Our Story
Where wildness, wonder, and reimagining land come to life.
We’re Katie and Luke - nature lovers, storytellers, and the hearts behind Wild Finca, a family-run rewilding farm in the lush green mountains of Northern Spain.
Once globe-trotting wildlife storytellers, we spent years documenting nature’s beauty and fragility - from peregrine falcons in Chicago to otters in Singapore, hyenas in Harar to Iberian lynx in Andalucía. But as the stories grew heavier, and burnout crept in, we felt called to do more than observe.
We needed to restore.
In 2018, that shift brought us here, to a forgotten dairy farm. The land was tired. So were we. But something magical happened: we exhaled. The ground felt right beneath our feet. We began to root.
Wild Finca now stands on two interwoven pillars:
Family Nature Connection
As parents raising two boys in a rewilding landscape, we have watched what happens when children are given back the conditions they were designed for, space to move, things to notice, time that isn't scheduled or streamed.
Mud becomes medicine. Beetles become teachers. A slow walk becomes the thing that turns a hard afternoon into a connected one.
But we have also felt the pull of modern family life, the speed, the noise, the low hum of friction that builds when everyone is overstimulated and nobody quite knows why. We are not removed from it here. We live inside it too.
What we have learned, from restoring this land and from raising our children within it, is that behaviour changes when conditions change. Not through force. Through rhythm.
Most parenting approaches try to change what children do. The Wild Shift changes the environment around them, restoring the daily conditions that support regulation, connection, and calm. When those conditions shift, the explosive moments soften. The distance closes. The parent who felt like they couldn't reach their child finds their way back.
It is not about moving to the countryside or abandoning modern life. It is about small, consistent moments of contact with the natural world, woven into the rhythm of the days you are already living, that restore something the whole family has been running without.
The Wild Shift is our mentorship for families experiencing difficult behaviour, daily friction, and the disconnection that builds when nervous systems are chronically overwhelmed. Through the Three-Step Reset, a parent-first method, we help families restore the environmental conditions that make calm, connection, and steady leadership possible again.
In 90 days, families move from daily battles and explosive behaviour to a home that feels genuinely different, not because anything was forced, but because the conditions underneath finally changed.
If something here resonates, if you recognise the friction, the distance, the exhaustion of trying everything and still feeling stuck, this is where to begin.
→ Find out whether The Wild Shift is right for your family
2. Small-Scale Rewilding
What was once overgrazed monoculture pasture is now a vibrant patchwork of wildflower meadows, ponds, forest edges, and wildlife corridors - home to over 113 bird species, 30 mammals (including 16 bat species!), and rare plants like the delicate Autumn Lady’s Tresses orchid.
We believe rewilding isn’t just for vast landscapes or big organisations.
It begins in gardens, balconies, schoolyards - in noticing what’s already there, and making space for more life to return. It grows through connection. It thrives when humans remember we belong to the web of life - not apart from it.
At Wild Finca, rewilding means:
Letting nature lead, while working alongside her
Restoring ecological rhythms - and our own
Making space for both the wild and the human
This is a lived landscape, where people and nature grow side by side.
Want to start rewilding where you are?
Download our free guide: Quick Wins for Nature - packed with small, simple actions you can take in your own space to help wildlife, support soil, and reconnect with the rhythms of the natural world. Grab your copy here.
Because every patch matters - and every step counts.
Our Mission
We started as storytellers, watching, documenting, our aim to help guide people to care about a natural world that was disappearing faster than we could film it. We spent years believing the problem was awareness. That if people could just see what we were seeing, they'd act differently.
What we came to understand, slowly, through burnout and land and raising children, is that people protect what they love, and they love what they feel connected to. And most of us have lost that connection without quite noticing it go.
Wild Finca exists to restore that connection, in the land, and in the people who come into contact with it.
Not as a grand gesture. As a daily practice. Through all those who visit us here and watch them come alive in it. Through the parents who find their way back to themselves through small, consistent moments in the natural world. Through the land itself, which keeps showing us that when the right conditions return, life reorganises around them.
Restore the land. Rewilding doesn't require vast estates or big organisations. It begins in gardens, schoolyards, and forgotten corners, in noticing what's already there and making space for more life to return.
Restore the family. Difficult behaviour, daily friction, the quiet disconnection of modern family life, these are environmental problems as much as parenting ones. Change the conditions, and behaviour follows.
Restore the rhythm. Human nervous systems evolved within natural rhythms that modern life has all but removed. Restoration, of land and of families, means returning those rhythms, one small practice at a time.
Restore the connection. When children fall in love with the wild world, they grow up wanting to protect it. That's the longest thread running through everything we do here.
Whether you found us through the rewilding, the parenting, the book, or simply a photograph of this landscape, you're in the right place. Everything we do here grows from the same root: that restoration flows both ways, and that the natural world isn't something we visit. It's something we belong to.
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From our wild corner to yours,
Katie, Luke, Roan & Albus
