{"podcast":{"title":"Wilder Podcast","slug":"wilder-podcast-6446398","podcast_index_feed_id":6446398,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/wilder-podcast/","website_url":"https://www.grangeproject.co.uk/wilder-podcast","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/ccf0843a-c305-4861-bfa7-bc581db486e3/CB9C92SZxcDje7YTXgykn7Ne.jpg","author":"Grange Project","episode_count":56,"summary":"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 psycholog…","last_synced_at":"2026-06-12T00:17:40.448358+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/wilder-podcast-6446398"},"episode":{"title":"Ep. 052: Three Years In: The Honest Truth About Rewilding 80 Acres","slug":"ep-052-three-years-in-the-honest-truth-about-rewilding-80-acres","published_at":"2026-03-26T15:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/wilder-podcast-6446398/ep-052-three-years-in-the-honest-truth-about-rewilding-80-acres","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/wilder-podcast-6446398","url":"https://www.grangeproject.co.uk/wilder-podcast","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/01ea92eb-b768-498a-89ee-22f5e43fa491.mp3","summary":"No 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 quite a lot has happened. 4,000 trees planted. A tiny forest that nearly died twice and is now over six feet tall. A market garden. A distillery in the barn. A charity. Four schools through the gate in one week. And an otter, which felt significant. This is the third update episode - episode 9 was the start, episode 29 was one year in. This one's the most honest of the three. What We Cover Restoring More Nature The trees, the dragon's nests, and what happens when you prepare the ground properly Why the tiny forest survived a drought, deer, and voles - and is now extraordinary The wood meadow: a rare habitat, hand-scythed by the community, and why it matters The pond that failed, then gave us house martins, a kestrel, and an otter The pig situation (it got complicated) The cow debate: October, says Chloe. Tom is less sure Breeding birds: double the species recorded between 2024 and 2025 Naturfa Pathway: one of four sites selected across Wales by the Welsh Government Producing More Food From silage grassland to 50-100+ varieties of fruit and veg - and why that matters for food security The cathedral polytunnel, the duck pond, the new orchard, and chickens planned for under the trees Courses launching this summer: market gardening, agroforestry, mushroom growing, seed saving and more What it actually means when the food you grew feeds the people who came to help grow it Contributing to the Local Economy From two tractor drivers twenty days a year to six people working on site Wilder Spirits: pre-orders open 2 April. The first spirit distilled on a rewilding site in Wales, in a paper bottle Platfo…","meta_description":"No 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 p…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4328,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/wilder-podcast-6446398/episodes/ep-052-three-years-in-the-honest-truth-about-rewilding-80-acres/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/wilder-podcast-6446398/ep-052-three-years-in-the-honest-truth-about-rewilding-80-acres.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}