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Land Healer

How Farming Can Save Britain’s Countryside

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Land Healer

By: Jake Fiennes
Narrated by: Jake Fiennes
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Brought to you by Penguin.

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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mostly I prefer authors reading their books but due to Jake's serious dyslexia, I think a voice actor might've been a better choice as his narration is very stilted. Once I got used to it and accepted listening at a slower pace, it was an interesting book.

stilted narration, once you get into it it's good

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Thank you Jake for sharing your expertise and story with us. I enjoyed the listen on a long car journey and the slow pace of the reading worked well for me. It harbours some valuable insights and left me with hope and gives practical solutions to landowners, as we all face the huge and overwhelming dilemma of habitat loss and environmental emergency. Jake has listened and observed the land closely, making positive changes at 'the edge' of north Norfolk. Now we need landowners to collaborate and facilitate changes for a better future.

A valuable study from wonderful north Norfolk

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