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Fundamentally, how we identify trees is similar to how all creatures identify anything in their environment - there's nothing unusual or magical here!
Here we'll introduce 18 common UK trees as a quick "look-up" information source (most native and a couple of others naturalised).
Getting to know...
The following words follow a simple practice of self-grounding, which brings attention to each of the four elements and acknowledges their role in supporting us, and in turn the responsibility we have to use them responsibly.
The exercise reminds us about appreciation, our connectedness and provid...
Bushcraft is not JUST about fires. There is plenty of appreciation around a campfire, and joy in establishing a first fire.
But how about why we're striking a ferrorod, or creating a tinder bundle, and what's going on?
Our outdoor teaching provides the understanding of basic principals and co...
The woodlands, hillsides and moorlands are natural and unstructured, and therefore are unpredictable.
We believe that spending time in the outdoors, engaged in some form of new experience such as skills learning or hiking across open landscape, really does help build positive personal characteristi...
Nettles remain in our opinion, THE most underrated and versatile of green plants, especially considering that most of us are warned away from the plant during childhood, due to its stings. There are proven medicinal and nutritional benefits, folklore around nettles for protection, cures and dreams,...
I always loved the freedom of the outdoors.
That thought kept clashing (as home computer technologies became mainstream) with the feeling that we are a tech-focussed society, constantly looking at screens and retreating into our own digital spaces, rather than looking up and appreciating, and under...
Fleece - "technical wear" - traditional woolly jumpers - cotton... so much variety in the literal fabric of the clothing that we often overlook, yet we rely on in the outdoors!
We thought this a good topic, for winter and early spring, as we all ask the question so often: "what's right for the w...
Whether outdoors or inside, we need and use fire for heating of food and ourselves. The need is a core part of human existance and survival, and often under-appreciated in the modernised world.
Here’s a quick run down of our best tips and tricks, from what we like to call “firecraft”.
Many thin...
The sense of innate freedom is in us all when we step outside, even if we are still around our homes. We all feel a connection with the living world, outside; a world which continues regardless, whilst we are distracted by screens. Stepping outdoors and taking a moment to notice detail of things is...
It's a fundamental question, which has probably been asked during hunting excursions since we lived in caves, yet it's only in the last decade that studies have begun to analyse the psychology.
As long as I can remember, various members of my family at various times have made a call, irrespective o...
This sentiment is one I learnt, one way or another, as I grew up and made my way in the world: whilst I may have had dreams to become a modern-day mountain man, it just would have to start with a few smaller steps. It's the same discussion held in many business management and self-improvement classe...
To us, an adventure is something that takes you somewhere that you wouldn't ordinarily be and shows you things you wouldn't otherwise have seen. On a really small-scale, it could be as simple as taking walk down a lane in your town that you either haven't been along previously, or which you haven't...