Headwinds and hope: Tony Juniper on Why Nature Restoration is a Path to Economic Growth
This time we are absolutely delighted to welcome Tony Juniper to the Knepp Wilding Podcast. Tony is well-known to us here at Knepp. A massive supporter of rewilding and an important figure in the conservation world, Tony is currently serving as the Chair of Natural England. In this stimulating conversation, Tony tackles the deepest issues behind our inability to act with the pace and scale needed to address the emergencies of climate change and nature decline. He confronts the idea that economic growth and nature recovery are opposing forces - stressing that if we want a resilient economy into the future, we must restore nature.We also discuss his profound new book, Just Earth, which argues that environmental recovery is inextricably linked with achieving human happiness, economic fairness and social cohesion. Tony says that to achieve this long-term change, we need to heal the massive disconnection between people and the natural world. He sees Knepp as a "real beacon of hope" and a practical demonstration of what can be done.Isabella Tree co-founded the Knepp rewilding project with her husband, Charlie Burrell. She is an award-winning author, including of the best-selling book, Wilding: the return of nature to a British farm, which was made into a major motion picture in 2024.This podcast is produced by The Podcast Coach.Send us a message or leave a commentThe Knepp Wilding Podcast is kindly sponsored by Ecosia, a green search engine that gives 100% of it's profits to the planet. Ecosia has planted 225 million trees to date. Find out more about Knepp on our website and why not follow us on Instagram?
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Rebelling with Integrity: Geetie & Guy Singh-Watson on Food, Farming, and Fairness
Geetie and Guy Singh-Watson are powerhouses of the organic and regenerative food and farming movement. They’re the inspiration behind the Knepp Wilding Kitchen and Market Garden. In this month’s podcast with Isabella Tree, Geetie and Guy vent their frustration with supermarkets, industrial farming, restaurant supply chains and lack of accountability. They explain the thinking behind Riverford Organic Farmers and Geetie’s rigorously ethical pub, The Bull Inn in Totnes - where Isabella’s son Ned Burrell, Executive Chef at the Knepp Wilding Kitchen, began his restaurant career. They may not agree with the landownership of Knepp or want to dive into rewilding themselves but they admit a little bit of Knepp’s magic has rubbed off on them.Isabella Tree co-founded the Knepp rewilding project with her husband, Charlie Burrell. She is an award-winning author, including of the best-selling book, Wilding: the return of nature to a British farm, which was made into a major motion picture in 2024.This podcast is produced by The Podcast Coach.Send us a message or leave a commentThe Knepp Wilding Podcast is kindly sponsored by Ecosia, a green search engine that gives 100% of it's profits to the planet. Ecosia has planted 225 million trees to date. Find out more about Knepp on our website and why not follow us on Instagram?
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Penny’s farewell - fond memories of runaway beavers and sloe carpets
In this very special episode Penny Green officially hands the host’s mic to Isabella Tree.Penny has been behind the Knepp podcast since it launched in 2020 and has been Knepp’s ecologist for a decade. She's moving on for pastures new (in fact, just down the road to the Wiston Estate). In this warm and poignant episode, Isabella asks Penny to take her to the corners of Knepp’s Wildland which meant the most to her over the years. Together they recall the peaks and troughs of her time at Knepp, including capturing fugitive beavers and how nightingale song in lockdown – ringing out without anyone to hear it - inspired the very first episode of the podcast.Isabella Tree co-founded the Knepp rewilding project with her husband, Charlie Burrell. She is an award-winning author, including of the best-selling book, Wilding: the return of nature to a British farm, which was made into a major motion picture in 2024.This podcast is produced by The Podcast Coach.Send us a message or leave a commentThe Knepp Wilding Podcast is kindly sponsored by Ecosia, a green search engine that gives 100% of it's profits to the planet. Ecosia has planted 225 million trees to date. Find out more about Knepp on our website and why not follow us on Instagram?
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Owl Quiet on the Nesting Front
In Owl Quiet on the Nesting Front, Penny Green interviews Matt Phelps, Knepp’s lead ecologist. They’re out on the Wildland checking 22 owl boxes. In this episode, they discuss barn owls’ silent grace and striking beauty… as well as how much people love to investigate their pellets to discover what the owls have had for breakfast!It’s a quiet year for owl breeding. Last autumn’s poor acorn yield spelled tough times for the small mammals who feed on them. That’s translated into a challenging year for owls. But this resilient species will bounce back.Send us a message or leave a commentFind out more about Knepp on our website and why not follow us on Instagram?
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The Plant People Love to Hate
It’s been a bumper summer for ragwort, the plant folks love to hate. In this month’s Knepp Wilding Podcast, Isabella Tree unearths the truth about this spectacular native wildflower with ragwort specialist, Mick Crawley. Is it a toxic killer or a bountiful source of life? And what happens when you pull it up? Could trying to eradicate it actually be helping the plant to proliferate?The Knepp Wilding Podcast is generously supported by Ecosia – the search engine that plants trees and restores nature. All of us at Knepp are now changing our default search engine to Ecosia – and I do recommend you do too. You can help restore the planet from your desk! Find out more at www.ecosia.orgSend us a message or leave a commentThe Knepp Wilding Podcast is kindly sponsored by Ecosia, a green search engine that gives 100% of it's profits to the planet. Ecosia has planted 225 million trees to date. Find out more about Knepp on our website and why not follow us on Instagram?
Join Knepp co-owner Isabella Tree and experience some of the wildlife wonders encountered, the secrets uncovered and the remarkable people who are part of the Knepp Wilding project.
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