How do you actually rewild a property? | FT Food Revolution 

What we all going to eat mate ?

@@truthandfreedom9849 Food. Food can and is grown in rewilded forest systems. The people in the video were selling beef. Cattle can be managed to sequester carbon in the soil and their actions in the landscape become beneficial. There are other forest crops like mushrooms, both edible and medicinal, and nuts. Chestnuts, for example, 2 mature trees producing nuts that have a similar nutritional profile to grain, can replace all grain for 1 person for a year. Mature tree means 25 years or older. The old forest chestnut giants produce more than enough nuts each for more than one person a year. If one rewilds thoughtfully, choosing a high proportion of edible species, plenty of food is produced. Just because some places are being rewilded does not mean all agriculture disappears.

@@permiebird937 you need to do some research Mate .... They are throttling the food supply and using rewilding as an excuse ... You will be eating bugs just so you can look at bison .... Most stupid swop ever

@@permiebird937 also ... What exactly do we do for food for the next 25 years while the 60 millions chestnut trees grow? Also is there even room for 60 million chestnut trees and still room for other stuff as well? I don't think so chum you clearly are talking propagandistic rubbish

@Truth And Freedom We eat other foods as we slowly transition from the current system to a new regenerative system. That is the only reasonable way, and likely to take more than 25 years, regardless. Besides Chestnuts are only one example of edible tree crops. There is a lot of education that will be needed to accompany new food systems. There is easily room for 60 million chestnuts. They can be grown in cities, suburbs and the countryside, and other crops, like hazelnuts, mushrooms, a number of berry varieties, pigs, sheep, goats, and cattle can all live and thrive under the chestnuts. You get multiple crops out of a single piece of land. The way that the current food system abuses the soil is leaving the world in a situation where we only have about 50 years left of crop yields before these overworked soils become too degraded to continue to feed humanity. We already use all the arable croplands on the planet, and frequently build on those lands making them unusable for food production. What is your solution? What I am suggesting is already being successfully done in places like some of the sites in the video, plus a lot others spread around the world. If you are so ready to dismiss a successful climate beneficial food system, what do you propose be done?

Yea im seeing a whole range of different defintions of "rewilding",some are calling just planting anything in your garden or flower pots rewilding while others say you must not touch anything at all and let nature take over. In my area,south west of Ireland any place that is left alone to nature just becomes completely covered in brambles,gorse,rushes,ferns,ivy and moss and not much of anything else gets a chance to grow as the light is cut out.Tried only cutting the lawn in september but all i got each year was long grass!! (what a shock)Not the Van Gogh type meadows ive been promised. so from now on im just intervening and planting what i want,I suspect a lot of these "100% rewilding" projects are sneakily doing the same aswell!

Yes, we had the good luck to be able to acquire a smallholding on the edge of the Peak District about 25 years ago and we have planted a few thousand trees concentrating on about 30 truly native species omitting only those that are unlikely to survive in this area. We also have areas that have been left untouched to allow a woodland edge environment. The process takes time and we are only now starting to see the benefits.

@@Gos1234567 Are there any large agricultural areas nearby or a river or small minor stream nearby with large agricultural areas upstream? Because what youve described seems like a problem I personally have too with my small meadow and the root of this problem is the soil having to much nutritions because of the fields nearby which get fertilized regurarely. The fertilizier puts to much nutritions in the soil which benefits grasses which supress other plants like flowers so it always ends up as just large grass. I personally countered it by making a large bed with stone walls where I seed flowers every spring. The stone walls create a habitat for many species like lizards or insects or mice and the flowers can grow there undisturbed. The bed is in place for like 2 years now and the amount of insects and other species like birds has (sadly only slightly since its a large area of fields and grass lands and my bed isnt that big) increased and noe finally wild flowers start to thrive slightly better in the other areas of my land which was purely grass land. So from my personal experience I could suggest you to mix classical rewilding with your own artifical support in order to create a good garden. Your artificial support is meant to cancel out the bad effects other humans nearby have and then nature can do the rest. Thats the typical definition of rewildiing too, giving it a kickstarter like a flowerbe3d or rewilding bisons and the rest is natures play.

People also need space to live somewhere

This goon obviously hasn't met many farmers if he thinks big corporations handle even half of it.....

bugger off mate. no human deserves to live in such a tyranny.

And what shall people eat?

