The Knepp Wilding Podcast
Episodes
Look Who’s Storking Too!
03 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Isabella Tree catches up with two of the White Stork Project volunteers, Tim Morgan and Rosemary Dewan, as they prepare food for the non-flying storks...
Talking Trees
03 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Isabella’s guest is Harriet Rix, the Indiana Jones of tree science. She’s chased down rare trees in some of the remotest, wildest places in the wo...
Is England Beaver Ready?
06 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Not according to Mark Elliot, beaver expert and Isabella Tree’s latest podcast guest. Licensed beaver pens – designed by Government as the first s...
Headwinds and hope: Tony Juniper on Why Nature Restoration is a Path to Economic Growth
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This time we are absolutely delighted to welcome Tony Juniper to the Knepp Wilding Podcast. Tony is well-known to us here at Knepp. A massive supporte...
Rebelling with Integrity: Geetie & Guy Singh-Watson on Food, Farming, and Fairness
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Geetie and Guy Singh-Watson are powerhouses of the organic and regenerative food and farming movement. They’re the inspiration behind the Knepp Wild...
Penny’s farewell - fond memories of runaway beavers and sloe carpets
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this very special episode Penny Green officially hands the host’s mic to Isabella Tree.Penny has been behind the Knepp podcast since it launched ...
Owl Quiet on the Nesting Front
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Owl Quiet on the Nesting Front, Penny Green interviews Matt Phelps, Knepp’s lead ecologist. They’re out on the Wildland checking 22 owl boxes. ...
The Plant People Love to Hate
22 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been a bumper summer for ragwort, the plant folks love to hate. In this month’s Knepp Wilding Podcast, Isabella Tree unearths the truth about...
A Wild Way to Grow
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s an early morning start for episode 38, as we meet with wonderful grower Rosanna before the heat of the day kicks in, and before she and the res...
A Bonanza Year for Purple Emperors
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join Knepp’s Isabella Tree and an over-excited Matthew Oates, the purple emperor’s No 1 devotee, to celebrate a bonanza year for this rare, beauti...
The Dove From Above
22 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join us on a beautiful June evening for episode 36 of the Knepp Wildland Podcast. We’re joined by Knepp’s lead ecologist, Matt Phelps, deep in the...
Queen of the Flies
25 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Buckle yourselves in for episode 35 of the Knepp Wildland Podcast with the vivacious Erica McAlister, Principle Curator for Diptera and Siphonaptera (...
The Return of the Stork
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s episode 34 of the Knepp Wildland Podcast and we return to the White Stork Project, five years on, to hear the latest news with White Stork Proj...
Dam Good News for Beavers!
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 33 of the Knepp Wildland Podcast we meet Knepp’s brilliant new Lead Ecologist, Matt Phelps. We chat about the exciting news, released jus...
Ground Control to Ranger Tom
16 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's episode 32 and we’re joined by Tom Burns, Knepp’s marvellous ranger and woodsman.We learn what Tom gets up to in his daily work at the K...
The Inoculated Boxes
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 31 is a short n’ sweet one which sees the return of Dr Matt Wainhouse to Knepp, in his exciting role as Natural England’s Fungi and Lichen...
The Beavers Revisited
06 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's episode 30 so it's time for a beaver project update! We’re joined again by national beaver specialist, and all-round good egg, Mark E...
The Artists
17 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s Episode 29 and we’re in the beaver pen with a gaggle of delightful artists who help us draw a different perspective on rewilding. Led by the...
Wild Finca
31 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 28 of the Knepp Wildland Podcast transports us far away from Knepp and into the beautifully rugged landscape of Asturias in Spain. We’re vis...
The Ponds
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 27 finds us in the field with Rosie Moss from the wonderful Newt Conservation Partnership and Shaun Hancox, digger-driver extraordinaire! The ...
The Harvest Mouse
10 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 26 of the Knepp Wildland Podcast takes us on the trail of Micromys minutus, the Harvest Mouse, with fellow mammal appreciators Ryan Greaves an...
The Microclimate
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Join us on episode 25 where we learn about a ground-breaking microclimate project with Assistant Professor Rebecca Senior and PhD student Cameron Good...
