All-access pass (12 months)
Every Wilding activity guide (over 800 printable activity PDFs) and every published Wilding ebook for 12 months, including anything new added during that time. For personal and family use.
£50.00
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Fill your Rucksack
Ebooks, printable activity guides, collections, courses and passes. Everything downloads straight to your account, ready to print and take outside.
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Courses and gift vouchers can be booked now: jump to courses.
Everything in the Rucksack
The whole Wilding Rucksack
Everything, for ever: the Wilding: Wisdom for a Wilder Life and Wild Awake ebooks, every Wilding activity guide (over 800 printable activity PDFs) and every new Wilding ebook as it…
£99.00
Coming soonGroup & organisation licence (12 months)
For schools, forest schools, youth and community groups: 12 months of access to every Wilding activity guide and every published Wilding ebook, for use with your groups.
£120.00
Coming soonBooks & activity guide collections
Each Wilding title comes as an ebook, an activity guide collection, or both together.
Wilding: Wisdom for a Wilder Life
Fifteen ways to reconnect with nature, yourself and each other.
Single activity guides
Over 800 printable activity Guides. Browse the Activity guides library, open any activity guide and add it to your Rucksack.
Courses & gift vouchers
One-day courses for adults (18+). See all courses and how booking works.
Wild Awake course
A day of noticing, wondering and belonging: unplug, open your senses, find your sit spot and begin to know one place.
2 days · £100 a place · Dates coming soon
Ask Jay about datesThe Invisible Wild course
Become a tracker: read tracks, scat, feeding signs and bird alarms, and turn clues into the story of who visited your garden.
2 days · £100 a place · Dates coming soon
Ask Jay about datesWild Wise course
Learn to identify the plants, trees, birds and invertebrates around you, know what is safe, and read the seasons and the land.
2 days · £100 a place · Dates coming soon
Ask Jay about datesEveryday Wilder Living course
Folding saw and sheath knife skills, coppicing hazel, a tarp shelter with the right knots, and lighting and caring for a fire.
2 days · £100 a place · Dates coming soon
Ask Jay about datesFood from the Fire course
Gather and prepare firewood, build a cooking fire and cook a meal over it, then share it around the hearth.
1 day · £50 a place · Dates coming soon
Ask Jay about datesA Walk in the Wild course
Walk with someone who notices: gather well, make wild tea and nettle cordage, and learn which plants help and which harm.
1 day · £50 a place · Dates coming soon
Ask Jay about datesWild Crafts course
Carve, weave and make useful, beautiful things from natural materials, and grow your own craft garden.
2 days · £100 a place · Dates coming soon
Ask Jay about datesSupporting Nature course
Make homes for wildlife, grow pollinator habitat, plant trees and hedges, and join citizen science surveys.
1 day · £50 a place · Dates coming soon
Ask Jay about datesVenture Further course
Plan a journey, read a map and compass, read the weather, manage risk and set up camp further from home.
2 days · £100 a place · Dates coming soon
Ask Jay about datesWild Ancestor course
Make fire by friction, find and purify water, build a debris shelter, move unseen and navigate by sun, stars and land.
1 day · £50 a place · Dates coming soon
Ask Jay about datesWild Guide course
For parents, grandparents, friends and leaders: remember your mentors, listen deeply, ask instead of tell and lead from behind.
1 day · £50 a place · Dates coming soon
Ask Jay about datesWild Sparks course
Play your way through the 15 Practice Keys with games, invitations and stories, and learn to read and lift a group's energy.
2 days · £100 a place · Dates coming soon
Ask Jay about datesWilder Together course
Create shared traditions, a home hearth, tool and fire culture and seasonal celebrations that help a group belong to a place.
1 day · £50 a place · Dates coming soon
Ask Jay about datesNot sure which to choose? Where should I start?
The Wilding ebooks are doorways: places where you can step onto your wilding journey. The Practice Keys open the doors. There is no fixed route, but here are some good first steps.
Know nature
If you want to know nature, Wild Awake is the ideal first step. Drawn to tracks, signs and bird language? You could start with The Invisible Wild instead.
Live wilder
If your curiosity is Wild Crafts, start with Everyday Wilder Living for tool skills and knowledge, then wander into A Walk in the Wild for gathering skills. Wild Wise, a cleverly woven web of learning and discovery, helps all the way.
Pass it on
You can start passing it on at any time, through Wild Guide.
Families & groups
If you work with families or groups of adults and/or children, try Wilder Together or Wild Sparks. Wild Awake is a useful first step too.
What’s in the Wilding Rucksack? Seven parts, one Rucksack
What’s inside
Seven parts. One Rucksack.
