Age: 31

Profession: Rewilding Facilitator, NSW

Quote: “This is not a weekend hobby for me, it’s a lifestyle.”

Home for Eva is a rustic, off-grid cabin in the hinterlands of NSW, where she lives with her partner. It is here where she thrives on sharing her passion for all things wild and igniting adventure and joy in others through her own outdoor education school.

Eva’s deep connection with nature came later in life. Shaped by city and party culture in her youth, she discovered the natural world as a young adult. This revelation completely shifted her path; she left her former life behind to embrace the wilderness, which now defines both her lifestyle and work. As a rewilding facilitator, Eva leads workshops to help others reconnect with nature.

For the past six years, she’s lived mostly outdoors, immersing herself in bushcraft, building projects, and tanning animal skins for clothing and homewares. Her self-sufficient lifestyle is tightly woven with her local community of like-minded individuals, living almost entirely off the land. She forages for wild greens daily and feeds on cicadas, witchetty grubs, moths, and ants. Eva regularly eats wild meat, including deer and kangaroo, and is skilled in processing and using every part of an animal. Despite her comfort with hunting, she’s never had to hunt bigger game for herself. Fishing and foraging will be her focus, but she’ll be trapping anything she can to ensure a food supply.

The prize money would mean a more comfortable off-grid lifestyle, but more importantly for Eva, this is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to go deeper than ever into her connection with nature.