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Unified Action

In a divided world where environmental objectives and food production appear to be mutually exclusive, it’s easy to be driven to apathy and inaction by loud dissenting voices fixed on their solution being the only option.

Regenerating Upland Landscapes

Wilderculture CIC is a not-for-profit organisation with a radical unifying plan for the regeneration of marginal and upland areas of the UK and Europe.

Food production or nature restoration? Let’s do both better. Food production or nature restoration? Let’s do both better.

An Integrated Approach

Food production or nature restoration? On a rapidly degrading planet, the idea of sparing land ‘for nature’ while intensively producing food elsewhere offers a false choice! We can and are doing both better.

Bespoke Regenerative Design

In nature, there is no one size fits all. Nature adapts to every biome and set of conditions. We use regenerative design principles to create management plans that are like the unique fingerprint of the people and place.

Decentralised Ownership

Nature shows us that complex, diverse systems offer resilience. Our mission is to influence rather than buy up land because diversity in ownership is essential to creating vibrant rural communities and fostering human ingenuity.

Keystone Systems thinkers

When landowners and managers become systems thinkers and act as keystone species, then food production can be rewilded, and nature conservation can become more dynamic. Such people create resilient, healthful landscapes.

Restoring Whole System Function

Natural systems are highly productive, powered by rainfall and sunshine due to complexity and dynamism - the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, and pests and diseases are self-regulating. We restore whole system function at landscape scale.

Self Regenerating

Farms that transition to Wilderculture become resilient, profitable, self-regenerating enterprises where people thrive. The farm and its people are more able to evolve and adapt and therefore depend less on grants and subsidies.

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“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

R. Buckminster Fuller

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What should we do with our uplands? It’s a hot topic that can lead to circular debates and heated feuds. Learn more about our approach in the new blog article.
#rewilding #regenerativeagriculture #countryside #hillfarming #countrysport https://wilderculture.com/what-is-best-for-our-uplands-why-context-matters/

Facing the Future: Regenerative farming in Cumbria.
Rheged Nov 10th
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Curious? Come along & be part of the debate.

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Up Coming Events

  • Wilderculture

    13 May 24 09:00 AM

    The Wilderculture Approach Transition – No1 in the series – The principles of regeneration

    In this two-day farm-based training led by Caroline Grindrod, you will learn the principles of regeneration. We cover how to assess the condition of your land and learn how to apply natural processes as tools to increase primary productivity, improve soil health, resilience to drought…

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our main goal

Transitioning 1 Million Hectares to Wilderculture.

On every ‘Wilder’ hectare, we can;

  • Regenerate soil to restore fertility and remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
  • Restore site-appropriate biodiversity.
  • Re-hydrate the landscape and restore biome-adapted natural climate cooling mechanisms.
  • Create profitable farms and estates that celebrate their cultural heritage and grow healthy nutrient dense food.
  • And create complex and dynamic wilder landscapes for people to experience and enjoy.
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Working with Wilderculture has helped us transform how we manage our sheep, cattle and ponies at Wild Haweswater. Working with Caroline has opened our eyes to the ways in which livestock help to promote healthy soils and landscapes and to the vital importance of rest. We are already seeing huge gains as a result of a shift to rotational grazing. The structure and composition of vegetation has improved and insect life is noticeably more abundant. It feels as if our land is becoming richer with every passing year.

Lee Schofield

Author of 'Wild Fell' and Senior Site Manager at RSPB Haweswater

Caroline’s bold vision for the future of Britain’s uplands makes her one of today’s most exciting writers on environment and nutrition. She is rigorous in her exploration of the science underpinning her arguments. Her contribution to the debate on the future of farming and the uplands is immense and invaluable.

Graham Harvey

Author Carbon Fields and Grass fed nation.

We have had numerous opportunities to see Caroline's work up close. She has an uncanny ability to discover the heart of an issue and then shape it into language that has impact. She has a solid understanding of holistic management and the Regen ag space. We highly recommend her

Jody Butterfield and Allan Savory

Savory Institute

Caroline has perhaps had as much influence on our farm as anyone in the past few years, through teaching us about soil and grassland management, and she deserves a sincere thanks.

James Rebanks

Author of English Pastoral

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