Every part links to the others, so an activity guide points you to its chart, its audio and the book that goes deeper.
Wilding: Wisdom for a Wilder Life
The heart of it all: the philosophy, the Wilding model, the 15 Practice Keys and three journeys.
- The Wilding model
- 15 Practice Keys
- Know Nature, Live Wilder, Pass It On
Wilding Activity Guides Library
800+ step-by-step activity guides for games, crafts and skills.
- Search by Practice Key, habitat or species
- Each activity guide includes its templates and charts
- QR codes on every card link here
Ebooks
13 books exploring key topics in depth, one for each course.
- Practical guidance and inspiration
- Links to activity guides, audio, templates and cards
Game and activity cards
Printable cards for games, challenges, storytelling and learning.
- Nature connection activities
- Storytelling and creative play
Wilding Field Guide
Species identification and how everything fits together.
- Key insights and seasonal notes
- Field skills
- Links to relevant activity guides
Templates and charts
Recording sheets that help you notice more and keep it.
- Journalling templates and tracking journals
- Bird sit and sunset watch charts
Audio and video
Guided visualisations, sit spot meditations and skill demonstrations.
- Guided visualisations
- Sit spot meditations
- Demonstrations linked from every activity guide
Ebooks & activity guide collections
Each ebook goes deeper into one part of the journey and comes with its own collection of Wilding activity guides. Tap a cover to look inside.
Wilding: Wisdom for a Wilder LifeThe heart of the Rucksack: why connecting with nature matters, the Wilding model, the 15 Practice Keys and the three journeys, with every Guide linked by QR code.Find out more →
Wild AwakeSlow down, wake up your senses and find a sit spot you return to.Book + 39 activity guides →
The Invisible WildA garden mystery to solve: follow tracks, signs and bird alarms, from tuning in your senses to telling the story of who has been here.Book + 35 activity guides →
Wild WiseMeet your neighbours: plants, trees, birds and insects, the hazards and the helpers, and the web that ties them together.Book + 56 activity guides →
Everyday Wilder LivingWork with simple tools, make useful things, shelter and manage a permitted fire, so you can return to your sit spot, garden or wood all year round.Book + 39 activity guides →
Food from the FireFollow a meal from the invitation to the final thanks: choosing fuel, preparing firewood, managing cooking heat and recipes to share around the hearth.Book + 33 activity guides →
A Walk in the WildA walk with someone who knows the woods: plants and trees, their relationships and gifts, with safety, restraint and gratitude alongside any use.Book + 40 activity guides →
Wild CraftsRepeated making with natural materials: from a familiar object to closer study of material, shape and use, and a growing relationship with what you gather and grow.Book + 43 activity guides →
Supporting NatureBug hotels, bee homes, hedgehog highways, nesting boxes, ponds and citizen science.Book + 57 activity guides →
Venture FurtherPrepare for a weekend on the moor: planning, what to carry, navigation, shelter, water, hazards and leaving no trace, with care for the right to camp.Book + 35 activity guides →
Wild AncestorFire by friction, carrying fire, water, shelter, natural navigation and invisibility: the skills of those who came before, ending in the ancestral challenge.Book + 37 activity guides →
Wild GuideFor parents, grandparents, friends and leaders: the art of Wilding mentoring, Red Fox skills, pathways by age and the Wild Child challenge.Book + 6 activity guides →
Wild SparksNature games for every age, ready-made party and session plans, and how to play in the flow of a group across all 15 Practice Keys.Book + 165 activity guides →
Wilder TogetherBuild a shared culture around the hearth, bring the skills to your group, and hold a group safely from first meeting to passing it on.Book + 217 activity guides →What you can add to your Rucksack
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Wilding: Wisdom for a Wilder Life
The core book: the Wilding model, the 15 Practice Keys and the three journeys.
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Ebooks
Go deeper into one topic, such as The Invisible Wild for tracking and bird alarms.
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Single activity guides
Pick exactly the activities, games and skills you want, each with its templates and charts.
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Activity guide collections
Themed bundles that match a book or course, such as every activity guide for The Invisible Wild.
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Scan from the book
Every activity guide in the Wilding book has a QR code that brings you straight to its page here.
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Cards, audio and more
Game and activity cards, the Field Guide, templates and audio, added as they are released.
How it works
Choose
Browse by Practice Key, journey or topic and pick the resources you need.
Add to your Rucksack
Buy single items or themed collections.
Everything included
Each activity guide comes with the templates and charts it needs.
Build over time
Your Rucksack grows with you, season by season.
Popular starting points
From the Rucksacka seasonal mandala who is resting here, and for how long? found treasure why wrap a seed in spines? small lives why dress like a wasp?