ReStory – Your Restoration Stories

A letter to the President in the times of the Corona Virus

April 21, 2020 admin 0 Comments Corona virus, food security, hope, pandemic, regenerative agriculture, response, restoration, water

A letter to the President from Prof. James Blignaut. In the times of the Corona Virus we need to see the light that Regenerative Agriculture provides.

Biodiversity, nature, climate Economic

Restoration of the land and the people in Vanwyksdorp

May 27, 2020May 27, 2020 admin 0 Comments community upliftment, Conservation Management Services, Jobs for Carbon, restoration, soil erosion, soil infiltration, soil rehabilitation, spekboom, training, Vanwyksdorp

The community of Vanwyksdorp, a little agricultural village in the heart of the arid Little Karoo, was stuck in a status quo of depopulation of rural agriculture, unemployment, poverty and helplessness. Vanwyksdorp has a good school but the situation was exacerbated by the annual exodus of school leavers, full of knowledge and expectations, only to find a world of closed doors and very few or no opportunities.

Land and food

Nepo SA: The restoration dream continues… to become a reality

March 2, 2020March 2, 2020 admin 2 Comments conservation agriculture, food facilitation, Growing Nations Trust, maize, Nepo, networking, non-GM, Pure Pap, soya

ReStory narrator: Jaap Knot Nepo SA is a start-up company run by myself and my wife as a closed corporation.

Land and food

Restoring a dream: the journey of a smallholder into regenerative farming – Part 1

March 2, 2020March 2, 2020 admin 2 Comments conservation agriculture, Lesotho, maize, non-GM, regenerative agriculture, smallholder, soya

ReStory narrator: Jaap Knot, Ladybrand I am an agriculturist facilitating the implementation of Conservation Agriculture (CA). It is relatively easy

Economic

Hebron Mango Tree Growers

March 2, 2020March 2, 2020 admin 1 Comment community development, food security, funding, Hebron, livelihoods, mangoes, small-scale farmers

ReStory Narrator: Precious Chauke Cooperative background Hebron Mango Tree Growers is a cooperative based in Hebron, in the North West

Biodiversity, nature, climate

Saving Critically Endangered Peninsula Granite Fynbos from extinction at Tokai Park, Cape Town

February 10, 2020February 14, 2020 admin 0 Comments City of Cape Town, critically endangered, Peninsula Granite Fynbos, restoration, Table Mountain National Park, Tokai Park, volunteers

Peninsula Granite Fynbos is wholly confined to the City of Cape Town and found only on the lower, more fertile slopes of Table Mountain on the Cape Peninsula. Peninsula Granite Fynbos is perhaps best symbolised on Table Mountain by the Silver Tree, but is also incredibly rich in plant species and contains nine endemic species, all threatened with extinction: Unistem Aristea (Critically Endangered), Granite Cape Flax (Critically Endangered), Crown-climbers Friend (Rare), Small-flowered doll-rose (Rare), Spreading Everfig (Vulnerable), and Bakoven Brightfig (Vulnerable). Peninsula Granite Fynbos was also the home of the Wynberg Conebush and Table Mountain Widow Reed, but these species have been wiped out as a result of housing and agricultural developments and are now extinct.

Biodiversity, nature, climate

Cork oak forest restoration in the Maamora cork oak forest in Morocco (June to December 2019)

February 3, 2020February 3, 2020 admin 0 Comments cork oak, forest planting, game farm, management plan, Morocco, overgraze, overharvest, rabbits, rehabilitation, unsustainable

While working on a management plan for a hunting farm (situated between the Mediterranean Sea in the North and the Atlas mountains in the South) in Morocco, North Africa, we came across a valiant effort to restore the Maamora cork oak forest. This forest has been subjected to overharvesting and overgrazing for many decades.

Biodiversity, nature, climate

Passive restoration of Critically Endangered Cape Flats Sand Fynbos at lower Tokai Park section of Table Mountain National Park, Cape Town

January 13, 2020January 20, 2020 admin 3 Comments Cape Flats Sand Fynbos, Cape Town, fire management, fynbos, restoration, Table Mountain National Park, Tokai Park, volunteers

ReStory narrators: Megan Smith, Dr Alanna Rebelo & Dr Tony Rebelo Cape Flats Sand Fynbos (CFSF) is the most threatened

Biodiversity, nature, climate General

Returning past glory: How the Cape Mountain Zebra returned to the Baviaanskloof

December 13, 2019December 13, 2019 admin 0 Comments Baviaanskloof, Baviaanskloof Hartland Bewarea, landowners, natural capital, private investors, Quagga, Reintroduce

Amidst increasingly challenging environmental and economic conditions, the reintroduction of a herd of Cape mountain zebra brought inspiration to the western Baviaanskloof farming community.

Featured Land and food

Breeding resilience amongst all odds

December 13, 2019December 13, 2019 admin 0 Comments arid, Baviaanskloof, degraded, ostrich, regenerative agriculture, restoration, rosemary, spekboom

I have decided that the degradation that took place will not determine my future. The sun is setting on a degraded past and rising to a restorative future. We are the generation that must act; I acted on my farm. This is was able to do with the help of a large number of people, including the Subtropical Thicket Restoration Programme, the restoration unit of Rhodes University, Living Lands, and the Government of South Africa.

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