From an early age, Joe felt the quiet call of the wild—the pull of the hilltops, deep woods, and the spaces in between where something ancient still stirs.
Growing up in a busy town on the south coast of the UK, he moved between two worlds. One of structure and expectation, and the other of wind, tides, curiosity and wandering. It was in the margins— exploring the edges of the landscape—that he began to listen, and to follow a path that felt like his own.
As he stepped into his early twenties, that path widened out into the world. He travelled across continents by bicycle, crossed mountain ranges by motorbike, lived and worked in remote communities, and slept in wild places where the line between human and animal, civilisation and wilderness, begins to blur.
These were not just adventures, but a searching - a quiet, persistent question about how to live, and what it truly means to belong.
The turning point came unexpectedly, as these things often do. A chance meeting with Thomas Schorr-Kon of Trackways Survival, opened a different kind of doorway. It was through this teaching that something fell into place. The years of movement, of seeking and searching, began to make sense, and the sporadic dots on the map of his heart began to connect.
Through the learning of ancestral skills, Joe found a deeper rhythm. Working with fire, stone, wood and observation, he began to recall something that felt both ancient and yet very much alive. What he remembered was not something new, but something long held within us all—a way of being that is rooted, aware, and connected.
A way of being that is natural, available, and remembered from deep within.
About Joe
Training, Qualifications and EXPERIENCE
- Throughout Joe's journey into traditional skills and deep nature connection he has completed a number of courses and workshops. Most notably the 7 month Intensive Survival Course by Trackways under the expert guidance of Thomas Schorr-Kon, teaching in the coyote style. This teaching follows in the direct lineage of the late Tom Brown Jnr (author of The Tracker) and his mentor Stalking Wolf – a Lakota native whose life’s calling was to hand down the teachings of the old ways, to again become children of the earth.
- Trained with Jewels Wingfield deep in the Forest of Dean on a year course learning the ways of nature connection and community belonging.
- Studied under the expert guidance of master flint knapper Will Lord, supporting Joe's own craft in exploring this ancient skill.
- Completed 3 survival quests - these are multi day trips (typically 3 to 4 days) in the wilderness, surviving with just the bare essentials, a blanket, a knife and a handcrafted wooden bowl.
- Graduate of ‘Wildman – Ancestors and Brother’s’ Men’s Rites of Passage with Darren Deojee and Mark Taylor.
- He is an active member of the Isle of Wight Coppice Group - a group of woodland workers, landowners and traditional skills professionals and enthusiasts who promote the sustainable management of woodlands here on the Island. As part of this group Joe demonstrates traditional skills at shows throughout the year.
- Joe considers the natural world his foremost and greatest teacher. His apprenticeship to the wild is a lifelong journey.
- DBS checked, First-Aid Trained & Fully Insured.