🔥☘New BUSHCRAFT & FORAGING TASTER EVENTS at National Trust's Hardcastle Crags 🔥☘
Our new programme of events at Hardcastle Crags near Hebden Bridge begins in May.
If you'd like to try you hand at Bushcraft, or enjoy a foray into Foraging for wild food, now is your chance!
🔥 BUSHCRAFT TASTER SESSIONS 🔥
Various Dates
Adults £25 Young people £15/£10
During a Bushcraft Taster Session you will be introduced to one of a range of core bushcraft skill-sets, from fire making and shelter construction to using hand tools and carving wood. Join our expert Bushcraft Instructors, Leonie and Thryn, for a practical, hands-on experience at the beautiful Hardcastle Crags.
🔥BUSHCRAFT & SURVIVAL DAY🔥
Saturday 20th June 11am-5pm
£75
Join us for an immersive introduction to the world of bushcraft, led by qualified Bushcraft Instructors, Leonie and Thryn. Take home a range of new skills that will help to keep you comfortable and safe when out and about in the wilds. This will be a fun and informative day, focusing on practical activities and hands-on experience.
☘ FORAGING TASTER SESSIONS ☘
Adult £25/ Young person £15
Join Live Wild foraging expert, Leonie, for a fun and informative foray into the practice of wild food foraging. Your Taster Session includes:
☘A general introduction to foraging, including how to forage safely and within the law
☘An understanding of the season, and what wild edibles to look for
☘How to confidently identify a range of common edibles
☘Tips on how to sustainably harvest and process wild foods
☘A selection of seasonal wild food tasters, pre-prepared by Leonie
#bushcraftcourse #hardcastlecrags #calderdale
✨🔥What a lovely day! 🔥✨Today’s Fungi & Foraging group were full of fun, laughter and enthusiasm, and the mushrooms were popping! Our intrepid foragers found some prize penny bun mushrooms, a troop of magical flyagrics, and so many other beautiful species from a variety of different fungal families. Thank you to all who came along and made it so magical 🍄🟫🍄
🍄🟫🔥THE FORAGER’S JOURNEY CAMPOUT🔥🍄🟫
Secreted away in wooded hills above Hebden Bridge, our Forager’s Journey group settled amongst the rowan and birch for crafting, weaving community, and cosy times around the campfire. We also managed to have three puddings after tea, which felt very hobbity! Beautiful containers were crafted from willow bark and nettle, ready to be filled with berries and seeds. Poems, delicious treats, stories and laughter - the weekend was special indeed. We were also delighted to find plenty of mushrooms popping up! ✨
🏳️🌈Next at NATURE QUEERS - Forage & Healing Balm Making🏳️🌈
Thursday 21st May 10.30-2.30 - Hardcastle Crags, Hebden Bridge
Join us in LGBTQ+ community for this relaxed, welcoming workshop to learn about the edible and medicinal herbs and plants that can found as this abundant time of year.
We’ll share plant identification skills, and ways to harvest and prepare the wild treasures we find for both food and medicine. You’ll also make your own pot of healing balm to take home with you.
Tickets on a sliding scale from £25.
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☘THE FORAGER'S JOURNEY 2026 - Part II ☘
On our long-term foraging programme, The Forager's Journey, we celebrated the season's sweetness and the arrival of summer with song, ceremony, and sweet woodruff cake in one of our favourite local spots.
Following in the footsteps of past peoples, we journeyed through bluebell-scented woods, meeting an array of edible flowers, seeds and shoots along the way.
Around an old stone bridge grows a very special plant. Common bistort, also known by a variety of other enigmatic names including adderwort, dockings, ledger, and snake root, has been picked locally for centuries at least, and used to make the traditional Calderdale dish, dock pudding.
We cooked up our own version using a recipe from the 1800s, and enjoyed this hearty, nourishing wild snack in the sun with the stream flowing beside us.
A magical day, honouring historic wild food traditions and making new ones of our own. We are excited for the next adventure together this weekend 🌞
#theforagersjourney #dockpudding #sweetwoodruff
🌱FORAGING IN THE BLUEBELL WOOD🌱
We had a wonderful day of spring foraging with a recent group, celebrating the Calderdale tradition of making 'dock pudding' by cooking up our own version over the fire. Our woodland basecamp was surrounded by bluebells, and the air smelled so sweet!
With the hedgerows bursting to life, we found an array of tasty edibles and there was much laughter and joy at this beautiful time of year amongst the flowers and blossom.
Thanks to all who came along and made it such a fun, joyful day 🌞
#hebdenbridge #calderdale #westyorkshire
☘CERAMICS, FORAGING & WHITTLING ☘
Join us for this unique course combining foraging, ceramics, and whittling, in collaboration with the wonderful Phoebe Ward, local ceramicist.
