Rewilding blog

Signs of Otters on our Lake - Carp and the Necrobiome

Signs of Otters on our Lake – Carp and the Necrobiome

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Our Rewilding Lead, Laura Fairs, shares how carp came to be in our lake, their threat to biodiversity and the ...
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How to help our feathered friends in Winter

How to help our feathered friends in Winter

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Embercombe's Rewilding Lead Laura Fairs shares some tips on how to help our feathered friends during the challenging winter months: ...
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How to rewild on a smaller scale - Online webinar with Rewilding Britain

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

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Watch this recent online webinar with Embercombe's Rewilding Lead Laura Fairs as she joins Rewilding Britain's latest discussion and shares ...
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Rewilding the self and the world - Reflections from our Autumn Rewilding Camp

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

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By Darran Hughes Darran Hughes shares his recent experience of joining Embercombe's Autumn Rewilding Camp as he discovers rewilding is ...
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EmBUGcombe: Building the world's best bug hotel

EmBUGcombe: Building the world’s best bug hotel

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Bug hotels and their benefits to wildlife Our Community Rewilding Days are in full swing, and recently a wonderful group ...
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Rewilding and False Autumn

Rewilding and False Autumn

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by Laura Fairs Here in Devon we are experiencing what is called a ‘false autumn’. This is when the plants ...
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Rewilding and 'messy' landscapes: Why we need messiness in nature

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

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Wild landscapes are messy places, with overgrown and unmown patches of lawn and meadows, unstructured planting and a variety of ...
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Healing the World through Rewilding

Healing the World through Rewilding

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Ashleigh Brown, Co-founder of Ecosystem Restoration Camps and facilitator on Embercombe's Rewilding Camps, shares her experience of our land as ...
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Rewilding Teign Valley

Rewilding Teign Valley

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Join us as we rewild our land and communities in the Teign Valley! Embercombe is looking forward to welcoming all ...
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Seeing through the lens of Rewilding

Seeing through the lens of Rewilding

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By Louise Kear Louise Kear, a Devon-based photographer, shares her passion for photographing nature, whilst visiting our wild land as ...
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New Rewilding Project launched for Communities in the Teign Valley

New Rewilding Project launched for Communities in the Teign Valley

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Embercombe is pleased to announce a new Lottery-funded community rewilding project that will start at the beginning of July, aimed ...
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Rewilding Books

Rewilding Books

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Books to inspire rewilding - of land, of body and of life. By Gabrielle O'Connell There are many rewilding books ...
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regenerative power of storms

The Regenerative Power of Storms

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The wild and wonderful valley of Embercombe has felt the force of the recent storms! People often feel sad about ...
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The Devon Wildland

The Devon Wildland

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Imagine a network of land connected in both the physical landscape and through people who will share experiences, resources and ...
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Final update on pigs rewilding the land at Embercombe

Final update on pigs rewilding the land at Embercombe

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The pigs time on the land has come to an end for this year. A video update on how they ...
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Autumn Rewilding Camp highlights

Autumn Rewilding Camp highlights

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Embercombe Autumn Rewilding Camp - an exploration of nature connection, rewilding ourselves and taking action. Our Autumn rewilding camp was ...
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The ecological role of pigs in Rewilding - An update from our land

The ecological role of pigs in Rewilding – An update from our land

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The pigs at Embercombe have been disrupting and disturbing the land as part of our rewilding action. A few weeks ...
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Rewilding the land with pigs

Rewilding the land with pigs

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Today saw the arrival of 3 pigs to Embercombe as part of our rewilding action on the land. Pigs are ...
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Re-setting the Re_Set button

Re-setting the Re_Set button

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Hot on the heels of our summer rewilding camp, we have recently welcomed a corporate group to Embercombe for a ...
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The Edible Wilderness: Embercombe's Autumn Rewilding Camp

The Edible Wilderness: Embercombe’s Autumn Rewilding Camp

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Join us this Autumn in our next Rewilding Camp on our wild land in Devon for an exploration of rewilding ...
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Embercombe's first Rewilding Camp

Embercombe’s first Rewilding Camp

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A group from across the UK felt the tug of wanting to rewild themselves and the land around them and ...
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The Serpents of Embercombe

The Serpents of Embercombe

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This summer, as part of our rewilding work, we have been setting up as many different surveys and monitoring as ...
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Join in on this year's Big Butterfly Count!

Join in on this year’s Big Butterfly Count!

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The Big Butterfly Count is on! This annual citizen science project encourages people to go outdoors and count butterflies in ...
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Embercombe’s Rewilding Plans and new Rewilding Lead

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The land at Embercombe is special. For over 20 years Embercombe has run programmes, camps and events, close to the ...
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