Caroline Grindrod
I am a regenerative agriculture consultant and an accredited professional in Holistic Management with a background in hill farming and environmental conservation.
I co-founded Wilderculture and am the lead trainer, project manager and developer of the Wilderculture approach.
I combine a diverse range of ideas and expertise to work with large farms and estates in upland environments to make them more profitable, resilient and help them regenerate their landscapes in ways that fit with the local cultural heritage and their personal aspirations for the property.
The Wilderculture approach uses the holistic management framework, with the support of our team to help us achieve a whole system redesign of the landscape management.
Stephen Grindrod
I am mad about adventure and wild spaces. I use my traditional building and project management skills to create innovative uses for redundant heritage buildings and create new structures with natural materials. I love nothing more than to introduce people to natural spaces in ways that push their boundaries, so they too can help us look after this amazing planet.
Alexandra Tomlinson
MA Vet MB MSc PhD Dip ECZM (Wildlife Population Health) MRCVS
My expertise lies in understanding the differences between the diseases and infections we see in truly wild animal populations, and those we see in our domesticated and captive species and the complex relationships between disease, land management and human interventions.
Georgia Wingfield-Hayes
I am a writer and storyteller who explores the human relationship with the more-than-human world, from regenerative agriculture to the realm of human initiatory journeys. Stories are our greatest tool to create change because, like poetry, stories bypass the mind and go straight to the heart, the seat of human motivation. I have come to writing and storytelling on a circuitous route via wildlife guiding, gardening, agriculture, human nutrition, human psychology and sustainability leadership. Myth is the lost language of the body and soul, the language in which the world thinks, it is time to reawaken this aspect of the human psyche so we may re-enter the dreaming of the earth and listen to her needs.
Sam Beaumont
I am a farmer and regenerative agriculture consultant with a mechanical engineering background, and am the managing partner at Gowbarrow Hall, my wife’s family farm. I moved to Cumbria in 2017 to take over running the farm, next to Ullswater in the Lake District.
We started out with sheep and cattle in a fairly conventional system, but quickly realised that this wasn’t going to provide us with a viable or rewarding business in the rapidly changing and challenging world we live in.
In 2019 we embarked on a joint venture with Wilderculture CIC, and started the Wilder Gowbarrow project. The project focuses on using a mixture of regenerative grazing and rewilding to restore our soil and ecology using Shorthorn cattle, Kune Kune pigs and Fell ponies.
My day usually starts with moving cattle – for me, there is no better or more satisfying sight in the world than seeing the mob move on to fresh pasture. If I’m not out on the farm somewhere, then I’m making bread, playing guitar or drawing pictures of pink unicorns for my 4 year old daughter!!
