about Leading Wild
restoring soul and soil
Leading Wild is a new enterprise from Jess Latchford, inspired by the inherent need for us all to experience, appreciate and understand nature as well as feeling as though we live a life with purpose.
Throughout 2020, Jess pieced together conversations, both professional and personal, that were layered with hopes, dreams, challenges, losses, realisations and discoveries, all of which encouraged a new dawn of thinking, a re-evaluation of needs and a reconsideration of what matters.
Already working closely with farmers and corporate clients, through her surplus fresh produce business, Waste Knot, the completed puzzle began to emerge. An era of collaboration and purpose-driven accountability and responsibility for our planet and ourselves.
As with nature, we aim to create relationships which are mutually beneficial. No longer is survival of the fittest going to cut it. Those species who survive the longest are those who recognise their own and others’ needs and abilities.
Join us on our journey to discover a new age of leadership through the practices of regenerative agriculture.
biomimicry
/bʌɪəʊˈmɪmɪkri/ noun
emulation of the models, systems, and elements of nature for the purpose of solving complex human problems.
Regenerative Leadership
Grass roots
We believe that in strength lies vulnerability, an existential flexibility which seems to have been lost along the way. We want to rewrite the responsibility of business and the people within that living system, to enable their employees on the ground to make decisions based on the values of the company they work for. We want to inspire all layers of the hierarchy by creating a personal and collective purpose so that self-awareness leads to systemic awareness and the ripple effects can be felt and seen far and wide.
Regenerative Agriculture
Every action has a consequence
Our planet’s once-fertile lands have been damaged due to our drive for production of food through the intensive use of pesticides and monocrop farming. Not only has this decimated the nutrients within our soil and thus our food, but also been catastrophic for species biodiversity above and below the ground. Find out how, through collaborating with businesses and farmers, we are helping to reverse this paradigm to build for the future.