Monthly Archives: September 2013


View from the camp

As I was taking a few bits into the camp this morning getting ready for the birthday party, I took this snap of the view from the camp  It’s taken from just outside the gate and looking down the field and across the valley.  Not a soul in site or any sign of buildings, roads […]

View from the camp | bushcraft| south east | Kent

craft courses | bronze | certificate

Bronze Certificate from Craft Courses

We’ve just started to advertise our ‘Blacksmithing, Bodging & Bushcraft’ course on Craft Courses, a great website for finding, well, craft courses!  Anyway, we’ve already started to get some reviews and have been awarded a Bronze Certificate! We were pretty confident after running the course for the first time last week that we were on to […]


Blacksmithing, Bodging & Bushcraft photos

You might have seen our posts recently showing the shave horses  and pole lathes we’d made in preparation for the ‘Blacksmithing, Bodging & Bushcraft’ course.  Well, we ran our first one  last week and it was fantastic.  A great course to try out lots of craft skills and our students made some excellent items from both metal […]

pole lathe | green woodworking | bodging | south east | Kent

Badger cull

Badger Cull

As someone who is passionate about wildlife in general, and British wildlife in particular, I instinctively find the pilot badger culls in Somerset and Gloucestershire to be abhorrent. At the same time, if you’ve been on one of our bushcraft courses, you’ll know that the magnificent ancient woodland we use is part of a farm, […]


Pole lathes ready to go! 3

Pole lathes have been set up today ready for the ‘Blacksmithing, Bodging & Bushcraft’ course starting on Wednesday.  At the moment they are set up to use bungee cord instead of poles.  We can add poles at any time.  We’ve set up 3 lathes as well as 3 shave horses.  They are all under shelter, […]

pole lathe

fallen beech branch

Fallen beech branch 2

The beech is renowned for dropping limbs and is often referred to as the ‘widow maker’.  We always advise against camping under them and whilst the risk is low, it is certainly real.  This beech is close to our camp  (although you’ll be glad to hear that there aren’t any beech in the camp itself!) and has […]