21.03.2024 - Indoor Meeting : Wild Ken Hill

Speaker: Dominic Buscall
Reporter: Sue Gale
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Dominic Buscall, a founder of Wild Ken Hill, gave a very popular and well-received talk about what they do there and about some of their current projects. The farm has developed over the last 5 or 6 years, from its original state of 75% arable crops and 25% wood and wetland to the current 3 areas of land management. The challenges were to do something about worsening biodiversity, exacerbated by the climate crisis, and to do this in a financially viable way, made possible by support from Natural England and the new farm subsidies which mean that work for the environment can at last be paid for. The three areas at Wild Ken Hill are: 1.
the rewilding area; 2. wetland and coastal scrub; and 3. farming using regenerative agriculture.

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