Bushcraft Blog

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...

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...

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...

At the entrance to my parents' back garden stands a small tree. I know it has been kept compact because of its close proximity to the house, but on my...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...