Claire
General Manager
Claire – Her first love was sport, so she trained as a teacher of physical education and taught for a couple of years in the beautiful county of Shropshire.
Her second love was adventure travel and the big wide world was waiting to be explored, so she gave everything up, packed the rucksack and lived the dream.
Her third love turned out to be running businesses, so for the past 32 years she has been busy starting, developing and managing businesses for herself and other people.
The Really Wild Emporium is business number 5 and she has clearly saved the best until last.
It provides enough variety and challenges to keep her boundless energy and drive under control.
Having spent her childhood summers foraging on the St Davids Peninsula with her dad Oliver, the opportunity to re -connect with ‘all things wild ‘ is just perfect.
Abbie
Products & Services Manager
After studying Zoology at university, Abbie went on to do her Primary PGCE and Level 3 Forest School Leader practitioner training. After teaching in classrooms for 5 years, her love of nature and the outdoors got the better of her and she went into outdoor education. Since moving full-time to Pembrokeshire she has found her place at Really Wild and gets to feed her creativity through her varied roles here. Abbie is also a yoga teacher, singer/songwriter and loves to learn new skills, to add more strings to her bow (she was once trained to teach archery too!).
Sioned
Front of House Manager
Sioned is our Front of House Manager. Outside of work she loves surfing, climbing and exploring the coast path and beaches with her dog Ava. She has always lived in St Davids, but loves going on adventures around the world when she can. Some of her favourite countries she’s visited so far are New Zealand, Sri Lanka and Nicaragua!
Jon
Head Chef
Jon’s always been a forager, but he really got the foraging bug at his first job; Llys Meddyg, Newport Pembs. There, he spent hours learning about wild foods and how to cook with it, and also got his Professional Cookery NVQ through Pembrokeshire College. The Whitebrook, Monmouth next, and an incredible opportunity to be mentored by the late Henry Ashby – foraging legend. Then L’Enclume, Cumbria – in 2018, rated best restaurant in the country, before restaurant Menu Gordon Jones, Bath. He joined the RWE in September ’20, and took charge of the kitchen in June ’22.
Fluent in Welsh, Jon’s a Cardiff boy, but has lived in Pembs well over five years, and loves the magical coastline. Seaweed’s his big thing now and he thinks it’s shockingly under valued as a (delicious, and nutritious) food source!
He’s been a member of the Association of Foragers for the past six years, and has four A-Levels! When he’s not cooking, Jon’s out on his kayak – freediving and filming underwater, camping on mountains, and rock climbing… And sometimes dancing to EDM!