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To support our goal of city wilding, we visit other urban and rural planting projects to hear about their ideas and gain inspiration.
We also share tips, thoughts and pics on this blog, and will document our commissioned projects here.
Could this be the end of concrete jungles?
Humans don’t like mess or uncertainty, and natural systems are dynamic, complex, untidy and erratic. We must learn to read their inconvenience as a sign that all is well. We should be embracing the mess.
Some green reading
Here, in no particular order, are some books which have caught my imagination and shaped my thinking in 2020.
Wilding at Knepp: the mother ship
The land at Knepp moves, grubbed up and trampled by free-ranging pigs, seeds splatting into the upturned soil in cowpats, hedges thickening into gorgeous groves.
‘The first law of ecology is that everything is connected to everything else.’
— Nan Shepherd, The Living Mountain