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Emily Fawcett

Feb 18, 2020
8 min

Hunting and Gathering in the Kalahari

When the Old Way year group camped out with the San Master Tracker Project in the Kalahari last year...

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Robin Bowman

Dec 24, 2019
8 min

FLYING FREE- My Journey into Falconry

There was a moment a few weeks ago when I watched the sun setting over the distant tors of Dartmoor and i saw her far far away. Over a m...

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Emily Fawcett

Jun 17, 2019
5 min

Knowing your patch

What does it mean to be indigenous to place? Indigenous peoples around the world by definition have a strong connection to the land on wh...

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Fishing Basics - An interview with Charlie Loram

Jessie Watson Brown

Jun 5, 2019
7 min

Fishing Basics - An interview with Charlie Loram

By the banks of the estuary of the river Dart in Devon, I catch Charlie Loram of The Old Way year course and he shares some great tips ab...

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Living the Old Way -

The Surprising Benefits of Harvesting Wild Foods - more than you’d expect.

Charlie Loram and Emily Fawcett

Jan 22, 2019
6 min

Living the Old Way - The Surprising Benefits of Harvesting Wild Foods - more than you’d expect.

When we go seeking wild food, whether foraging, hunting or fishing, we are reenacting our ancestral past and are ‘exercising’ our minds and

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Emily Fawcett

Dec 17, 2018
3 min

Squirrel's back on the menu

Eating food from the land deepens our understanding of what it means to be indigenous to place and putting squirrel on the menu is a delicio

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Emily Fawcett

Nov 5, 2018
3 min

A meeting of minds in the Kalahari

Part of the vision of The Old Way yearlong course is enmeshed in a bigger picture to support the preservation of traditional skills, in part

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Could we engage more of our brain by practicing original ways of being human?

Emily Fawcett

Mar 3, 2018
2 min

Could we engage more of our brain by practicing original ways of being human?

Dirt-time will give us a better understanding of the inter-connectedness of life

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Emily Fawcett

Dec 18, 2017
3 min

Indigenous belonging - Why The Old Way?

I grew up in rural Kent in the 70’s with the freedom to roam a hundred acres of woods and fields teeming with birds, butterflies and four-le

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