Wilder Podcast
by Grange Project
Ep. 058: How Climate Change Is Reshaping the UK's Birds, With the…
About this podcast
Chloe is a clinical psychologist. Tom is a former British Army officer. In 2023 they bought 80 acres of intensive farmland in rural Monmouthshire and started rewilding it. The Wilder Podcast is the conversation that came next, and it has grown beyond the land.
Every fortnight, we talk to the people thinking seriously about the systems we have built, and the ones we need next. Rewilding scientists and conservation founders. Regenerative farmers and food security experts. Economists, ecologists, psychologists, community builders, the occasional well-placed contrarian. The connecting thread is simple: a culture disconnected from nature is at the root of the polycrisis, and reconnection is the foundation for almost everything else.
Alongside the interviews we share the honest version of our own journey at the Grange Project. The wins, the false starts, and the muddy reality of trying to turn a former silage farm into a mosaic of habitats, with no formal background in ecology.
Topics range across rewilding and nature recovery, food systems and resilience, the economics of land, community and connection, and the mental health case for time spent wilder. Chloe brings a clinical psychology lens to all of it. Tom brings the questions of someone building it in real time.
What you get: evidence-led conversations on nature, systems and wellbeing, and a clear-eyed look at what is actually working right now.
Episodes
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- Ep. 058: How Climate Change Is Reshaping the UK's Birds, With the RSPB and BTO · 1 h 14 min · Season 1 Episode 58When James Pearce-Higgins was a boy in Suffolk, the cascading song of the willow warbler meant Easter was on its way. He lives back in Suffolk now, and this summer he heard two…
- Ep. 057: Right to Roam - Who Is the Countryside Actually For? With Jon Moses · 55 min · Season 1 Episode 57Jon Moses lives five minutes from the River Monnow. He had lived beside it for twenty years and barely knew it, because almost none of it could legally be reached. In the first…
- Ep. 056: Wildfires - What's Actually Burning, and What Can Be Done · 57 min · Season 1 Episode 56A mountain has been burning 13 miles from the Grange Project for two weeks. Wales has just gone into drought after receiving 8% of its average July rainfall, the driest July in…
- Ep. 055: Together for Good - The Power of Community Climate Action · 59 min · Season 1 Episode 55Helen Meech is Executive Director of the Climate Coalition, the UK's largest group of organisations dedicated to action on people, climate and nature. Over 130 member…
- Ep. 054: The Psychology of Species Reintroductions with Pete Cairns · 1 h 1 min · Season 1 Episode 54Episode summary We see Pete Cairns as rewilding royalty. Thirty years in the conservation conversation, co-founder and former CEO of SCOTLAND: The Big Picture, and now host of…
- Ep. 053: Who Really Wins and Loses in the Food System? With Sue Pritchard · 1 h 6 min · Season 1 Episode 53The invisible forces shaping what you eat, why they stay hidden, and what it actually takes to change them. Sue Pritchard is CEO of the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission…
- Ep. 052: Three Years In: The Honest Truth About Rewilding 80 Acres · 1 h 12 min · Season 1 Episode 52No guest this week. Just Tom and Chloe with a drink, a lot to catch up on, and roughly an hour to get through it all. It's been 18 months since the last proper project update and…
- Ep. 051: WTF is the Polycrisis and why should I care? · 1 h 1 min · Season 1 Episode 51In this conversation, we update you on two big milestones for the Grange Project, the launch of the Welsh Rewilding Alliance and our OECM recognition, before sitting down with…
- Ep. 050: The Future of Rewilding in Cymru (Wales) - Tir Natur · 45 min · Season 1 Episode 50Chloe and Tom speak with Gwenni Jenkins-Jones and Eben Muse from Tir Natur, a Welsh rewilding charity working to establish Wales’s largest rewilding site. The conversation…
- Ep. 049: Regenerative Agriculture Changing How We Grow Food · 51 min · Season 1 Episode 49Tom and Chloe sit down with Clare from Planton farm to explore what regenerative agriculture really means. Drawing on Claire’s journey from the conventional food industry into…
- Ep. 048: Wilder Purbeck - Connecting a Community to the "Super National Nature Reserve" · 1 h 8 min · Season 1 Episode 48In this pre‑Christmas episode, hosts Chloe and Tom sit down with Tom Clark and Alex Brocklesby from the National Trust at Purbeck. Purbeck is one of the UK’s most biodiverse…
- Ep. 047: Monmouth Floods Discussion · 31 min · Season 1 Episode 47Guest: Tom Johnstone – Founder of We Are Nature Based Host: Tom Constable (co‑founder of The Grange Project) Episode overview In this special episode, Tom Constable talks to…
- Ep. 046: Healing in the Wild with Jo Robert, CEO Wilderness Foundation UK · 1 h 1 min · Season 1 Episode 46In episode 46 of The Wilder Podcast, hosts Chloe and Tom explore how wild places heal people and ecosystems. Their guest is Jo Roberts, CEO of the Wilderness Foundation UK. Jo…
- Ep. 045: Community Land Stewardship with Chris Blake · 58 min · Season 1 Episode 45This week on the Wilder Podcast, we sit down with Chris Blake to explore how communities can steward land through collaboration, long-term vision and trust between local people…
- Ep. 044: The Quiet Revolution of Growing Your Own with Gaz Oakley · 58 min · Season 1 Episode 44In this episode, Tom and Chloe sit down with chef-turned-homesteader Gaz Oakley to explore his remarkable journey from the high-pressure kitchens of Cardiff and London to a more…
- Ep. 043: From Loss to Life - Ben Goldsmith & Natural Capital · 1 h 4 min · Season 1 Episode 43In this episode of the Wilder Podcast, we sit down with Ben Goldsmith, financier, conservationist, and passionate rewilding advocate, to explore the deeply personal and global…
- Ep. 042: Restorative Practices for a Wilder World · 1 h 7 min · Season 1 Episode 42In this episode of the Wilder Podcast, Chloe and Tom discuss the recent opening of the Grange Hub and explore two significant restorative practices: Natural Flood Management…
- Ep. 041: The Lost Art of Nature Connection · 59 min · Season 1 Episode 41Summary In this episode of The Wilder Podcast, hosts Chloe and Tom explore the concept of nature connection, discussing its importance for mental health and wellbeing, the…
- Ep. 040: Rivers in Crisis – A Conversation with James Wallace · 54 min · Season 1 Episode 40What happens when we treat our rivers like sewers, ignore regulation, and allow polluters to profit from destruction? In this milestone 40th episode of The Wilder Podcast, we sit…
- Ep. 039: The Act That Could Change the World · 59 min · Season 1 Episode 39In this episode we speak with the inspirational Jane Davidson, the former government minister who proposed the groundbreaking Wellbeing of Future Generations Act. We discuss how…