@Dell Wright Great. And the rest of the re-wilding projects across the country?

planting trees are good

never seen the real significant results but only written text

There is no "just this" or "just that." Each damaged habitat requires it's own approach. Sometimes it's planting trees, sometimes it's cutting them, sometimes both. Sometimes it's flooding the area, sometimes it's draining it, sometimes it's restoring the right flooding-draining cycle. This is why we need ecologists. Watch "Mossy earth" videos, they explain it.

@@Kurtlane Above that, what you've said my friend, is "just plant trees and plant plant plant". In Scandinavia is just that result. There was no such thing-like INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION BLA BLA in Scandinavia. You can introduce Tigers here in Scandinavia.

@@tadasblindavicius8889 The "just plant trees" has backfired incredibly in many places including scandinavia because the plantations are practically non-native monocultures and have severly reduced biodiversity.

@@SpaceMonkeyMDVireland,the sitka spruce and they ruin the land!!

The plant trees approach is what has ruined german forests. Germany was likely covered by 80% of forest in ancient times and has decreased to like 5% in the 1600s due to human cutting down all the wood, so humans started to replant trees, favoring the ones growing as fast as possible... Essentially creating monocultures of sometimes not native trees, ending up killing the biodiversity even more than it had already suffered during the large plain period. Planting trees is a good approach but it has to be thought through well

Yeah at Knepp they sell some of the meat, so they are carefully controlling the numbers of these animals.

you can only take my Liberty from from my COLD DEAD HANDS.

I'll fight you on the pastures.

And where will thoes calories come from that arnt coming from meat anymore ?? Vege farming takes 4 times more space to make same calories as meat ...... You will starve us all to death with your cultish thinking

I would also fight to the death for meat so I hope Ur in training Mr Vege cos I am

I was vegetarian for 40 years and vegan for 4. But veganism near killed me. I was so unwell last Christmas and my husband, whom I persuaded to become vegan at the same time, ended up in hospital for 17 days. We returned to eating fish and dairy, and feel a great deal better. When I was a vegetarian/vegan, I never, ever persuaded anyone outside my family to do as we did. I never pushed either vegetarianism or veganism, even on my closest friends. I regret persuading my husband, as he now has what I fear may be a permanent consequence of my decision (which I did because I wanted to make mealtimes simpler for me). So... Moral of the story is, keep your dietary opinions to yourself and don't tell other people what they can and cannot eat. A purely plant based diet doesn't suit everyone. I now feel better than I have in 'decades,' during which time I had thought I was merely suffering from the effects of increasing age. It was diet to blame. If people want to eat meat, let them. If they don't, let them. It's the quality of food that needs to change. Too much sugar, too many snacks, too much modified starch and industrialised vegetable oils. Too many additives - all to make people feel hungry for more - which is why so many people in the world are so fat, diabetic, subject to allergies and food intolerances. It's all connected. The better the quality of food you eat - the less you want. I only have 2 meals a day now, because I only buy the best I can afford and grow the rest. Instead of which, the food industry deliberately laces food with addictive substances to turn people into 'grazers.' More grazers in the world - the more land put over to agriculture. Blame the corrupt food industry - not what people choose to eat. Oh, and if you're vegan and like all those vegan burgers and other vegan fake meats, just turn that packet over, look at that immensely long ingredients list, and tell me if you know for absolutely sure if all those ingredients really are 'safe' to eat.

Thanks for adding this. Even from the video when they stated that it was "rewilding" when there were no predators (and other hallmarks of actual rewilding) involved had me raise an eyebrow and then the irony of having a segment about greenwashing at the end got me lol

Maybe if you paid attentiion while you where there you'd have learned its supposed to be like that. Britain and Europe weren't covered in continuous woodland but it was more woodland with patches of savannah which Knepp is trying to emuate hence why they keep the open spaces open with large herbivores.Also its only been 20 years since they started you can't expect the land to reover from intensive agriculture so easiliy.

@@SpaceMonkeyMDV Nope Britain would have been totally covered in woodland apart from some mountaineous areas

They show a clip of a cow munching away at a tree so im wondering how can this really work if they basically eat everything?

@@Gos1234567 Correct. Of course, England would naturally have deer and bovines (ancient cows etc) but with predators like wolves and lynx around a- the population is controlled and b- the herbivores are constantly being moved around thanks to the 'landscape of fear' so there is no scenario where they can just sit in one place and eat everything down to millimetres off the ground

What nitrogen crisis? Do you mean the overuse of nitrogen?

nonsense

I would vote for you and live in your country. Alas, why are we doomed to pavement?

