Kate Humble

Kate Humble is a writer and broadcaster. Her television series include Animal Park, Escape to the Farm, Britain’s Best Coastal Walks, Back to the Land, Lambing Live, Springwatch, Living with Nomads, Wild Shepherdess, and most recently, presenting Warships on C5. She is the author of six books including Where the Hearth Is: Stories of Home, A Year of Living Simply, Thinking on My Feet (Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize and the Stanford Travel Writing Award) and the recipe books Homemade: Recipes from the Countryside and Homecooked: Recipes From the Farm. She is a contributing editor of Wanderlust, and regularly writes on wildlife, rural and environmental affairs, travel and wellbeing for various publications. She president of WWT, Patron of the British Society of Soil Science, ambassador for Farms for City Children and the Whitley Fund for Nature. She’s also a qualified commercial diver. If you need barnacles removing from the bottom of your boat, she’s your girl.