Climate Forum
All set up for the quarterly Climate Forum held in Barnstaple Library. Today’s forum focused on local environmental actions which aim to address the climate and ecological emergencies, and Nick […]
Open Day 2025
Our first ever Open Day got off to a good start when the rain stopped, folks arrived and Nick gave an overview on the project to date, and then led […]
Devon County Show
With Nick now living much more locally, he wanted to get the charities name ‘out there’, and he kicked off in a big way with a pitch at the Devon […]
Kittisford Rewilding Project
In early March 2025 we were asked by a landowner to create ponds, scrapes and planted banks on a 4.5 acre field. The soil varied from good clay (for ponds) […]
Cadbury Cottage Rewilding Project
Following a visit to our Roborough fields, we were asked to undertake a similar project on a 10 acre piece of land near Chulmleigh. Work started in mid-January, and completed […]
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 us with […]
Baseline ecological survey
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 us with […]
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 the Fields will […]
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 […]