Grab a unique and unforgettable Christmas gift for a loved one, or even treat yourself! This great offer lasts for the whole of December 2024 and includes 25 fantastic bushcraft, craft and ancestral skills courses running in 2025. To take advantage of this offer and get 20% off our 2025 bushcraft, craft and ancestral skills […]
I’ve written posts previously about ash die back in our ancient woodland. Over the last 3 winters we’ve felled in the region of 300 ash trees in and around our main camp. Generally speaking they’ve been small diameter trees and relatively easy to deal with. But we had a bunch of ash along the woodland […]
The table below shows the number of toes for common mammal species in the British Isles. The list includes plantigrades and digitigrades but not ungulates. Take a look at this post for more detail on different methods of locomotion in mammals. Species Fore foot Hind foot Badgers 5 5 Hedgehogs 5 5 Mice 4 5 […]
Now in it’s 8th year, we’ll be starting Bushcraft Club on Wednesday 5th May 2021 at 6:30pm from our ancient woodland camp in Westwell, Kent, just a few miles from Ashford. Bushcraft Club is for over 16s only. It will run for 8 weeks on a Wednesday evening from 6:30pm until 8:30pm (or so) starting […]
Generally my posts on our blog are around ‘How to…’ type scenarios, so how to light a fire, how to put up a tarp etc. I stick to practical posts and stay away from ‘philosophical musings’, but in this one I think I might have veered over a little which has surprised me as it […]
The Government has set out the local restriction tier system that will be in place from Wednesday 2 December 2020. The full text is available here https://www.gov.uk/guidance/local-restriction-tiers-what-you-need-to-know This guidance provides information on businesses that can remain open across all tiers subject to them following COVID-19 Secure Guidelines. The guidance states that certain leisure and sporting […]
