King Alfred’s Cakes At this time of year there’s not so much around to forage, but these are a favourite for fire-making. I always keep an eye open for them when I’m out in the winter woods. Their Latin name is Daldinia concentrica and if you break one open you’ll …
In conversation with No Serial Number Magazine, a publication which explores environmental sustainability through traditional crafts and innovative design. We discuss my practice: my relationship to the landscape where I forage my materials, and about coping with the weather. I describe my connection to foraging and the raw materials themselves: …
After a day of making cordage from foraged plant fibres, my grubby fingernails show evidence of all the separating and scraping. Once you’re committed to the steady, repetitive nature of prepping and twining cordage, it’s a deeply satisfying process. So much so that it’s hard to stop when dusk starts …
For ages I’ve been wanting to make a pack, or back, basket from wood splints. They’re best made in the spring when …
Space Between is a recently commissioned, site-specific woodland sculpture at Wakehurst, (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew). It’s situated in Pearcelands Wood, their newly-opened ancient …
‘Plants are integral to reweaving the connection between land and people. A place becomes a home when it sustains you, when it …
One of the things that makes our Wild Pottery courses ‘wild’ is that we dig our own clay from the land What …
It’s a busy time for foraging plant materials right now. The plants have made all the vegetative growth they’re going to make …
During the Neolithic time at Stonehenge, there would have been willows growing on the banks of the river Avon, which ran right …
I’m delighted to have been invited by English Heritage to run some staff training at Stonehenge in Neolithic-style basketry. They recently constructed …
