Journey Wild with Joe

14/12/2025

06/10/2025

This coming weekend at I am running 2 workshops.

🍂It's a lovely time of year to be outdoors in nature, breathing in the chill autumnal air, leaves crunching underfoot, and learning new skills which connect you to the landscape.

🔥Saturday: A half day workshop in the woods learning the ancient skill of making fire, the essential survival element, through learning how to craft a bow drill friction fire. Learn what it takes to breathe fire into life without matches or a lighter. Each participant leaving with their own kit and instructions to take home and practise with. Ages 12+.

🌳On Sunday we will be spending some slow hours amongst the trees with a carving knife and wooden blank, shaping, creating and carving away. Each participant leaving with their very own hand carved spatula to take home and cook with. Ages 8+.

If you'd like to find out more or book in check out the link in my bio.

29/09/2025

My partner Chloe has just set up to offer therapy and counselling in West Wight and online. If you or someone you know is looking for support please take a look and see if she might be a good fit.

29/09/2025

🔥ReWild - Skills of the Ancestors. Saturday - Sunday Overnight Experience October 4th-5th 2025. Held in woodland near Newtown, Isle of Wight.

🌳Join us in the woods this coming weekend and immerse yourself in nature. We will be taking a step back in time to learn some bushcraft and ancestral skills and connect to the natural world.

Programme:
SATURDAY –
• 10am – 12.30pm arrival, setup and settle
• 12.30 – gather for lunch (self catered) and walk the land.
• 2pm -4.30pm – flint knapping arrowheads in the roundhouse
• 4.30pm – break and time for slowing down in nature
• 5.30pm gather for dinner – (included) – veggie or meat chili
• Evening - option to spend time together by the woodstove in the roundhouse with cups of tea, or seperately as preferred.
SUNDAY
• 9.30 – 1pm either a spoon crafting session or a friction fire making session – voted for by participants
•1pm - 3pm extended lunch break, allowing time to be slow in nature
• 3pm – Gather, reflections and closing.
• Departures by 5pm

⭐This offers a unique way to connect with a loved one/teen/friend and switch off together from the outside world for a while. There will also be downtime to rest and find solitude among the trees, listen to the birds, and to breathe out from the stresses of daily life.

Shepherds hut accommodation options available, along with camping too. Limited spaces available with a max group size of 6.

🍁For more details, please visit the link in my bio/below or email directly: journeywildwithjoe@gmail.com with any questions.
https://bookwhen.com/journeywild/e/ev-sfk0-20251004000000

09/09/2025

This weekend at The Garlic Farm, I’ll be running a Spoon Carving workshop on Saturday morning, followed by two sessions on Sunday: a Flint Arrowhead crafting workshop in the morning and a Spatula Whittling session in the afternoon.

On Sunday, there’s time in between to enjoy a delicious lunch at The Garlic Farm restaurant (booking advised) or the Allium Café.

If you’re feeling inspired to spend a day in the woods working with your hands and learning traditional skills, there’s still space to join both workshops. Come along and leave with your own hand-carved spatula, a collection of flint arrowheads, new skills, and a refreshed mind.

To book in: https://bookwhen.com/journeywild

07/09/2025

🔥ReWild - Skills of the Ancestors. Weekend Experience October 3rd-5th 2025. Held in woodland near Newtown, Isle of Wight.

🌳Join us in the woods this October and immerse yourself in nature. We will be taking a step back in time to learn a series of bushcraft and ancestral skills. Covering friction fire making, flint arrowhead crafting, spoon carving and natural cordage making. This is an ideal experience to be introduced to a range of traditional skills and is a great way to really slow down, spending time in a natural setting alongside birds, the fire and the trees.

⭐Being an overnight weekend, with 2 nights camping - this offers a unique way to connect with a loved one/teen/friend and switch off together from the outside world for a while. There will also be downtime to rest and find solitude among the trees, to breathe out from the stresses of daily life.

Accommodation options available, along with camping too. Only 6 spaces available so do book in if you'd like to join.

🍁For more details, please visit the link in my bio/below or email directly: journeywildwithjoe@gmail.com with any questions. https://bookwhen.com/journeywild/e/ev-sfk0-20251003000000

05/09/2025

Recent moments and New Workshops.
🌿A few photos of late... Its been a busy end to the summer running workshops and displaying at shows. In doing so I've met so many curious, engaged and interesting people, which i have enjoyed endlessly. If you've been along to a workshop with me in the woods, thank you for joining!

🔥A highlight for me was a really fascinating conversation with a clever and curious young boy whilst demonstrating the friction fire. He was amazed at the black charred dust being produced, and keen to use it in his art.

🍂I am also launching the next series of workshops and courses running up to December. If you'd like to dip your toe in the world of traditional crafts and bushcraft nature skills you can check out the shorter, half day courses i run. Or if your keen to jump in there are full day workshops and also a weekend experience so do check out what's on offer. These workshops are a great way to connect to the natural world/family & friends.

🍃Learning a skill together outdoors and overcoming the challenges it offers nurtures bonds that you just dont get from modern entertainment. This type of connection, I think, is endangered and critically needed in todays world. Something people often say to me, is that they dont have the time and space to begin a new craft/interest. To this i find myself responding that, if there's an ounce of curiosity, follow it, atleast dip a toe, and if in doing so, you find a new, unearthed skill, a hobby, a community, maybe a reordering of prioritys can even take place. I often feel that my curiosity about life is the driving force to learning, its my teacher, if i am open to following it. For this im grateful, for being open to the adventure of trying, learning, failing, understanding, and broadening the world in which i live. Like this, every day is an adventure.

🌿For more info and bookings please visit: https://bookwhen.com/journeywild

07/08/2025

Throughout August and September, I’ll be hosting a series of outdoor craft and ancient skills workshops at the Garlic Farm on the Isle of Wight.

These sessions are a great opportunity to connect with nature in traditional ways, work with your hands, and experience the rewarding process behind age-old crafts and skills.

For more info and bookings please visit: https://bookwhen.com/journeywild

30/07/2025

Spent some time in the stillness of the woods today, reflecting on this new venture, sketching out ideas and listening to the wind through the trees as it floated a single buzzard above, calling as it hovered. A woodpigeon egg, an eaten pine cone and a lump of pine resin greeted me as gifts, and reminders to ask the question of all questions as said by the late Tom Brown Jnr, "What happened here?" and "What is this telling me?"

30/07/2025

Some photos from recent spoon carving workshops in the woods. We've had some lovely groups come along and learn to carve. The day's have included moments of chatter and bright sunshine, stillness in the rain under the tarp, joy at the spoons appearing, birdsong in the forest mixed with the sound of carving, sharing of cake and tea for birthday celebrations, and meeting that difficult edge of 'when is a spoon finished?'. If you've been on a workshop with me I really appreciate it!