Bushcraft Blog

For those of you who follow Woodland Ways on Facebook, you may have seen the team’s social gathering in August, when Jason had arranged with Lord & Lady Manners for...

Some little facts about our beautiful native Field Maple Acer campestre. Field maple leaves Acer means ‘sharp’ and is from the family Aceraceae now moved to the Sapindaceae family of...

Many of you may be familiar with Dandelion honey and may have made it in the past, of all the foraged foods I have ever introduced my wife to Dandelion...

Over the years of being fascinated by bushcraft I have often found myself in a state of mind where I am totally absorbed in the task or subject matter at...

Welcome to my podcast, following my journey through a year of living completely off what the land offers:

Today I want to share with you a use of a plant that I’m pretty sure you will all know and be able to identify and that is so widespread...

Many of the common names have male and female connotations, Lords and Ladies, Kings and Queens, Devils and Angels. This all relates to how the plant forms to seemingly represent...

After a trip to the coast, I have begun to extract my own sea salt. This is the rough procedure. Step 1Fill and haul containers of seawater up from seashore....

A key component of bushcraft in my opinion is being able to tune into the natural world around you and appreciate how plants can be transformed into food, medicine, natural...

Spring has arrived and with it our Spring Foraging Courses. It’s a wonderful time of year to blow off the winter cobwebs and get outside to soak up the life...

Growing up on the coast of Essex gave a very focussed habitat type which is why I always craved the change of location during holidays. Every half-term, end of term,...

Many of you may have seen my earlier blogs, looking at the wild foods I might need to survive living off the land for an entire year. I am not...