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Restoration of the land and the people in Vanwyksdorp

May 27, 2020January 15, 2021 admin 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.

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Breeding resilience amongst all odds

December 13, 2019January 15, 2021 admin 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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Thicket restoration plot explorer

September 26, 2019January 15, 2021 admin apps, biodiversity, monitoring, restoration, spekboom, technology, thicket

ReStory narrator: Anthony Mills The South African government has funded the restoration of more than ten thousand hectares of degraded

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The Subtropical Thicket Restoration Project

September 4, 2019January 15, 2021 admin Gamtoos Valley Thicket, Havens Cambria, restoration, spekboom

ReStory narrator: Mike Powell

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Wisdom of the Ages

December 1, 2022December 1, 2022 admin

Two weeks ago the man who some describe as a founding father of Regenerative Agriculture was in South Africa giving a number of Master Classes. It was a privilege to sit for two days and listen to a man who has a global following but doesn’t want to be guru; who has enormous experience but admits he doesn’t know all the answers; who doesn’t believe that his way is the only way, but who does want to share his experience; who shared his belief of how farming should be a marriage with nature, approached as one approaches a responsive lover, not as a warrior engages with an enemy.

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