Saturday 9th May & Saturday 23rd May
Over two sessions, create your own unique ceramic utensil rest (dublé) and accompanying hand-carved wooden spatula. The workshops include:
🌿A guided foraging walk in a beautiful local woodland, collecting flora to create your decorative botanical design.
🌿Crafting your fired and glazed ceramic item: a dublé (spoon or spatula holder) under expert tuition from local ceramicist, Phoebe Ward in the studio.
🌿Whittling a spatula to go with your finished piece. You’ll be introduced to the traditional craft of whittling wood using hand-tools, and hone techniques shared by our experienced Live Wild whittling tutors.
🌿 Wild tea tasting. Sample a range of wild brews as we explore and craft together.
#hebdenbridge #calderdale #westyorkshire
🍃SPRING FORAGING COURSES🍃
Our spring foraging courses are in full swing, and we've had a wonderful time wandering in the bluebell woods with fantastic groups of people.
Buds, fungi, shoots and sap... there have been so many wild treats to enjoy! For Easter weekend, we also cooked up a special local dish over the fire - dock pudding. This savoury pudding, made with common bistort, has been eaten in Calderdale for hundreds of years. It tasted delicious cooked over the fire and enjoyed with ramson pesto!
Thank you to everyone who joined us and made the days so special 🌞
#dockpudding #foraginguk #livewild #calderdale
🍀THE FORAGER'S JOURNEY 2026🍀
Our adventure begins! On the Spring Equinox, we gathered together for the first in our eight-part immersive foraging course, The Forager's Journey. The sun shone as we celebrated the spring and all its wild treasures. There were games, gifts, wild crafts, and ceremony as we began to weave our Forager's Journey community for the year. A wonderful group and a very special day. We are already looking forward to our next gathering later in April 🌞
#theforagersjourney #springequinox #newbeginnings #hebdenbridge
🌈APRIL AT NATURE QUEERS 🌈
Join us in the beautiful surroundings of @hardcastlecrags_nt near Hebden Bridge for our LGBTQ+ offering, Nature Queers, this April.
Upcoming sessions:
🌈Saturday 11th April
End of the World Survival Training: Join us to learn a range of basic survival skills that are great for confidence and resilience when camping and hiking... and super handy for the end of the world!
We’ll cover how to stay warm and dry with fire and shelter, safely gather water, and look after yourself and each other in the wild.
🌈Thursday 16th April
Grounded Yoga & Guided Reflection
with guest facilitator, Heather of Wild Heather Wellness: Meditation, yoga, guided journaling, and connection circle.
This session will blend mindful practices with relaxed journaling and a sacred circle to help you slow down, reflect, and connect.
🌈Thursday 30th April - Beltane Celebration: Join us for a seasonal celebration as we mark the Celtic fire festival of Beltane. The session will include a ceremonial fire, time for reflection and intention setting, co-created ritual, and coming together as a community to celebrate the beginning of summer.
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#naturequeers #calderdale #lgbtq
☘THIS SUNDAY 22ND - JOIN A SUNNY SPRING FORAGE - Hebden Bridge ☘
☘We are delighted to see such a sunny weather forecast for this coming Sunday 22nd, when we'll be heading out into the woods for a forage, fire, and cook up.
☘There are four tickets left for this immersive wild food course, would you like to join us? 🔗 in B!o
☘THE DAY INCLUDES:
✨ A foraging walk exploring woodland, hedgerow, and meadow habitats. Your guides will cover plant and fungi identification, harvesting, preparation, folklore, and nutritional/ medicinal benefits of the wild foods we find
✨An introduction to wild fermentation
✨Sustainably tapping for nourishing birch sap
✨How to make a fire using only a mushroom and a spark
✨A range of home-made foraged treats to try along the way
✨A cook-up of wild finds over the campfire Leave the busy day-to-day behind and connect to the peace and abundance of spring in the bluebell woods.
#calderdale #hebdenbridge #livewild
🍄🧙 NATURE QUEERS WOODLAND GAMES SESSION 🧙🍄
✨SAT 28TH MARCH - 10.30-3.30 ✨
Join us for a very special instalment of our regular Nature Queers programme at the beautiful Hardcastle Crags near Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire.
🧙Our experienced facilitators invite you to join them for a day of magical adventures. Step into a woodland world of nature-themed games & quests, connecting to all the elements as you explore and play in the beautiful spring forest.
🔥We'll have a cosy campfire to gather around, and the day will include some reflective time in nature as well as lots of fun, laughter, and enchantment.
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ABOUT NATURE QUEERS:
Our regular Nature Queers events are about connecting to nature, self and LGBTQ+ community whilst learning a range of practical outdoor skills, from whittling and foraging to bushcraft and fire-making. Sessions take place at National Trust’s Hardcastle Crags, a beautiful wooded valley just outside Hebden Bridge.
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