Begin where you are.
A community for people who want to help regenerate the living world — and are ready to begin in their own place. No land, no farm, no training required.
If this is you
You care — and it has never felt like enough
You already feel the world unravelling. In the bird numbers, the strange weather, the emptied-out high street, the soil that blows or washes away. You have changed how you shop, signed the things, sat in the meetings.
And underneath it there is a quieter, more exhausting feeling: that none of it is shifting much, and that caring this hard, mostly on your own, has started to wear a groove in you. Most of us were never handed anything real to do with that love — anywhere to put it, anyone to do it alongside, any ground of our own to begin on.
That is the gap Wilderculture Circle exists to close.
What you'll find inside
A body of work, and a community doing it alongside you
It is not a library to finish or a feed to keep up with. It is a living relationship with the work, and with the people doing it in their own places.
- The seasonal letters — Cags's rooting-to-place writing from the Highlands, the Lake District and the island of Lismore, eight or more times a year.
- The Bioregional Mind course — the twelve principles, and a way of learning to read any place, from a garden to a valley, as a living system.
- Regional groups — others near you, with local groups forming as members step forward to convene them.
- The turning of the year — the eight festivals marked together, and a cultural and folkloric thread for those who want it.
- Wilder Living — growing, orchards, home and settlement, raising children, food and the body, at the scale anyone can begin today.
- And, when you're ready, the deeper path — Rooting to Place, a year-long journey into your own landscape.
You won't be doing it alone
Part of something already underway
Behind the Circle is real work in real places — active and developing across six upland regions, from the Cairngorms to the Lake District fells to the islands of the west, alongside the farming communities who manage that land.
When you join, you become part of a growing community of citizens taking the same patterns into their own places: a market town in the Pennines, a back garden in the suburbs, a croft in the Hebrides. Bioregional regeneration happens everywhere, done by the people who live there. Your place included.
A different way to belong
Not a fee. Not a donation. A way of being in the work.
Most environmental membership asks one thing of you — your money, so that someone else can protect something, somewhere, on your behalf. You get a magazine, and the comfort of knowing good work is being done at a distance. Those organisations matter, and we are glad they exist.
This is a different shape. You don't join Wilderculture Circle to fund work you'll watch from outside. You join because you are doing the work too. Your membership helps keep the deeper regeneration going in the uplands — but you are not a donor to it. You are part of it.
How membership works
Pay what you can to be part of the work
Every member receives everything — all the spaces, all the entry-level courses, the seasonal writing, the whole community. The tier you choose doesn't buy more access. It simply sets what you contribute.
Concession
£30
a year
For students and anyone for whom the standard rate would be a barrier. Self-declared, no questions asked.
Be the first to knowSupporter
£150
a year
For those able to give more, to help keep the work open to everyone.
Be the first to knowA Patron level (£500+) is available by conversation. Membership opens later this year — nothing is taken until it does, and you'll be told first.
Before you decide
Questions, answered plainly
Do I need land, or a farm?
No. Most members have neither. The work begins wherever you are: a garden, a balcony, a relationship with a local wood, river or verge. What matters is that you have a place and the willingness to begin reading it.
I'm not an expert. Is it really for me?
Yes. There is nothing to qualify for. The Bioregional Mind course starts from the very beginning, and the community is built to hold people at every stage, including the very start.
I haven't got much time.
That's fine, and expected. Some members read the seasonal letter and do one small thing in their place each season; others go deep. Both are real ways of being in the work.
Is this just a donation?
No, and it isn't a content subscription either. You're paying to be part of the work, the way you might pay to belong to a community you're active in. The money sustains the work; your taking part is the point of it.
What is bioregional regeneration?
Regenerating the living systems of the place you live — its soil, water, wildlife, food and community — together rather than one at a time, and at the scale of a real place rather than a single field. Wilderculture does this deeply in the UK uplands; the Circle is how anyone can begin the same work in their own ground.
Can I leave?
At any time, with no friction. Membership is a standing invitation, not a trap. You're welcome for as long as the work is useful to you, and welcome back whenever it is again.
Be the first in
The doors open later this year
The first members will help shape what this becomes. Leave your name and we'll write to you the day membership opens — nothing before then.
One email, when membership opens. Nothing else.