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🃏 Includes a printable card set: every Wilding activity guide as an A6 card (four to an A4 sheet) to spread out, plan with or use for a lucky dip. See a sample

See the whole collection at once. Plan a programme, pick tonight’s activity, or let the lucky dip choose for you. Tap any card to open its Wilding activity guide.

Making a beetle bucket

Making a leaf habitat

Making a bug hotel

Making a solitary bee home

Making a bumble bee box

Making a bee nest

Making a bee scrape

Making a bee watering station

Making a wormery

Creating a deadwood habitat

Making a log wall

Making a hibernaculum

Making a small wildlife pond

Planning a butterfly & bee garden

Gathering seeds from plants & trees

Making & gifting a ‘seed gratitude ball’

Growing a pollinator habitat from seeds

Growing a pollinator habitat with plant plugs

Taking & growing cuttings

Splitting plants

The big bug count

The UK ladybird survey

The big butterfly count

Making a hedgehog home

Making a bat home

Creating a garden watering hole

Making a mammal table

Growing a small tree sapling

Planting a sapling in the ground

Planting & maintaining a wildlife hedgerow

How to do a dead wood survey

Using iNaturalist

Become a citizen scientist

Window warnings

Sharing the garden with birds

Providing nesting materials

Making a dead hedge

Making & maintaining a bird bath

Providing food for birds

Maintaining a bird feeder

Building & positioning a blue tit nesting box

Building & positioning a robin nesting box

Building & positioning a swift home

Maintaining a bird nesting box

BTO Garden BirdWatch

RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch

How to make & use a pitfall trap

How to make an earwig trap

How to make a pooter

How to use a pooter

Using a sweep net

How to make & use a moth trap

How to attract moths by sugaring

Making a beating tray

How to do a line transect

How to make a jar terrarium

How to measure rainfall

Making a bird roosting pocket

Safety, and where the Wilding activity guides come from

Look after yourself and others. Outdoor activities carry real risks: fire, tools, water, weather, heights, plants, fungi, animals and getting lost. Every Wilding activity guide includes safety notes, but you are responsible for your own safety and for anyone in your care. Supervise children closely, get the landowner's permission, follow the Countryside Code, never eat anything you cannot identify with complete certainty, and only light fires where it is allowed and safe. If in doubt, leave it out.

With gratitude to the lineage. Wilding and its Practice Keys are inspired by the work of Jon Young and colleagues: the core routines of nature connection in the 8 Shields approach, also known as Coyote Mentoring, shared in Coyote's Guide to Connecting with Nature (Young, Haas & McGown). Many of the Wilding activity guides grew from those routines.

These ways of noticing and belonging are far older than any book. They grow from the knowledge of Indigenous and land-based peoples around the world, who have lived in close relationship with the land for thousands of years and have kept that knowledge alive, often in the face of great loss. Jon Young describes 8 Shields as built on patterns of nature connection he found in Indigenous cultures around the world, and on what his mentors taught him, including the teachings passed down through Tom Brown Jr. from Grandfather Stalking Wolf. Our own ancestors in these islands once knew the land in this way too.

I offer Wilding with deep respect and thanks to all of them. It does not claim or copy any culture's ceremonies or sacred practices. It is a UK way of carrying forward simple, shared human ways of paying attention, giving thanks and belonging to a place. — Jay