LANDHEALER – Jake Fiennes
Land Healer – How Farming Can Save Britain’s Countryside
Author talk and supper with Jake Fiennes
6pm Thursday 8 January 2026
Jake Fiennes began his career lambing at Knepp as a teenager back in the farming days of the 1990s and then as Knepp’s gamekeeper. His original two week stay, living with Isabella and Charlie at the castle, morphed into five years. While Knepp spun off into rewilding, Jake continued as a gamekeeper running a famous wild shoot at Raveningham Estate and latterly as conservation manager at Holkham Estate in Norfolk where he’s now advising on nature restoration in an agricultural landscape.
His uplifting, powerful, bestselling book ‘Land Healer – how farming can save Britain’s countryside’ is changing the face of farming in Britain. Jake is Co-Chair of Natural England’s National Nature Reserves Advisory Group, and is on DEFRA’s Species Reintroduction Task Force, and the UK Government’s Glover Review of National Parks. His advice is sought by everyone from the NFU to the King Charles. Join Charlie, Isabella and Jake for a spirited discussion, picking up on unfinished conversations, on the future of the British landscape and how – or even whether – farming and rewilding can work together.
Enjoy a glass of bubbly on arrival, book signing, 40min talk with 15mins for audience Q&A, followed by a delicious three-course dinner at the Wilding Kitchen