A WILDING YEAR is an impassioned and personal illustrated journal of a year during the ambitious rewilding project that Hannah and her husband have undertaken on their 300 acre farm in North Lincolnshire (www.wildwrendale.co.uk). After inheriting the farm in 2015 from her husbands father and going through four years of unproductive arable farming due to poor soil, they came to the conclusion it was the perfect candidate for rewilding to restore ecosystems to the point that nature can take care of itself. In the summer of 2019 they took their final harvest and that autumn stood back to let the land do what it wanted to and watch what happened. They were looking for the land to express its own character and start the process of healing itself.

Hannah recounts the remarkable and exciting changes, together with the struggles, the farm undergoes as natural processes are allowed to return, creating a mosaic of opportunities for wildlife. The abundance of flora and fauna are captured by Hannahs enchanting sketches and illustrations of skylarks, hobbies, short eared owls, goldcrests, hedgehogs, polecats, hares, meadow brown butterflies, emperor dragonflies, hawk moths, bats, roe deer, woodcock, snipe, marsh orchids and ink cap and beef steak fungi, spectacularly bringing to life the beauty and power of nature in every season.

Pre-order a book or buy one on the night to receive a complimentary gift bag of Hannah's stationery and gifts.
Hannah Dale runs Wrendale Designs, a stationery and gift design company which specializes in endearing illustrations depicting British wildlife, which she founded in 2012. Hannah grew up in the countryside of rural Lincolnshire which has always inspired her watercolour illustrations. Studying art at school before reading zoology at Cambridge, she went on to work as a stockbroker in London for four years before returning to Lincolnshire to find an outlet for her artistic roots and passion for ecology and conservation.

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