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Land Healer

How Farming Can Save Britain’s Countryside

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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' 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.

©2022 Jake Fiennes (P)2022 Penguin Audio Biological Sciences Ecosystems & Habitats Environment Nature & Ecology Outdoors & Nature Science Conservation Ecosystem Habitat

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"One of the motive forces behind this new way of looking at the land." (Tony Juniper, chair of Natural England)

"Jake Fiennes is changing the face of farming in Britain...a revolutionising force." (Isabella Tree)
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We did enjoy this. It is a good insight into how rewilding can work on farms and estates. Sometimes just a slight change of tact can make a big difference to the wildlife. We all need to be more aware of our surroundings and this book demonstrates it clearly.

Fascinating

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a great overview of UK agricultural policy and how easy yo adapt elements to benefit nature

bird identigicstion

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The book covers an interesting topic but doesn't give nearly enough specific info about the author's methods or experience.
Despite being read by the author the narration is frustratingly sticky and doesn't flow well. A difficult listen.

Content is nothing new, narration frustrating

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Farmers with a mind to changing the way the they farm , too providing a place for wildlife to return. Should put this book on their shelf .
encouraging instruction.

farmer get reading.... !

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Brilliant book appallingly badly read by the author. PLEASE re-record this with a performer as the book is excellent and needs to be widely read.

NEVER LISTEN TO THIS BOOK, READ IT!

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