WattleCraft

Bushcraft • Rewilding Skills • Nature Connection Practices • Workshops • Campout Programs • Earthen Adornments

Sally (creator and founder of WattleCraft) is a wilderness guide, earth crafter, rewilding skills and nature connection mentor. Sally has spent a great deal of her life living simply in the element of wild places and ancestral connection. Learning, practicing and sharing the old ways of earthen craft and rewilding skills. Her deepest passion being our innate relationship with nature through craft

as a way of empowerment, resourcefulness, creativity and a deep sense of belonging. Her unique offerings of bushcraft are gathered and woven in reciprocal relation with land and spirit, carrying a story embedded in earth kinship. Our relationship with the natural world is part of who we are – by embracing it, we can cultivate an inner wellspring of personal resilience and resource, that gives a guiding ember into life’s pathway with nature as ally. Wattle Craft gives our profound respect and love for all Indigenous communities around the world. We acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land, of ancestors and elders – past and present, on which our programs take place. with a deep reverence for indigenous culture, connection and ways, may we continue to give back with reverence and reciprocity. Wattle Craft acknowledges that survival skills are a global knowledge bank held by humans from all races and countries. We acknowledge our Scottish, Irish, European and American ancestral lineages of earth-based living skills. Primitive skills are the original survival skills that all humans once used to live in harmony with the earth. Wattle Craft's practices and programs help to share these skills and keep their power alive in the modern day.

29/04/2026

Autumn carvings 🍂

25/03/2026

• sweet little foraging basket •
woven with nz flax, red hot poker and raffia

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harvests of roadside hawthorn berries and many more earthly gifts this autumn season

24/03/2026

Last year’s Campout 🌿 enriching moments sharing in good company while learning new skills, deepening in relationship with nature and our innate selves.
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Our next gathering is only 3 weeks away with few spaces left - Bush Skills Campout

Gathered round the fire, sleeping under the stars, ancestral practices have a way of merging us in a mutual space of remembrance, simplicity and belonging.

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Grateful to have my father backing me up sharing his long lived knowledge and experience, my brother Dan cooking up on the fire for everyone, for friend’s support and the that magic grows. Special thanks to Damian for creating and tending this amazing bush camp space in which our gathering took place, for the support, ease and beauty.
Thanks to everyone who came and was part of this unique synergy!
and thanks to Rynhardt for capturing these happy memories

17/03/2026

Shelter Building among the stringy bark and tea tree forest. Many hands coming together collecting materials and forming our lean-to shelter. Sharing conversations around elements of wilderness, reading landscape, navigation and gaining sense in the bush.
This is always a lot of fun!

Looking forward to our next one 🌿 Bush Skills Campout is only 4 weeks away with spots filling up quick.
10-12th April, Trentham Vic

25/02/2026

• elements of land •
gathered, woven and forged

17/02/2026

Looking forward to sharing another enriching weekend circled around the fire, delving into bushcraft and rewilding practices! 🌿
This is a small gathering and program intended to bring folks together on the land, sharing in empowering hands-on skills and kindred connection, to disconnect from the modern world and remember what it is to be human.
Camping under the stars among beautiful bushland sanctuary on private property just past Woodend area, 1.5hr from Melbourne CBD.

All event info and booking links here
https://www.facebook.com/share/1F5Sww7xfX/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Come gather!

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05/02/2026

Upcoming Bushcraft Days locally in Cottles Bridge, Vic! Looking forward to sharing these ways with folks slowing down on the land and getting connected with our hands.

Coil Weaving Workshop
Spoon Carving Workshop
Twining Weaving Workshop
Riverside Bushcraft Day (free)

🌿 • Two types of weaving techniques, coil and twining, using different wild harvested plants, processing methods and styles of weave.
🌿 • Day of Spoon Carving
🌿 • Community day to come along riverside, bring something crafty your working on, a skill you want to practice or chat about, or simply to come hang out with other like minded folks among rewilding interests.
Whether you’ve been to a workshop or program with us before, or you’re curious to come connect.
These will be an ongoing free day over the months to come, to gather around and keep the inspiration alive.

Looking forward to seeing some new and familiar faces!

with warmth,
Sally 🍃

22/07/2025

Lovely Sunday Weaving in circle by the fire and winter sun 🌿 It’s beautiful to witness the glowing joys that arise in others from doing earth craft, making something with our hands in simple and gentle ways ~ and this time seeing reflective progress from a returning weaver!

Thank you all for coming and connections shared, it’s truly enriching both ways.

02/07/2025

Earthcraft, knowledge and skills workshops on this month in Healesville area, Vic
These workshops are for those who want to delve into practical and rhythmic skills of land based living, bushcraft and ancestral ways along with other like minded folks.

🌱 Edible Weeds Walk and Balm Making Workshop
🌿 Weaving Day
🪵 Spoon Carving Workshop

Full info and bookings via event links above
Hope to see you there!

With warmth from winters hearth,
Sally

WattleCraft

30/04/2025

Our Bush Skills Rewilding Weekend last month. Gathered around the fire, learning new skills and shared knowledge, bushcrafts, ecology, connecting, camping and re-attuning among this lush nestled landscape.

Thank you to everyone who came and was part of the synergy! What a happy bunch of humans!
Many embers were stoked inside and out 🔥 as happens when good folks come together and share in a genuine, earth centric way.
Ancestral practices seem to have a way of merging us in a mutual space of remembrance, simplicity and belonging.
It was an honour to have my father present, for his extension of life lived wisdoms and for my brother cooking up locally grown and hunted food over the hearth.

Some words from participants so far -
“Feeling super recharged, and feeling a regenerated sense of self after spending time on the land with our unique lovely group. I was totally in awe of the genuine connections I made from just a 2-night camp out, and the conversations & quality banter ‘round the fire. Other than the social connections, a personal highlight for me was the cordage making.” - Karinda

🌿 Next one will be running in Spring time!
with a few varied offerings in the works

Thank you for having us Wild Ridge Farm in the peaceful bushcamp space and for all that you’re locally doing to regenerate and care for the land there on wurundjeri country.
Thanking the land for holding us, may we continue to give back with presence and by practicing rights ways.

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Hurstbridge, VIC

Telephone

+61432039033

Website

http://www.etsy.com/au/shop/WattleCrafts

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