Agri-Wilding

Agri-Wilding, originally coined by a woman called Rebecca Hoskins stated

"We should not simply set aside farms to make way for wildlife. Instead, we should see agriculture and ourselves as part of nature and integrate"

Mine/Our journey on the land at 42 Acres has shown me that we all have unique elements and gifts we bring to a land project.

Whether we put our hands in the soil or not or echo energetic resonance influences the tapestry and field upon which we all exists. This is true of everyone everywhere.

Our unique expression of agri-wilding came through the initial setup of a no-dig garden of vegetables, medicinal hedges, and crops, providing a home for wild native honey bees in different types of hives, edimental gardening, combining storytelling and beauty, and last but not least ancient Japanese technique micro-mushroom farming cultivating native strains. Finally as a way to capture and channel the harvest, last year we also built our Tiny Wild Kitchen here, where we make our unique medicinal product range.

Land projects are the sum of several core factors, the human constellation, resources that can be broken down into different areas including spiritual and cultural resources, and the land's pre-disposition, history, and innate nature upon which all else rests.

These three core factors humans, resources, and land weave together to create a fabric that is the nature of re-wilding projects, farms or any land-based community or enterprise.

As a witness and co-creator of the project, it's been a journey, a challenge, and an honour and I am not the same person who stepped onto the site at 31. My capacity for patience, learning, humility, and sitting with and seeing how things emerge has grown exponentially.

Witnessing the combined aspects of agriculture and re-wilding makes it hard to fully express the profundity that I feel privy to on a daily basis. I see more and more species arrive as we gently tend the land in our various guises. As I have tended and paused I receive more and more clarity from the land as to what to do next and how to pace my work and myself and although I often go into my head, the more I lean into the resource around me the easier it becomes to act in service and from gratitude to all of life.

Each aspect of our work has its compromises and its important to share a story of navigation and explorations rather than a concept that we have "all the answers". It feels like a lifetime of work, and it takes loving individuals to dedicate to a life in relationship with nature, however, that manifests for each one of us.

What is possible is only limited by our greatest imaginings, we may not see the full fruits of the seeds we sow now but never has there been a more important time to sow our intentions for our collective futures. Here are some of the stories of the individual projects we co-hold and publications we have been part of.

Tasha, (Founder of Land, Food, and Medicine)