'Jake Fiennes is changing the face of farming in Britain... a
revolutionising force' Isabella Tree
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Our relationship with our land is broken: we must heal it.**
Jake Fiennes is on a mission to change the face of the English
countryside. As Conservation Manager at Holkham in Norfolk, one of the
country's largest historic country estates, his radical habitat
restoration and agricultural work has nurtured its species and risen its
crop yields - bringing back wetlands, hedgerows, birds and butterflies
over 25,000 acres of land.
But this isn't rewilding - there is no 'wild' in Britain anymore. Mass
farming, crop science and industrial chemicals have destroyed the
majority of our natural landscape and wildlife over the last century.
Land Healer is the story of Fiennes's ambition to bring back our flora
and fauna - by reclaiming our traditions and trialling new experiments
which could restore our symbiosis with our land, and save our shared
future.
Following the farming year and the natural cycle of the seasons, Land
Healer chronicles a life of conservation lived at the edges, and is a
manifesto for rethinking our relationship with the natural world before
it's too late.
