Tracks and Hides: Hunters Intro

A holistic introduction to hunting covering all the basics of how, when, where and processing ALL of the animal. Hunting is a journey of discovery both in yourself and of the animals and wilds of our landscape. This is a starting step onto that journey.

Salt, Pickle, Smoke and Brew

A weekend of feasting, preserving and processing foods in traditional ways over fires. There is much tasting and gastronomic delights to indulge and explore whether you enjoy foo or cooking over fire this will add a string to your bow that will turn around any backcountry camping experience.

Cold Smoking

Its a fun hangout and day of smoking cheese, fish, hams and garlic. Keeping a fire stoked and watching this smoke. This ancient technique along with salting can preserve meat for 18months!

Tanners Trade: Brain Tanning or Buckskin

Turning a deer skin into a strong, breathable flexible material for your next sewing project. Making buckskin is a right of passage in the ancestral skills world. It takes some conviction and perseverance to achieve and we are here to guide you through it.

Bowyers Craft: Yew Longbow Carving

Spend a delightful week crafting and honing your new yew longbow, making the strings, fletching some arrows and getting some shots in down range. There is nothing quite like the trepidation of drawing back your first bow and watching the arrow fly in great wonder.

Wood Carving

Learning to use your knife to carve your latest creations be it a mug, spoon walking stick or your trap for a rabbit. Good knife skills are the foundations of many a woodland crafts, tools and life. Perfect this skill and turn it into an art form.

Bushcraft

Technology takes a back seat and we delve into everything the woods can give us to thrive in the wild. We will live in shelters, cook on fires, make cordage and learn about friction fires.

Complete Survival

5 Days

In depth learning and practicing survival skills to deepen your knowledge of how to thrive in the woods. We will cover survival kits in depth  and guide you to create your own. You will gain first hand experience and practice with everything you need to survive a few nights stranded.

Essential Survival

2 Days

A weekend of learning survival skills to help you gain confidence in the backcountry should anything go array. Preparation is the key to any successful outing in wilderness and this workshop is a part of that preparation.