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Root-to-Reef is a Wiltshire-based cultural ecology practice, offering ecology consulting services for both land owners and equestrians.
Ecology consultancy services:
• Due Diligence reports – thorough verification and assessment of ecological site reports
• BioRegional Consulting for Regeneration Projects – analysis of project materials, synthesis of cultural/ecological insights,
• Cultural Narrative Reports – transforming ecological or archaeological findings into compelling cultural stories.
• Equestrian Land mapping, collaboration with LandScope – helping equestrians understand their land
Education: Ecology & life-sciences teaching to students from secondary to university level.
Root-to-Reef participates in creative ecological projects such as Eco-Explorers – a digital coastal conservation platform – with Bath Spa University. And Cultural Ecology projects such as “Birds of Spirit” – our book exploring indigenous lore, spiritual practice and coastal ecology.
Following my studies in Permaculture, the core ethics of Root-to-Reef can be explored through the three-part framing of Earth Care / People Care / Fare Share.
Earth Care
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Everything we do at Root-to-Reef has the Earth at heart, from ensuring Due Diligence on a client’s survey reporting or writing a Regenerative Synthesis Report for a BioRegional Project, our Earth, Animals and Plants are in our focus. In our Cultural Due Diligence we aim to integrate people in the environmental context (see People Care). This is essential to avoid alienation when much regeneration work is taking place on private land and funded by private interests. Our Cultural Due Diligence helps restore the place of the community within the larger context of regenerative work.
Projects such as the Eco-Explorers Digital Game (Collaboration since January 2025 with a team from Bath Spa University) involves creating a mapping of the Somerset Coast so young people can become “eco-explorers” as they learn about major costal challenges. Working in partnership with Somerset Wildlife Trust, we are developing the most appropriate scenarios which are coherent with their own communication and outreach goals.
In the project “Birds of Spirit”, we have written and published a book (2025) that combines indigenous lore, spiritual practice & coastal ecology around 21 species of bird. It is the earth and her creatures that are centre focus. “Birds of Spirit” takes the reader upon a journey into the Bird Realms, learning about their ways and their messages for us.
People Care
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People Care is manifest in several areas of our practice to integrate humans and human populations into the ecological narratives we weave to avoid the collapse of relations between re-wilders and farmers – or wolf-lovers in conflict with both farmers and municipalities. We need to take care of the people, integrating them into developments so they feel invested and respected as a part of these projects. The work being done by Northumberland Wildlife Trust regarding the return of the Lynx has been carefully prepared with landowners and local farmers, to help them learn about the ecology of the Lynx, and live at peace with the reintroduction of these wild animals, including taking a party of local farmers to Germany so they could witness similar projects first-hand.
We work on a variety of educational projects including tutoring, teaching in a Home-Ed or University context. We believe that students and young people are the stewards of the future and need to become part of the project to feel empowered to take on their future role. We are never “lecturing at” but “building knowledge with”. The aim is that whole, healthy, curious and empowered students can step into their autonomy and take on powerful and important roles in looking after the earth, as in our approach in Eco-Explorers, where digital game becomes a vector for coastal awareness.
Fair Share (or Return of Surplus)
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Root-to-Reef gives back to the various communities we interact with. Our aim is not to accrue value, to be sold and make a return for the owner. Our “exit” strategy is more about what value can we leave in the form of books, documentation – knowledge passed on, and experience shared, so that my own experience, accrued over 40 years of professional life – in science, teaching, writing, and as a BioRegional Leader – can be used to benefit others. We wish to return as much as we can to the collective.
We aim to inspire, fire the imagination, and remind others that we share the planet with the beyond-human-world. The worlds of Bird Nations, Whale Nations and the myriad other nations that are all too often ignored as beings with their own laws, customs, and their own rights. Fair Share is to take only what we need and be sure to put as much as we can back into the collective. Several projects featured in Root-to-Reef have been offered Pro-Bono.
