I love looking out at our free-growing back yard in the morning and seeing it filled with birds, squirrels and bunnies foraging, while our neighbors' well-trimmed lawns sit still, lifeless, and not even pretty (all due respect to the grass).
Working your ass off to kill off nature when you could just sit and enjoy it and do positive good is one of those American things I'll never understand.
@NatureMC. Let’s get these watershed wizards back in the wild. Starting with modern beavers, then letting divergent evolution work. #rewilding,#Pleistocene.
I have now sown all the Calif native wildflower seeds that I bought, which was a lot! Coverage includes large areas of the slope and the other side of the driveway where I planted last year. I filled in some spots so that (hopefully!) both sides of that section of the driveway will be full of blooms. Last year's plants thickly re-seeded so I'm pretty excited!
Last year's plants brought bees, bumblebees, butterflies, and hummingbirds. And spectacular beauty.
“Through rewilding we hope to see people forming relationships with other life forms and ecologies. To us, rewilding is about opening to relationships – this makes us alive.”
In our latest piece, Helen Cushing interviews the team at Singapore landscape architecture firm Salad Dressing >>
Daily #Wales in winter from a frosty dog walk (snow no; black ice, yup arrggghhh).
This is Ffridd Rasus, ‘race field’ - loosely - which was, once upon a time, a racetrack. Then a WW2 military camp, now a tangle of birch and pine woods behind the tip. I do like a poetic location. So does Not My Labrador. Sniff potential off the chart.
For decades, beavers were considered pests – trapped & shot on sight. Now the attitude towards nature's best engineers is changing, & farmers are working to bring them back
If the elite capture, vaultification, and #enshittification of the Internet continues at its current pace, maybe the internet WILL end up just a passing fad at this rate like that May 2000 newspaper suggested.
(Sidenote: Elite captured medium recognized future elite captured medium in that headline)
Happy to be #rewilding the internet as much as possible..
I drove the only road through a bird paradise on the island where I live, with mudflats, water, safe dry areas, lots of shallow water, and marshy land.
"On December 8th, the American Chestnut Foundation (TACF) made a shocking announcement that it was withdrawing support for several pending regulatory petitions that authorize the distribution of the controversial transgenic American chestnut tree, called Darling 58, outside permitted research plots due to “significant performance limitations.”
"...TACF cited performance limitations for all Darling progeny, which included lack of blight resistance, unexplained high mortality rates, and poor growth."
Looks like the skeptics of genetics engineering were, once again, mostly correct in their critiques.
From my email archives: ReWilding Magazine on regenerative agriculture using trees to mitigate drought and environmental damage in Karnataka, India:
"With the 1000 Trees Project, Solanki has seen even the staunchest skeptics come around. Farmers who were earlier not in favour of digging trenches now admit that water harvesting has transformed their land. They are cognizant that trees regulate the temperature of their farms and the moisture in their soils, and saplings don’t need to be watered as much or as often because there is less evaporative loss. They have also started mulching to conserve water."
Catherine Cleary bought the cheapest land she could find in #Ireland & planted 24,000 native trees on it. Here she tells us why she's on a mission to make the world a better place, one #tree at a time
One of my projects for 2024: attempting to apply #RightsOfNature to the land we tend as a native plant sanctuary. If the land has legal personhood, they would be so much easier to protect and support for years to come, not dependent on particular humans.
If anyone has experience with this--especially in US-- and wants to offer assistance, let me know.
A downright outstanding reading list with all sorts of angles and takes on the rewilding movement. I knew rewilding was a thing, but didn't know that was the name for it. Check out and follow the mag here - @rewildingmag