permaculture

[Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>]

This really got me interested; somehow it stuck a familiar note even though
I have only a six acre estate.

‘People think you’re an idiot’: death metal Irish baron rewilds his estate
| Conservation | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/07/people-think-youre-an-idiot-death-metal-irish-baron-rewilds-his-estate?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR0JY2bVLywt5o9EswHoLfLpmd1BY2hynC3MfLZ_SLTO1ZRv7NMk8iC6YIM#Echobox=1628857720

Trees, grasses and wildlife are returning as Lord Dunsany recreates a
vanished landscape in County Meath

Randal Plunkett strides through the hip-high grass of Dunsany, a
650-hectare (1,600-acre) estate in the middle of Ireland
<https://www.theguardian.com/world/ireland>, trailed by an invisible swarm
of midges and his four jack russell terriers: Tiny, Lumpy, Chow and Beavis
& Butt-Head.

The cattle and sheep are long gone, so too are the lawns and many of the
crops. In their place is a riot of shrubs, flowers and trees, along with
insects and creatures that call this fledgling wilderness their home.

It is probably Ireland <https://www.theguardian.com/world/ireland>’s most
ambitious attempt at rewilding on private land, an attempt to recreate a
vanished landscape in a swath of County Meath, 20 miles north-west of
Dublin.