In this episode of Turning the Tide, Lucas meets Laura Fairs, the Rewilding Wizard at Embercombe near Dartmoor - a trailblazing retreat centre that's letting nature run wild again.

Join us as we explore how stepping back from control unleashes cascades of life - from crickets in long grass and booming reptile populations to flocks of buzzards and berry-gorging thrushes - and why "messiness" is the secret to healing both land and hearts. Laura shares radical tips for young listeners on inviting chaos into gardens, minds, and communities: ditch the phone, get deliberately lost, and listen to what the landscape whispers back. We dive into rewilding people as much as places, challenging our obsession with tidy lawns and productive checklists in favour of deep time, cycles of decay, and animistic kinship with the wild.

This is Turning the Tide: A brand new Roots Media production. The tide is turning. The only question is, will you listen in as tomorrow gets written?

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This episode on Turning the Tide Lucas, Fyn and Matt sit down with two extraordinary trailblazers who have rewritten what it means to care in business - not about profit but also about people and planet.

Guy Singh-Watson is the founder of the pioneering Riverford Organic Farmers and Geetie is a prolific publican, with her latest venture being the Bull Inn in Totnes. In fact, this episode was recorded on location at the Bull!

Join us as we explore the future of organic farming and why small and medium-scale growers are central to any resilient food system, the Bull’s “noble rules” and what it means to build moral ambition into a business model, and Riverford’s move to employee ownership - including capping top pay at nine times the lowest wage. We also talk candidly about supermarkets, ultra-processed food, and what “patriotic millionaires” might look like in a country living with deep inequality.

This is Turning the Tide: A brand new Roots Media production. The tide is turning. The only question is, will you listen in as tomorrow gets written?

Turning the Tide is brought to you by Roots Media - a teenage-led environmental media organisation mixing hope, authenticity, and unpolished truth about climate action in the real world. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.

What is the point of caring about nature when the headlines feel so bleak? In this episode of Turning the Tide, Lucas sits down with Victoria Benns, former art teacher turned naturalist and founder of Bewild CIC, who thinks the answer starts on your doorstep rather than in Westminster.

From beach cafés in Dartmouth to verges and pavements across the South Hams, she explains why reconnecting with nearby wildlife is not a soft, sentimental add‑on but a serious strategy for tackling biodiversity loss, mental health crises and community fragmentation. She argues that if people fall in love with the birds, beetles and moss outside their front door, protection and activism follow naturally.

Victoria also reflects on why apathy is often just a lack of invitation, how local businesses can become unlikely biodiversity trailblazers, and what it means to build hope not by preaching doom, but by helping people notice the wild stories already unfolding all around them.

This is Turning the Tide: A brand new Roots Media production. The tide is turning. The only question is, will you listen in as tomorrow gets written?

Turning the Tide is brought to you by Roots Media - a teenage-led environmental media organisation mixing hope, authenticity, and unpolished truth about climate action in the real world. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.

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