Devon Rewilding Network Guided Walk
On Friday 23rd June, just over three years since buying the site, Nick Benge led a guided walk around the two rewilding fields in Roborough. The walk was organised by […]
Christmas 2020
On Thursday 9th July, a team of 12 ecologists from Clarkson & Woods Ecological Consultancy carried out a comprehensive ecological survey of our two fields at Roborough. This will provide […]
Baseline ecological survey
© Image courtesy of Clarkson & Woods On Thursday 9th July, a team of 12 ecologists from Clarkson & Woods Ecological Consultancy carried out a comprehensive ecological survey of our […]
Our website is (a)live!
A month’s hard work has paid off, and we can stop handing out rough sketches and word documents because now we have a website to share our story through! Please […]
Friends of the fields
Now you can keep up to date with the latest news and progress of the project by becoming a Friend of the Fields. By joining our mailing list, Friends of […]
Campis florum – field of flowers
One of the difficulties with creating wildflower meadows is how to create low nutrient conditions so that grasses, docks and nettles don’t take over. These are all valuable plants in […]
Our logo
We are currently working on a logo for the project and the favourite just now is a dormouse with brambles. Hazel dormice are threatened in the UK but there are […]
The sale goes through!
It’s official…the paperwork has come through and the purchase is confirmed…hooraaaah!!
The whole world goes into lockdown
A global pandemic has arrived and the whole world has gone into lockdown… except for the birds, the bees, the dormice, and the deer (oh deer!) who wondered for a […]
Nick and Annie visit the site
Nick has always had a romantic attachment to Devon, largely through an inordinate fondness for Tarka The Otter by Henry Williamson, so, when Annie and Nick visited Devon in February […]