caught my attention when I was dipping my proverbial toe into the world of foraging and natural medicines. However, I mistakenly believed...
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It’s all in the name - from nuclear disaster to Mugwort
Language is such a powerful tool; the way we phrase things, intonation, body positioning, facial expressions, the list of “language” styles we employ in our daily lives is extensive. I’ve...
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What's the difference between Grey and Goat Willow?
The team of instructors and apprentice instructors at Woodland Ways love customers on our courses to ask questions. On the one hand it shows interest and engagement, on the other,...
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Phytochemicals in UK native plants
Phytochemicals, a word that can create an immediate barrier with how complex it sounds but its meaning is quite simple, plant chemicals. What they are and what they do to...
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Croatia 2014
This year was the first time of running our Wildlife Watching and Tracking course in Croatia. We had a brief recce of the area last year and were blown away...
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What is your Bushcraft why?
In this blog I am going to explore some of the different reasons for being drawn into Bushcraft and Survival, and how those "Why" reasons change along the journey. As...
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Croatia Check List Update
After two fantastic weeks tracking and wildlife watching in Croatia we are finally back in the UK. Over the two weeks our instructor team between them clocked up nearly 400...
