‘A Wilding Year’ Book Signing at Doddington Farm Shop

A Wilding Year: Bringing Life Back to the Land
Book Signing with Hannah Dale

Hannah Dale, the Lincolnshire-based author, artist and founder of the award-winning nature-centric gift company Wrendale Designs, will be visiting the Doddington Farm Shop on Saturday 1 March for an exclusive book signing to celebrate the launch of her new book, A Wilding Year: Bringing Life Back to the Land. The book will be available to buy on the day and with every book purchased, customers will receive a free goodie bag while stocks last.

The book follows Hannah Dale’s deeply personal journey as she returns her Lincolnshire farm to nature, celebrating the return of an astonishing variety of wildlife. Hannah takes you through a year on her farm in rural Lincolnshire where, alongside her husband, she has undertaken an ambitious rewilding project. Together, they are attempting to return the land to nature and increase the number of species their land is able to support.

A Wilding Year explores how one family have been able to embrace the beauty to be found in untidy landscapes, heralding the return of skylarks, meadow pipits, hobbies, polecats and many more species to their farm. The land was originally claimed from marshy wetlands, and leaning into the land’s natural inclination to be wet has also yielded amazing ponds and pond life.

This rewilding journey has also provided Hannah with new sources of inspiration for her paintings. A Wilding Year is both a journal and a sketchbook, in which Hannah keeps a visual record of the incredible variety of species she finds on the farm.

This fascinating account of a year spent in nature brings to life the beauty and power of wildlife in every season.