Rewilding the Sharpham Estate: a tenancy with a difference
Kate Dewally, a PhD student at the University of East Anglia researching English environmental payment schemes (ELMS, private nature markets) for farmers and farm cluster groups, recently talked to Jack about our Rewilding project on the Sharpham Estate. In her words, read the resulting blog article below! It was brilliant to chat to Jack Skuse, […]
Black-veined white: a remarkable butterfly!
Incredible – I’d never seen it before – two white butterflies linked together in courtship flying at speed about 1m over our heads. The shout from one of our trainees standing next to me was loud: “Black-veined whites!!!” Oh gosh, lots of thoughts tumbled through my mind. We were witnessing the first free flying BVWs […]
Wild About Trees – The Project that Changed our Landscape
At the end of March, we gathered on a wild and windy day to celebrate the completion of Ambios and The Sharpham Trust‘s Wild About Trees project. What began as an ambitious vision to reconnect people, nature, and landscape has, over the past few years, grown into a living reality. Together, volunteers, schools, community groups, […]
Making Comfrey Tea: Garden Nourishment with the Trainees
Comfrey tea, or comfrey fertiliser, is an all-organic, easy to make plant food that provides excellent nutrition, especially for flowering and fruiting plants. Over the last few years in the garden at Ambios we have been experimenting with making comfrey tea, and other variations of plant based fertilisers, to help nourish our plants. During a […]
Our 2nd Breaking Bread Feast
At the end of last month we celebrated our second Breaking Bread feast at the farm. This one was a little different – we were celebrating the culmination of our Community Forest project (more on that to come soon!). Everyone who had been involved in the project over the last few years was invited for […]
Restoring Nature 2026
Restoring Nature is back for another edition! Join Ambios and East Gate Bookshop on the 16th of May, for a one-day, family-friendly literary festival celebrating our connection to the land and the natural world around us. Our guest authors for 2026 are: Brigit Anna McNeill The Wild Within Merlin Hanbury-Tenison Our Oaken Bones Dr. Eloise […]
Birdsong and Broccoli – Our First Week at Sharpham
Arriving for our first week of the Spring Residential Traineeship in Nature Recovery, we all knew the facts; it’s a rare opportunity to learn about the process of rewilding while living in the thick of it, in the beautiful Sharpham Farm near Totnes. But none of us really knew what to expect when we got […]
Week 1 on the Spring 2026 Nature Recovery Traineeship
Today marks the end of the first week of the Ambios Spring Traineeship 2026. This place is quickly starting to feel like home. The Sharpham Estate is a breathtaking place, bursting with wildlife and landscapes that will only get greener and more beautiful as the weeks go on and we get further into spring. I’m […]
White Stork Sighting on the River Dart
Our Autumn trainees were treated to a rare and unforgettable sighting – a white stork along the River Dart. During last year’s Autumn 2025 traineeship, Colette and Alex spotted a striking bird overhead. As it drew closer, there was hesitation: was it a heron, an egret, even a swan? But after consulting the trusty Colins […]
Seasonal Shifts & Spring Cleaning the Polytunnel
Last month, our team took on the daunting (but long overdue) task of giving the polytunnel in our garden its annual spring clean. It was no small undertaking and called for a fair bit of creativity to devise the right cleaning solutions. Yet what could have felt like a purely practical job unfolded into something […]