The Soundscape
12 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s Episode 24 and I’m joined by the brilliant artist, Hazel Reeves, to hear how she has been inspired by the Knepp soundscape to extend her arti...
The Nightingale Bite-size
29 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
To celebrate 10,000 downloads of our first ever episode, The Nightingale, I'm delighted to be able to offer you a bite-size version of it!It seem...
The Archaeologists
11 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s episode 23 and we are taking a blustery walk with some fascinating researchers from Oxford Archaeology and Historic England… we are stepping ...
The Beavers
15 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a wet and wild episode 22! We’re joined by national beaver specialist, Mark Elliott, down in the Knepp beaver pen after a night of heavy rain...
The Youth Rewilding Summit
14 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 21 finds us at an uplifting event surrounded by a hundred young people: a youth rewilding summit held at Knepp in September in collaboration w...
The Cuckoo
14 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 20 takes us on an early morning mission to catch a Cuckoo or two with the brilliant Lee Barber, from the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO). ...
The Rewilded Garden
04 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 19 finds us in a newly rewilded location at Knepp – the garden! Charlie Harpur, Suzi Turner and Moy Fierheller are our keystone species, or...
The Earthworm
16 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It’s episode 18 so it’s about time we go underground, delving well below the surface to unearth the life cycle of a rather brilliant ecosystem eng...
The Rainbow Chaser
19 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 17 takes me and my brilliant team-mate, Ivan de Klee, outside of the Knepp Estate boundaries. Ivan is our rainbow chaser and helps us imagine ...
The Scrubland with Isabella Tree
18 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Isabella Tree is joint owner of Knepp, and author of the best-seller Wilding book, and has been a long-awaited guest on the podcast. In episode 16 Iss...
The Regenerative Farm
21 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s episode 15 and we’re exploring a different part of the Knepp Estate! Join me as I find out more about our new regenerative farm from farm man...
The Tree-corer
26 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Join Matt Wainhouse, Geoff Liddell and myself for episode 14, as we take a deep dive in to one of Knepp’s magnificent oak trees. Matt is carrying ou...
The Dawn Chorus
08 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 13 finds us at Knepp Wildland at dawn, which is a pretty early start in the middle of May! I’m joined by Sideshow Dave to find some of the s...
The Purple Emperor Update
01 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 12 is a bonus episode with Matthew Oates, we take the opportunity to have a catch-up about the forthcoming Purple Emperor season, weird weathe...
The Orange-tip
31 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 11 finds us on a bright spring day sitting by a stream with Matthew Oates. Matthew, a remarkable field naturalist and author, has spent his lo...
The Stockman
03 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 10 finds us in the rewilding project at springtime during our old English longhorn cattle calving season, with Knepp’s splendid stockman, Pa...
The Musician
28 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 9 brings us something a little bit different to usual as we meet an incredibly wild musician! Richard Durrant has drawn inspiration from Knepp...
The Lock-down Round-up
20 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It's Episode 8 and I’m joined by Side-show Dave! We go ringing at a noisy redwing roost in the Wildland scrub, and back at home we enjoy a glas...
The Fallow Deer
23 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 7 takes us back in time as we learn about fallow deer: what their ancestors would have looked like and how they would have behaved. We also en...
The Dung Beetles
06 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our sixth episode is dedicated to some of the world’s most wonderful ecosystem engineers: dung beetles. As well as being funky little insects they p...
The Purple Emperor
04 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 5 we meet the ebullient Matthew Oates to talk about the inebriated and hedonistic life of His Imperial Majesty, the purple emperor. We talk...
The Reptile Tins
24 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
During episode four we delve in to the intriguing lives of reptiles and learn more about these fascinating animals at Knepp Wildland. I'm joined ...
The Bee Buckets
09 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In our third episode we investigate a fascinating research project being carried out at Knepp Wildland, which is studying the social behaviour of the ...
The White Stork
10 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In our second episode we explore the lives of the white storks nesting at Knepp Wildland which have featured on Springwatch this month.The white stork...
The Nightingale
29 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our inaugural episode celebrates the return of the nightingale to Knepp Wildland this spring.The nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos) has seen an impre...