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Welcome to the Wilder Podcast! Co-hosted by Chloe and Tom, we explore topics including "rewilding", sustainable living and climate change, whilst documenting our attempts to apply these principles on our 80 acres in rural Monmouthshire. We speak with experts who are passionate about understanding, protecting and restoring the natural world, to the benefit of us all. Whether that’s a professor of rewilding, a micro green start-up or charity founders, we explore their stories in a way that’s accessible to all. Alongside their expertise, we also share our journey of the Grange Project - where we are learning through doing and...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Wilder Podcast connects restoration science to the awkward, revealing decisions that arise when people, livestock, water and wildlife share a landscape.
Wilder Podcast treats ecological restoration as work carried out among animals, watercourses, food production and neighbouring communities. Chloe and Tom alternate guest conversations with candid accounts of their own land project, keeping large questions about biodiversity and…
Pigs, visitors, and an improvised cuddle strategy: you get the messy part of rewilding too.
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A systems-minded conversation about changing the underlying model instead of just treating the symptoms.
Wilder Podcast treats a familiar problem with enough focus to keep it grounded: if climate, ecology, inequality, and mental health are all tangled together, where does change actually start?
A grounded look at how land stewardship becomes shared power.
Chris Blake's conversation with Wilder makes community land stewardship feel practical rather than abstract: local people, a trusted local organization, and public bodies are shown working together to shape land for the long term.
A practical, exploratory case for making rewilding feel like common sense.
Wilder starts with a slightly frazzled introduction, then settles into a discussion about making rewilding mainstream and linking it to climate stabilisation and better wellbeing.
A candid, practical conversation that treats rivers as part of everyday life.
Wilder opens with a loose catch-up before settling into a discussion of rivers under strain. Tom and Chloe trade jokes about being late and note how much is changing at the project, then James Wallace of River Action joins the conversation to unpack sewage overflows, treated…
A grounded rewilding conversation focused on practical land decisions.
Tom and Chloe begin with a full Grange project update, then bring in Helen of Make It Wild, which gives the episode a firm sense of place before it moves into nature protection and restoration.
A grounded conversation about nature connection that opens into history, systems, and practice.
The episode is less a tidy nature chat than a wide-ranging look at nature connection and why that relationship can feel so strained. It starts with Chloe and Tom situating the project and their own roles, then moves into the agricultural revolution and the system-wide changes…
A calm conversation about food, land, and personal change.
Gaz Oakley is framed as a chef who has moved into homesteading, and the conversation follows that shift toward growing food, paying closer attention to ingredients, and finding a steadier sense of well-being.
A broad, practical look at polycrisis, power, and the actions attached to them.
Professor Mike Berners-Lee joins Chloe and Tom for a conversation that widens the frame beyond rewilding and regenerative food production. The episode centers on the polycrisis, the role of power, and where opportunity can still be found inside a serious challenge.
European plant wisdom, slowly gathered.
Funny, fervent botany for tree-curious minds.
Close listening from the living world.
Jane Davidson, architect of Wales' groundbreaking Wellbeing of Future Generations Act, explains how her childhood in Zimbabwe witnessing racial injustice shaped her mission to create fairer policies.
Wilder Podcast episode 24 brings in Alicia from the Welsh Beaver Project, where she explains why beavers are native to Britain, how they were hunted to extinction, and why Wales is trying to bring them back.
Wilder Podcast episode 42 brings Tom Johnston of We Are Nature Based into a conversation about natural flood management and nature guardianship, with Tom framing both as “restorative practice.” Tom explains how leaky woody structures, including the installations at Grange Project, slow water, capture debris, and can add catchment-scale storage comparable to “an additional Brecon swimming pool.” He also connects the method to drought resilience, saying farmers called him after a long dry spell because their streams had gone dry for the first time.
Chloe and Tom interview Rob Penn from Stump Up for Trees about the role of tree planting in addressing climate and ecological crises, focusing on upland wood pasture in Wales, bracken management, and the broader benefits of trees for biodiversity and timber security.
