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Our online bushcraft courses shop is now live! - The Woodsmoke website has been undergoing alot of changes lately and at long last we are leaving the stone-age and are taking online bookings!

bushcraft skills tutorialsWe have redesigned our resources section which now has a new 'Skills Tutorials' section
which contain illustrations from Ray Mears book 'Bushcraft', illustrated by Woodsmoke's co-founder Ben McNutt - some of these step-by-step illustration did not appear in 'Bushcraft' and are being showcased here for the first time...

The 'Resources Pages' are under construction but will soon contain -
  • Flash galleries giving step-by-step bushcraft skills tutorials
  • Online video lessons (coming soon...)
  • The bushcraft and tracking quiz to test your knowledge
  • Product, book and courses reviews
  • Bushcraft equipment advice for every environment
  • The A-Z of bushcraft books - our recommended reading list
  • Web links - Woodsmoke's favourite bookmarks
bushcraft magazinesThe 'Media Pages' have also been given a facelift and now contain links to Woodsmoke in the newspapers, in magazines and to our new Bushcraft Social Network Group.

We are pleased to announce that Fergus Drennan (also known as Fergus the Forager, from BBC’s Road-kill Chef) will be joining us next year on our seasonal wild foods and wilderness cookery courses. Fergus’s wealth of knowledge about wild edibles and his wacky recipe ideas are guaranteed to add some extra flavour to the wild food courses! You can find out more about Fergus by visiting his website - www.wildmanwildfood.com

A blatant display of nepotism to advertise my folk’s place in Gascogne. They have renovated a beautiful old farmhouse into a sizeable Gite for letting. It has a private swimming pool, stocked carp pond, a help-yourself organic vegetable garden and is surrounded by woodland and lakes, and is less than an hours drive to the Pyrenees. For more details, check out www.mcnuttinfrance.com