Bushcraft Blog
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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...
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Introducing Bushcraft Skills to your Holidays
How you can introduce Bushcraft Skills to your holiday, wherever you're going, whoever you're with.
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Yew trees and origins of the name
Yew, Taxus baccata, English Yew, Common Yew, European Yew. The name Yew comes from the Celtic name ‘iw’, but its ancient meaning is unknown. This also became ‘ew’ or ‘ewe’....
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Making Herbal Capsules
Amongst all the instructors here at Woodland Ways we have a mentality of just knowing about something not being enough, there is a lot to be said for practical experience...
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Dehydrating Foods - Lightening the Load for Exploring the Outdoors
I am always looking for way to reduce the weight of my kit, mainly so I can carry more sleeping bags. I hate to be cold! There's no getting away...
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Doorstep Bushcraft Resources
I don’t have easy access to local woodland where I can responsibly forage materials for use in Bushcraft however I do have a small back garden full of plants that...
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The Red Oak: A Guide to Identification and Habitat
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...
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Field Maple Facts
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...
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Rosebay Willowherb Honey
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...
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Being in a state of flow…
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...
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Nicola’s Year on the Land
Welcome to my podcast, following my journey through a year of living completely off what the land offers:
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Oooops a Daisy!!
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...