Listen to Emily and Charlie on DO Radio's Where To Next with Dan Kiernan, 12-19 July 2026.

Emily Fawcett and Charlie Loram are the co-directors and immersion hosts of The Old Way, a Devon-based project dedicated to rewilding people back into relationship with the land.

Emily is an experimental archaeologist with a recent MA in human-animal interactions in the Stone Age, alongside fifteen years' experience as a rewilder, forager, tracker, and musician in both New Zealand and the UK.

Charlie is a natural movement and wilder living coach, wilderness guide, and lifelong fisherman, whose thirty years of work spans Himalayan trekking, Alexander Technique, and rites of passage.

Both have spent decades learning to live closer to the old rhythms: Emily tracking deer and foxes through the oak forest above the River Dart where she now lives, Charlie following an eight-year exploration of the Himalaya before planting himself on Dartmoor, home to generations of his ancestors.

Together, they and their family spend the warmer months foraging and fishing along the south Devon coast, tracing what they believe was the likely seasonal flow of Britain's hunter-gatherer forebears - venison and firewood in winter, river trout in spring, coastal fish and seaweed in summer, berries and nuts in autumn.

At the heart of their work is a shared question: what does it mean to be indigenous to the land we live on?

Through The Old Way's courses and immersions, they teach foraging, bushcraft, and nature connection not as survivalism but as a way of restoring a trusting, reciprocal relationship with the wild - one where abundance follows care.

DO Radio Show Notes

In conversation with Dan, Emily and Charlie explore their own journeys back to the land, and what foraging and wild food can teach us about belonging, seasonality, and living in step with the natural world.