Save the soil!!! Great video, everything you said pertains to farmers around the U.S.. As a ranchhand in texas on a cattle farm, I get to see these outdated practices first hand. Farmers here farm like strip mining. It hurts my heart. I think back to my biology classes when we learned basic food webs, and cascading effects. It’s hard for me to understand how ranchers and farmers here don’t give a second thought to the life beneath their feet, all for the sake of a profit. I have been implementing sustainable practices and letting my grandparents 250 acre farm go wild. I have a plenty more to learn, however with great speakers such as yourself and sustainable agriculture advocates here in the us. I hope to make our small farm sustainable, wild, and profitable. Hopefully this will invoke change with surrounding farmers. Thank you for this video!!!!
The most wonderful and inspiring thing I've discovered for as long as I can recall. Everyone should know about this! Well done to all at Knepp. You give us hope about saving and restoring our wildlife and landscape. Thank you!!
My take is that people never think to 'google' anything on You Tube. You Tube is an amazing resource and is acknowledged as part of the 'intellectual drak web' that is a more informed and thoughtprovoking media than what is available via tv, radio and the papers. I follow many subjects and jornalists and am always shocked by how few views there are too. Hopefully, this will change.
Isabella's methods seem like common sense rather than cutting edge science What an uplifting plan for the future. My spirit soars!. It has taken a very long time since the first book on the dangers of intensive farming called "the silent Spring" (if it was the first) in the 1960s for a new way of farming to be tried. Anne Fitzgerald's article in the Irish Independent's farming supplement was where I heard about this revolution. I cant wait to read the book!
Isabella Tree on radio 4 desert Island Discs-Everyone should listen to this!! Truly courageous and inspirational. Yes I agree This gives us hope. Mother definitely nature knows best. Please keep doing what you are doing A hundred thousand thank yous
Wonderful presentation,and your book is an inspiration.Proving its much better to light a penny candle than curse the darkness well done to all who contributed to bring this project to fruition. As a farmer we have to start looking deeper than our standard operating procedures to secure a viable future for our fragile little planet.
fascinating and inspirational .I hope there will be enough governmental support to expand this across as much of the country as possible- time is running out !. At present I fear the present government is perhaps not the best to rely on to help.
I think it is fantastic what you are doing and I thank you for doing it. It would be nice to see mayflies in abundance and Moths buzzing around the porch light, or look up at night and see Bats whizzing around. if more people where able to follow your lead, there could be hope for us. Thank you again.
It's worth noting that Chalk Downland habitat harbours some of the greatest biodiversity found in the world, often described as European rainforest. Up to 40 species of plant in a single square metre, which cascade benefits to other fauna. The UK itself has around 50% of the worlds Chalk Grasslands. Since the continuous settlement of humans in the UK, the vast swathes of Chalk Grasslands present for most of this time, were created and maintained as a man-made, waste product of people farming the land extensively with sheep. Sheep were introduced to the UK by humans and their grazing behaviours, as an alpine grazing animal, created an artificial alpine environment for species rich Chalk Downland.
Inspiring and visionary on one hand, but Isabella is in a privileged position as successful author and married to Charles Burrell 10th Baronet and owner of the 3500 acre Knepp Estate. It will be a very hard task convincing poor tenant farmers and their land owners to try this method
Also check out this talk that Sir Charles Burrell gave to the Oxford Farming Conference in January of this year. About 16.28 mins is where he covers the money and profit. Way above farmings average. I think they make a good arguement for how to farm on substandard soils. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KKULhLWg_Bk.html
Given the choice between making a loss on intensive agriculture, or making a profit on less intensive agriculture, why not? The yields will be lower but it saves a lot of money, not having to pay for GMO seeds, herbicide, pesticide, fungicide, fertilizer, irrigation, machinery. It also saves a lot of time and effort on the part of the farmer. The only company making money on the current system is Monsanto. Screw 'em.
Great idea but I notice you edited out the bit about sacking ten farmworkers how many jobs have you created all very well for you and all the urban rewilders but what about jobs for people who live and work in the country or are. we expendable
Very patronising farmworkers are not manual labourer s they drive machinery worth tens. Of thousands most of it computerised they don't need re-education or handouts just decent jobs I think rewilding i juston poor land is a great idea I plant trees for a living but I don't trust big farmers I've worked on the land all my life and they look after number one they've been paid to destroy the country side now they want praise for job rewilding I just think job creation should be an important part of these schemes and as the old saying goes people with full bellies think they don't need farming