@@kellychuba wildlife,a life with sacrifice of materialise world

😂That's harsh...but funny!

ok you're an expert after just hearing about this one month ago FFS

@@Gos1234567 ok, you're bitter. I don't know why.

Omigosh. You missed the whole point in favor of being a negative grumpus.

@@kathynj6479 , what's the point? If this basic note of caution sounds like negative grumping to you, you haven't seen anything negative yet. But you will. I'm sorry if I don't fit your expectations. But so be it. I am what I am. I've been used and fooled too many times to be a cheerful trusting fool.

Our front yard was mostly lawn when we moved here 16 years ago. It had a nice pin oak which has continued to grow and support lots of wild birds and squirrels. We began to take out lawn and replacing it with native plants to attract native bees, butterflies, moths and a host of beneficial insects. Also persimmon trees, elderberry bush, winterberry, Asian pear (not native but a nice food source for us), serviceberry, red and black chokeberry and flowering dogwood were added or left to grow as birds introduced then to our front yard. Cedar waxwings ate our neighbors serviceberries, sat in our pin oak, pooped and we’ve been sharing serviceberry trees ever since. Rewilding can have many looks and meanings. As we share our stories maybe we can keep improving its meaning and benefit for all. This was just our front yard; you should see the other 3 sides of our house. 😁

Nope, not like sri lanka.

They aren't really abandoning it though. They're just turning it into a garden with a dark ages vibe.

carbon? LOLOL

@Dell Wright Non-intensive = inefficient. If you want to reduce emissions in the food chain, then grow vegetables, not livestock.

@@jeffbrunswick5511 an efficient system run at unsustainable scale (i.e. the current one) is more damaging than an allegedly inefficient system. But that's besides the point - studies show that re-wilding approaches ARE more efficient than the traditional non-closed system approaches. Why do people like you never do your own research? It took me 5 minutes to find papers (for example Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt et. al. Trophic rewilding as a climate change mitigation strategy? published in The Royal Society) backing up this perspective: rewilding can mitigate emission-driven climate change by a) naturally replacing domestic livestock species with wild species of similar biomass to produce less overall methane (aka 'biodiverse systems are better') b) reducing the frequency of wildfire driven by overgrazing which causes emissions through biomass burning but also, importantly, by increased albedo (look it up) - although the overall scale of potential benefit is admittedly unclear c) stopping the net removal of nutrients from soil (you people love to argue for current systems of large-scale production without realising that the quality of said produce is drastically declining) d) preventing and reversing loss of vegetation which acts as a carbon sink, i.e. the carbon sequestration benefit covered in this video. DO YOUR RESEARCH AND BE A PART OF THE SOLUTION, NOT THE PROBLEM.

@@5h5hz If you want to reduce emissions, grow vegetables and eat them yourself instead of feeding them to an animal that you later eat. The world human population is out of control. 1 billion people in 1900 and >12 billion by the end of this century. Rewilding a farm will achieve nothing compared to the global population increase.

@@jeffbrunswick5511 I don't disagree with any of that...

If they don't, then it's not really rewilding so

We're the top predators.

Sitting on your couch, saying "Ah that's rubbish". How British.

We've been a net importer of food since the repeal of the corn laws in 1846. Turning over 1% of farmland land to rewilding will not shift the dial much given the potential benefits.

The people crossing the English Channel don't pay any attention to caps or laws of any type!

@@schumanhumanso won't more carbon be produced when we have to import all our food ???? You contradicting yourself... Also you want to make our already precarious food supply under even more strain ?? Why can't a less densely populated country do this instead ?? We cannot afford to loose any more food production land .....

@@truthandfreedom9849 'so won't more carbon be produced when we have to import all our food ' Losing 1% of farmland obviously won't mean we import all our food. Farmers would use the least productive/fertile land for such purposes so the reduction in produce would likely be

@@schumanhuman it starts with 1% you mug ..... You simply contradicting yourself and the only way it will work is if you eat bugs ...... Which is what they are pushing so I hope you like being hungry and eating bugs in the name of a blatant scam ......

Yes. They were there as a few sticks in a flailed hedgerow before flailing stopped and they were allowed to grow-out . Or as acorns & other tree seeds, which the deer and rabbits couldn't get to to destroy because of the fencing. Tomy knowledge they absolutely have not planted ANY TREES, SHRUBS or PLANTS AT ALL.😮

Yes, let's just pretend there were no trees there at all before they began rewilding. Did you miss the point in favor of being cynical?

Dave. Read the book, visit then change your mind.