Have you seen people fishing on bridges in the spring and the autumn? They are probably fishing Baltic Herring, which on good days can be a really good catch! This type of fishing is also…
Fishing from the bridge
Category: Wilderness skills
Building an insect hotel for the garden
Building an insect hotel was my next little construction project. If you have a garden, now is the perfect time to build your insect hotel or bee hotel for the summer. We are still missing…
Building a proper lean-to shelter
Building a lean-to shelter has been a fun construction project that took the entire spring last year. It was a priviledge to take part in this, and I hope the lean-to shelter will serve its…
Duckboards show you the way to nature
Duckboards are wooden walkways that help you to walk in bogs or over muddy areas along nature trails. There are about 500 kilometers of duckboards in public nature trails in Finland. Duckboards can be exciting…
Out in the Nature Quiz – How well do you recognize traces of ice age?
Finnish nature is full of traces of the ice age. During the last great glacial period Finland was situated at the centre of the area covered by the Scandinavian ice sheet. This local glaciation is…
Ospreys and marshlands at Valkmusa National Park
All I knew about Valkmusa National Park before parking my car at the start of a circular route on a late autumn afternoon was that it was in southeastern Finland. That's it. By chance, I…
Out in the Nature Challenge 2020
Happy New Year! We would like to invite you to take part in Out in the Nature Challenge 2020! We want to encourage everyone to spend more time in the nature. Why? Because being out…
All you need to know about moose hunting in Finland
Moose hunting in Finland can be a fun hobby for some, but many people hunt moose because it is an important source of food and to keep the moose population limited in order to minimize…
Cloudberries are the real gold of Lapland
Cloudberry (rubus chamaemorus) is a native herb in Finland, growing in bogs, meadows and marshes. The berries are famous delicacy in Finland, known as hilla, lakka and suomuurain in Finnish. A beloved child has many…
Thinning forest in a traditional way
We Finns live in and of forests, and forests cover more than 70 % of the land. Finland is in fact the most forested country in Europe, if we compare the proportional share of forest…