• By Rhoda Watkins. Wildlife tracking, a time-honoured practice, serves as a bridge between humanity and the wild. Whether you're an aspiring naturalist or simply [...]

  • King among trees The silver Birch. (Betula Pendula) Genus- Betulaceae The Silver Birch is one of the bushcrafters most beautiful and useful trees. It [...]

  • I have built just a little scratch fire. Enough to boil a kettle of water, enough to keep just comfortably warm, enough to watch the [...]

  • By the time Summer gets here, the birdsong eases off. Those trills and calls, lookingto entice a mate, have paid off. So now they ease [...]

  • Man has been cutting back and removing the trees since farming started in the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age, and has been changing the chemical structure of the soil over the same period. Britain now has only around 13% woodland and forest cover

  • Winter has now given way to longer days, even if there can still be a noticeable chill, and it becomes easier to go out for a longer walk. Embrace the cold and feel the bones beneath your skin, the blood that runs through your veins and rises like the Spring buds, the sap in the trees, the rising colours. 

  • My bushcraft is predominantly about interacting with nature – the landscape, the animals, the plants, the air and clouds. And, more importantly, what that brings [...]

  • Dave Budd tells us about managing his woodland and harvesting the wood he needs to make tools and craft items. Most of us think of [...]

  • I was a bit unsure what to expect from this book, I've known John to be a top ranking bushcraft instructor to those attending his [...]

  • Spring will soon be leading into Summer and we're all making more plans to get outdoors bushcrafting, camping and adventuring.  It's worth having a reminder [...]

  • Spring Wild Food Foraging By Rhoda Mcgivern Spring is my favourite time of the year. I love to explore the countryside as the sun shines on [...]

  • Snaring and the law in the UK There is a lot of confusion among the general public around the subject of snaring and whether it [...]