View Post

On Softening and Surrendering – Experiences from The Journey

By Ian Wilkinson Ian Wilkinson shares his recent experience of the gift of softening and surrender on Embercombe's flagship personal development programme The Journey in March 2023. In recent years I have wandered lost in the wilderness trying to find my purpose and meaning. An old friend has told me time and time again - if you know who you ...
View Post

The healing, discovering and empowering journey of The Journey

By Darran Hughes Darran Hughes shares his recent experience of healing, discovery and empowerment on Embercombe's flagship personal development programme The Journey in November 2022. “I invite you to spend some time exploring that…”, were the words Stefan gently spoke, as I sat alone on the edge of a roaring fire late one evening. I looked at him, knowing in my ...
View Post

How to help our feathered friends in Winter

Embercombe's Rewilding Lead Laura Fairs shares some tips on how to help our feathered friends during the challenging winter months: This can be the most difficult time of year for small wild birds. Prolonged days of frosty weather restricts their food supply as the bugs and beasties they feed on retreat, in order to protect themselves from the frost, in ...
View Post

How to rewild on a smaller scale – Online webinar with Rewilding Britain

Watch this recent online webinar with Embercombe's Rewilding Lead Laura Fairs as she joins Rewilding Britain's latest discussion and shares learnings on how to rewild a piece of land on a smaller scale here at Embercombe in Devon. In this webinar, Rewilding Britain welcomed two Network members, Kate Morley from Hill Crest in Devon and Laura, to talk about how ...
View Post

Rewilding the self and the world – Reflections from our Autumn Rewilding Camp

By Darran Hughes Darran Hughes shares his recent experience of joining Embercombe's Autumn Rewilding Camp as he discovers rewilding is not just about the land and plants and animals but about rewilding our souls, our relationships, our communities and ideally our culture.  It’s hard to imagine it’s been nearly a decade since George Monbiot first released his best-selling book “Feral”, ...
View Post

New Wellness Days at Embercombe

Join us for a new series of free Wellness Days in our Medicine Wheel Garden and Community Orchard for communities in the Teign Valley and around Devon. We will be restoring our heritage apple orchard and traditional medicine garden from October 2022 as we explore the world of wild medicine and plants throughout the four seasons together, and will be …

View Post

EmBUGcombe: Building the world’s best bug hotel

Bug hotels and their benefits to wildlife Our Community Rewilding Days are in full swing, and recently a wonderful group of volunteers from our local community gathered together to help build (in our opinion) the most beautiful EmBUGcombe bug hotel on 3 September, also joined by a few of our Autumn Experience weekend participants. The best bug hotels are eco-friendly, ...
View Post

Rewilding and False Autumn

by Laura Fairs Here in Devon we are experiencing what is called a ‘false autumn’. This is when the plants around us begin to flow into the part of their lifecycle that we normally associate with the autumn months of late September, October and November. In autumn, we recognise the leaves on trees start to change colour, the fruit, berries ...
View Post

Rewilding and ‘messy’ landscapes: Why we need messiness in nature

Wild landscapes are messy places, with overgrown and unmown patches of lawn and meadows, unstructured planting and a variety of leaf litter and dead branches, essentially everything human hands try to manage, control and tame into a sense of order and aesthetic appeal. This idea of “messy chaos” runs so counter to our idea of what a landscape should look ...
View Post

Transforming From Caterpillar To Butterfly: Experiences from The Journey

Transforming From Caterpillar To Butterfly: A personal journey into Shaman Doorways, Medicine Walks and Authentic Leadership from Embercombe’s The Journey programme By Simon Blackler Many moons ago, some 9 years and 3 months to be precise, I embarked on somewhat of a baptism of fire onto my shamanic pathway. Last weekend I completed a Shaman’s Doorway course with Northern Drum, …