The above courses may have bookings already. Please confirm your specific date by telephone.

Other events where you can meet the Backwoods team in 2012:

Nature Week Loch Lomond Shores bushcraft demos 17 - 19 July

Wilderness Gathering  bushcraft & wilderness skills festival  16 - 19 Aug

Galloway Wood Festival bushcraft demos and crafts exhibits 28 Aug

Scottish Outdoors Show lectures & bushcraft demos SECC 15 - 16 Oct
 

News: Patrick features with Euan McIlwraith on BBC Scotland's Out of Doors show on Saturday 15th Oct & BBC iPlayer, lighting fire by friction, using fish traps in the river and cooking up freshwater eel for lunch

Backwoods are exhibiting at the Scottish Outdoors Show at the SECC on Oct 15-16th, come along and meet the team and hear Patrick talks and see our bushcraft skills demos in the Wilderness Camp

Listen to Patrick chatting to DJ Simon Pauley on Insight Radio, the radio station of the

RNIB on Wed 3rd Aug at 11am

See Patrick as you've never seen him before as he tests Derek Thornton to the limits in the hilarious "Derek's dreaming again" on BBC1 NI (Sky 973) on Mon 27 June at 10.35pm & BBC iplayer

Patrick features in June's TGO magazine, discussing firelighting skills and bushcraft

Just finished filming another 4-part wild foods mini series with chef Nick Nairn for BBC's "Landward" 

cooking up some springtime delicacies, starting on Fri 27th May at 7pm

Patrick cooks up some wild foods with Nick Nairn in BBC2's "Landward" over 3 weeks,

starting with shellfish & seaweeds on Fri 10th Dec 7pm

Just back from filming in the snow with author Steve Rinella for new US TV series "The Wild Within"

Read an interview with Patrick in the Sun newspaper

Patrick appears with Nick Nairn in BBC2's "Landward" to be aired over 3 episodes in December

Watch out for Patrick foraging wild foods with Prof Iain Stewart in BBC's "Making Scotland's Landscape"

on BBC1, starting Sunday 24 Oct

Catch up with our most recent media work on the Backwoods Facebook page   

School holidays are here - so it must be time for  Patrick to have some fun with STV's Dad's School!

Hear Patrick discussing bushcraft on Radio Scotland's Fred MacAuley show (start at 30 mins)

Reporter Gayle Ritchie writes in the Daily Record about her introduction to bushcraft and wilderness living skills on our Backwoodsman Course.

Read about writer Kevin Rushby's experiences on our Backwoodsman Course and how he put his bushcraft skills to the test in the Scottish wilderness in the April edition of GQ Magazine

See Patrick on Living TV's Meet The Hasselhoffs, giving TV star David Hasselhoff (The Hoff) and his family a light hearted introduction to wilderness living skills. See the video here (start at 3.30mins)

              See Patrick on STV's The Hour Show, taking TV personality Michelle McManus out for a day in the woods to learn some bushcraft skills