Rewilding: Letting Nature take Over
Charlie Burell inherited NEP Castle in England in 1983. His family has lived in it for over 200 hundred years. The castle sits on 3500 acres which Charlie and his wife initially farmed, but found they could not compete with the bigger businesses. They then turned to rewilding, a concept in land management to allow wildlife and natural processes to reclaim areas. The results are as amazing as, well, it is nature itself.
Click here to see the Rewilding youtube from CBS Sunday Morning. It is 7:12 minutes.
Forest Regeneration
Another forest regeneration project is the subject of “Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest,” produced by Happen Films. This project is in New Zealand. The documentary, posted four years ago, is 29:38 minutes.
Click here to view the documentary on Youtube.
Regenerative Farming
What is regenerative farming? It is “an alternative to to modern industrial agriculture that prioritizes conserving and rehabilitating the land, tailoring specific practices to local ecosystems and climates. As with sustainable agriculture, regenerative agriculture focuses on reducing the impact of production on the land, but regenerative farming goes further by also actively improving the health of the soil….Regenerative practices help protect farmers’ livelihoods, the global food supply, biodiversity, and the health of the planet.” We might call it simply farming, but in this age of mechancial and large, the natural route needs naming.