Hidden Valley Bushcraft
Welcome to our Family Bushcraft Channel!
My name is Nick Goldsmith and together with my wife Louise, our son Finley and fox red Labrador Tilly, we aim to inspire you to have your own family adventures in the great outdoors.
We focus on wilderness living skills, traditional crafts, and are strong advocates of using nature to improve mental well-being.
In 2014 I was diagnosed with complex PTSD after a busy career as a British Royal Marine Commando. I now use the outdoors to manage my condition.
I am a full time Bushcraft Instructor, Ethnobotanist and outdoor chef and Louise is a qualified Forest School Leader.
Together we run Hidden Valley Bushcraft and The Woodland Warrior Programme from our private woodland in the South West of England.
We will be offering survival and foraging tips, family bushcraft activities and kit reviews as well as a variety of useful videos to help with your mental well-being.
We hope you enjoy,
Nick, Louise, Finley and Tilly.
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Hi everyone! Been a while since I've posted I know, but I've been working on something pretty exciting. Really happy to share that my new book is now available for pre-order. It's not being published tell next year but hit up the link below and you can be the first to get your hands on a copy:
www.amazon.co.uk/ReWild-Your-Mind-happier-healthie…
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Thanks so much for all your amazing messages since the vid yesterday. It's been such a tough decision to take a break, but we'll be back...
What do you want to see when we're back?
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Hi everyone! Sorry this week's vid is late - technical issues. Appropriate considering it's a blooper reel! 🤦
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Happy Sunday people ! 👀
Current view - Up at the small holding, creating a poly tunnel from an old British military tent frame ⛺️ 💪🌳⚔️🇬🇧
Reminder this weeks vid is about to go live !
Whatever you are up to this weekend, I hope it’s going to plan for you .
Forwards together 🤝
Nick
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After spending a morning in the woods resupplying the cabin it’s on to the other jobs. Here I am working through piles of old timber to finally create a small pitched roof structure for the compost bays of the small holding .
How’s your week going ?
Nick
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HVB UPDATE:
This week has been extremely busy with two families having stayed in our off grid cabin, a boat load of filming for this channel and more action to come as we head into Jubilee weekend 🥳🥳
We will be hosting people up and working at the small holding site .
To follow the smallholding head to Instagram accounts @ Hiddenvalleybuchcraft and @ NickGoldsmithOfficial 👍
The jobs list to include , planting up veg beds, checking on the bee hives, cleaning out the chicken coup, more painting and fencing.
But the main task will be turning an old British military tent frame into a poly tunnel 🙌🤝
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What will you be up to ??
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Preparing the mighty Mk 5 Oven for outdoor cooking action this weekend over the Jubilee celebrations 🥳🥳
Do you have plans for the 4th ? ?
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Some hard work going in this week as we make improvements and upgrades to main camp 🏕
Are you ready for the weekend ?
What’s your plan ?? 🤷♂️
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Head to the HVB Instagram page to see the post that just went up! 👀
As we in the U.K. really start to feel the pinch of the rising cost of living, we share HOW we are preparing the homestead in order reduce the price of our rapidly rising electricity bills and WHY this is a solid investment. 🔥
Forwards Together 🤝
Nick
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SMALL HOLDING / HOMESTEADLIFE UPDATES
Hi all ,
A message to say the best way to keep up to date with all that we have happening behind the scenes day to day at HVB (including the creation of our new smallholding) is to head over to Instagram and type in @ Hiddenvalleybushcraft to see the account 🙌
(Side note today has been mostly book writing ✍️ 📕🧐)
Hope your all well 🤝
Nic
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