Bill Sutherland is a conservation scientist who has a YouTube channel where he posts short videos, each explaining an ecological concept and why it is important for conservation.
He recently visited Huxhams Cross Farm in Devon. Once described as a ‘miserable piece of land’, the farm is now thriving, its fruit, vegetables and wheat filling the plates of 300 families each week. Marina O’Connell’s Huxhams Cross shows the power of regenerative agriculture – farming that is not only sustainable, but restores the land.
Bill says that “One of the great legacies that Marina has left us is a lovely example of how effective this [approach] can be and how land can be transformed.”
Watch the Huxhams Cross Farm video below, and be sure to check out Bill’s YouTube channel here. It’s a very useful and interesting resource.
Further reading
In Designing Regenerative Food Systems, Marina O’Connell used the case study of her farm to show how dead soil can be transformed into a thriving fertile land.
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