Matt Walpole, CEO of Cornwall Wildlife Trust, explains the ambitious Tor to Shore project that connects mountaintop rewilding with marine conservation across an entire watershed.
Reviving local farming systems in rural Wales for food security
In this episode, hosts Chloe and Tom interview Claire Hill, a regenerative farmer, about her work at Plankton Farm.
James Shooter, host of Rewild podcast, explains how he and his wife sold their house, bought a 20-year-old motorhome, and took two children and a dog around Europe to record 18 episodes.
Wilder Podcast episode 50 focuses on Tyr Natyr, the Welsh rewilding charity, with Gwenny Jenkins-Jones and Eben Mews discussing why Wales needs a flagship rewilding site.
Wilder Podcast episode 25 centres on rewilding training at Embercombe in Devon, where Laura Fares describes a nine-month programme with seven modules and three in-person residentials.
Wilder Podcast episode 32 features Jyothi Banerjee, co-founder of North Star Transition, describing how a systems approach can tackle climate, biodiversity, health, water, and inequality together.
Wilder Podcast episode 37 features Alistair Scott of the Global Rewilding Alliance, recorded around World Rewilding Day 2025.
Wilder Podcast episode 44 features Gaz Oakley, a chef turned homesteader, talking about leaving kitchens, building a 1.8 million-subscriber YouTube audience, and moving to the countryside during Covid.
Tom and Chloe open with an apology for being late.
Wilder Podcast episode 35 combines a detailed Grange project update with a conversation with Helen Neve of Make It Wild, a North Yorkshire nature-restoration business.
Wilder Podcast episode 28 with Simon Roper of Ambios focuses on technology in rewilding, from GPS and GIS to drones, camera traps, Merlin, and AI-based training.
Wilder Podcast episode 46 features Jo Roberts, CEO of the Wilderness Foundation, discussing how wilderness can heal, teach, and reconnect people to nature.
Wilder Podcast episode 36 speaks with Emily and Alex, the co-founders of Grazing Management, about conservation grazing, biodiversity, and building a business around both.
Wilder Podcast episode 34 features Simon Whitfield, described by the hosts as their “tiny home guru,” explaining how he has lived off-grid in tiny homes, mostly on wheels, for his whole adult life.
Wilder Podcast episode 48 centers on Tom Clark and Alex Brocklesby from the National Trust in Purbeck, who have spent about seven and a half years working on community engagement, access, and children’s work.
Wilder Podcast episode 43 features Ben Goldsmith on rewilding his South Somerset farm, his podcast Rewilding the World, and the business case for natural capital.
Tony Juniper argues in Wilder Podcast Ep.
Tom and Chloe review 18 months of Grange project progress organized by four pillars: restoring nature, producing food, contributing locally, and connecting people.
Chloe and Tom interview Chris Blake about community land stewardship, exploring how local communities can gain control over land through models like co-production.
Chloe and Tom explore the concept of nature connection, discussing its definition, measurement, and importance for mental and planetary health.
Chloe and Tom interview Professor Mike Berners-Lee about the polycrisis, exploring its interconnected challenges like climate change, biodiversity loss, and geopolitical instability.
Tom Constable opens this Wilder Podcast bonus episode because Monmouth has just taken severe flooding, and he brings back Tom Johnson from We Are Nature Based to explain what happened.
Wilder Podcast episode 26 speaks with James Hitchcock, CEO of Radnorshire Wildlife Trust, about what the Wildlife Trusts do across the UK and Wales.
Chloe and Tom recap 12 months of their rewilding project in Monmouthshire, covering their approach, physical changes like tree planting and pig introductions, challenges with grants and planning, and future plans for education and revenue through corporate partnerships and tiny homes.
Matt Swarbrick traces how Henbant in northwest Wales grew from an 80-acre former quarry into a mixed farm with ponds, wet willow, sitka spruce, orchards, and a 300-hen flock.