The Incredible "10% Rule" That Every Gardener Should Use for Re-wilding Your Land

(Note: originally posted September 2021). Apparently September is "Organics Month" (who knew!). I can celebrate anything that helps us all live more lightly on the planet with greater health for us, and the other life forms we share the planet with. Here's a sweet video about bringing rewilding down to the personal level; what each of us can achieve in our own backyards and gardens. It can be intimidating to think that one's own small actions don't really make a difference but as oft-quoted Margaret Mead says so powerfully: 

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Here is a brief description of the video described by its maker, Huw Richards, an organic gardener in England, followed by the link to watch...

"Today's video is something I have been wanting to make for a while to really explore how we as vegetable gardeners can help create more space for wildlife, specifically pollinators whilst also improving food production. The 10% rule is a very simple way that we can make a small change that will lead to great results and is something I feel every vegetable gardener should do on an annual basis. Little steps quickly add up to big changes that make such an incredible difference in the veg garden."

The Incredible "10% Rule" That Every Gardener Should Use 

 

 

Peter Owen Jones: Beyond Nations, Ownership and Competition

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Imagine a world in which the care of the earth, sky and seas becomes a higher priority than profits, creature-comforts and our personal 'portfolio'. We can kid ourselves that a life in service to our personal family's well-being is a life well-lived. But it's time we moved beyond this narrow definition of "family"; move beyond our identification with a school, an employer or a nation as our 'tribe' and see that, until we live as though the web of life is our family, the natural world is our tribe, we will continue to degrade our planet and the legacy we had hoped to leave for our children will be bankrupt and dead.

Please watch this short, rousing Ted-talk by Peter Owen Jones in which he addresses these topics and more.