Wild Ken Hill
Using a rewilding approach in the English context
Wild Ken Hill operates an early-stage lowland rewilding project with huge ecological potential. The 400+ hectare rewilding area includes freshwater marshes, ancient woodland, wood pasture, Fen-like areas, acid heathland, and post-agricultural land that sits across three distinct soil types. The site recorded well over 2,000 species in year zero, and is now seeking to employ rewilding principles to create one of the UK’s top nature reserves.
Separately, on the other 60% of the land holding, Wild Ken Hill actively manages freshwater marshes and other environmental features, and performs pioneering regenerative arable agriculture techniques. This three-prong model has received interest from the UK policymakers as an example of rewilding unproductive land to produce biodiversity, climate and community benefits, while producing food on productive land (Norfolk is among the best farmland in the UK).
• Acid heath-land
• Deciduous woodland
• Post-agricultural (arable) rewilded grassland and emerging scrub
• Freshwater wetlands
• Reed-bed
Wild Ken Hill operates an early-stage lowland rewilding project with huge ecological potential. The 400+ hectare rewilding area includes freshwater marshes, ancient woodland, wood pasture, Fen-like areas, acid heathland, and post-agricultural land that sits across three distinct soil types. The site recorded well over 2,000 species in year zero, and is now seeking to employ rewilding principles to create one of the UK’s top nature reserves.
Separately, on the other 60% of the land holding, Wild Ken Hill actively manages freshwater marshes and other environmental features, and performs pioneering regenerative arable agriculture techniques. This three-prong model has received interest from the UK policymakers as an example of rewilding unproductive land to produce biodiversity, climate and community benefits, while producing food on productive land (Norfolk is among the best farmland in the UK).
• Acid heath-land
• Deciduous woodland
• Post-agricultural (arable) rewilded grassland and emerging scrub
• Freshwater wetlands
• Reed-bed