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Rewilding: Threat or promise for hill farming?

Sustainable Food Trust

The environmental and financial problems of the hill farming sector have been written about exhaustively, so I won’t expand on them here – other than to say that while hill farming has a central role to play in socially and ecologically vibrant landscapes, a major shift towards agroecological practices is needed to realise this.

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SEEN IN SOUTH AFRICA

The Lunatic Farmer

Of course, I’m always going to speak so my hosts take care of meals, lodging, tickets, etc. What I do is visit farms and look for cutting edge practical ecological solutions. With its abundant sunshine, I assumed lots of rural folks would be investing in solar panels to make up for the rolling blackouts. Who needs knick-knacks?

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