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Emily Fawcett

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...

Robin Bowman

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...

Emily Fawcett

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...

Jessie Watson Brown

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...

Charlie Loram and Emily Fawcett

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

Emily Fawcett

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

Emily Fawcett

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

Emily Fawcett

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

Emily Fawcett

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