WHAT IS BUSHCRAFT?
It can be learnt as easily in St Ouen as in the Serengeti. By Harry Matthews of Jersey Bushcraft When people hear the word ‘bushcraft’ or ‘survival skills’ they often picture vast forests, endless tundra, or some distant wilderness where survival is a matter of life and death. Yet bushcraft is not confined to remote […]
ACCESS TO THE COUNTRYSIDE
ACCESS to the countryside – it is a theme that emerges regularly in Jersey, just as it does, writ large, in the UK. Lucky are those Islanders who, through land ownership, or with the permission of a friendly landowner or farmer, can remove themselves from the roads and make use of private property to stroll, […]
OBITUARY: LAWRENCE CARTER
LAWRENCE CARTER, who has died aged 88, was a former president of the Jersey Farmers Union, who had a great love of the sea and for fishing. His presidency of the JFU from 1990 to 1992 was at a time when Government support for farming was decreasing. The industry was also concerned that too much […]
A YEW BEAUTY
By John Michel, ‘Tree Advocate’ at Jersey Trees for Life. Reprinted courtesy of the JEP. Standing stoically in the cemetery in front of St Clement’s Church is one of Jersey’s best-known trees, a European yew (Taxus baccata) estimated to have been planted around 1700. For context, that’s seven years before Scotland and England united, when […]
JERSEY HERITAGE FAMILY DAY ON SATURDAY 21 MARCH
A new series of family-friendly events that combine trails, crafts and activities themed around the changing seasons are on offer this year to visitors at Jersey Heritage’s castles and museums. Four ‘Family Days’ will take place during 2026 and will mark the move from spring to summer, autumn and winter. The first event is ‘Family […]
THE DEATH AND AFTERLIFE OF A TREE
In Storm Ciarán, the big storm in November 2023, Richard Le Quesne lost a big oak tree, which fell across his pond at Beau Desert Farm, St Saviour. In 2025, it was removed from the pond by Jonathan Le Maistre Tree Surgery, and cut into big chunks. Richard then gave the timber to the National […]