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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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Pienaars River: Camdeboo National Park

November 4, 2019January 15, 2021 admin Camdeboo National Park, Pienaars Rivier, training

ReStory narrator: Ken Coetzee The Pienaars Rivier project is one of many undertaken by the now retired manager of the

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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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