Guidance that allow us to operate Bushcraft is not listed by the UK Government as a business that is prohibited from operating (i.e. music festivals, venues, libraries, indoor gyms, soft play areas, water parks etc.). Furthermore, the UK Government has maintained that all businesses not prohibited should continue to operate wherever possible, but in line […]
Now in it’s 7th year, we’ll be starting Bushcraft Club on Tuesday 7th July at 6:30pm from our ancient woodland camp in Westwell, Kent, just a few miles from Ashford. After much thought we’ve decided that this year we will run Bushcraft Club for adults only; normally on Family Bushcraft Club we have more people […]
Last year we played around with a few designs for a woodland kiln to use on our Woodland Pottery Courses. We tried different dimensions, different chimneys, different appertures to feed in fuel and probably other things I’ve forgotten now! Some were definitely better than others and eventually we found a design that worked well and […]
I’ve written previously about building an A Frame debris shelter in this post from 2014 and it’s a good post (if I say so myself). But a debris shelter that we built 8 years ago finally gave up over the winter so Nicola and I replaced it a couple of days ago. So I thought […]
Whilst I’ve previously written about fire steels in this post from 2017, we’ve put together a 10 minute video showing how to go about getting the most out of your fire steel. It includes demonstrations of the push forward method, the thumb push and the pull back methods as well as a couple of techniques […]
We run our spoon carving course a few times over the course of a year and we’ve got one coming up this weekend. Getting ready for a spoon carving course involves checking that all of the tools are sharp and also getting hold of the raw materials. So today we were in the woods felling a […]
