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Chris Bone, Founder Director
Chris Bone, Founder Director
Chris has spent much of his life working for social justice and the environment, since 2007 through a charity he formed called OceansWatch.
Chris spent many years in New Zealand where he developed a 210 acre organic farm, then fenced off an 80 acre of forest which he covenanted in perpetuity with the NZ National Trust.
During his farming life Chris also developed a national organic consultancy and farm services franchise business to ISO 9000 standards.
He currently shares 300 acres of land in NZ where he has planted thousands of trees and is currently developing spaces for Tiny Houses.
Chris now spends ½ his life back in the SW UK and is passionate about rewilding. He wants to empower and resource people throughout the UK to start their own rewilding schemes with The Rewilding Collective.
When not working on the land Chris works as a professional yacht captain and was a captain for the Greenpeace yacht Vega for a few years.
Leilani Van Koten, Director
Chris Bone, Founder Director
Leilani is passionate about supporting groups in establishing dynamic, distributed forms of governance (i.e. how we organise and make decisions together).
She is an experienced facilitator, currently supporting the local Totnes Climate Hub and Transition Streets project and is a long-term activist with local and UK Extinction Rebellion.
Leilani thrives on connection through profound shared purpose; sacred singing and conscious dance, and has over a decade of lived experience of intentional community.
Ash Brown, Director
Ashleigh Brown is a serial entrepreneur who has been working in the world of ecosystem restoration since 2016.
She co-founded Ecosystem Restoration Communities (ERC), a global grassroot movement of over 70 ecosystem restoration initiatives, at the age of 26.
In that time, she created and grew the organisation from the ground to where it is today.
As part of her work with the ERC, she co-created the UK’s first in depth rewilding training, known as The Rewilding Training, and trains 50 people a year to become rewilding consultants and practitioners across the UK and Europe.
She also offers her knowledge to private clients as a consultant herself, creating rewilding management plans for land managers.
Nick Davy, Director
Join our CSA program and receive a box of fresh, organic produce every week. Our boxes include a variety of seasonal fruits and vegetables sourced from local farms.
Mothiur Rahmen, Legal Advisor
Mothiur is the founder of New Economy Law.
He trained at a top 20 global law firm and worked for 7 years in a top 50 London law firm specialising in planning, environmental and public law related matters, with a focus on public authorities and the marine environment.
He founded New Economy Law to bring his passions for creativity, ecology and spirituality into his practice.
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Britt Basel, founder Ecothropic
Chris Bone is a visionary who dreams big and makes those dreams a reality. He envisions a different way of living, relating to the Earth, and connecting with each other. We worked together at OceansWatch, where he secured funding and successfully transformed the lives of thousands. Through initiatives like improved locally managed fisheries, sustainable livelihoods, fair trade, and helping people to adapt to climate change through community initiatives and nature-based solutions. Chris demonstrated an exceptional understanding of how to support and regenerate the natural world around us. Chris dreams and creates a better reality for us all.
PROPERTIES UNDER CONSIDERATION
Sept 2024 - Beenleigh Manor Farm, Harbertonford
We are assessing this property with 150 acres and a stretch of the river Harbourne, 2 miles outside of Totnes.
The extensive housing on site presents the possibility for a joint purchase with our partner organisation Regenerative Community to form a co-housing community.
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This initiative has been made possible through hundreds of hours of exceptional volunteer work and through your generous donations.