Bonus Episode 366. Rewilding | Acts of Restored Kindness | The Garden Awakening | Mary Reynolds | Ireland
[caption id="attachment_7794" align="aligncenter" width="200"] photo credit Claire Leadbitter @Irishforestgarden[/caption]\n\nHappy Inauguration Day Everyone! This is an episode you won't want to miss. Tired of Politics this is the interview for you. Taking our land back into our own hands Mary Reynolds shares golden seeds you are going to love.\n\nCheck out her amazing website at wearetheark.org\n\n \n\n\n\nARK - Acts of Restored Kindness\n\n#thisisanark and #letsbuildanark\n\nMary Reynolds\xa0is a reformed Irish landscape designer, bestselling author of\xa0\u2018The Garden Awakening\u2019\xa0and nature activist.\xa0Director Vivienne De Courcy made a movie \u2013\xa0\u2018Dare to be Wild\u2019 \u2013 about Mary\u2019s Chelsea Gold Medal winning adventures. Mary is a proud patron of\xa0Wildlife Rehabilitation Ireland\xa0(WRI) and strives to do as much as she can to re-educate people how to live in harmony with nature in their own patch of land \u2013 To become\xa0Guardians\xa0rather than Gardeners.\nw\nThe Garden Awakening: Designs to Nurture Our Land and Ourselves\nSteps to building an ark\n"If you can collect seeds from a local native woodland \u201cnursery\u201d within a 10 mile radius from your land, this is the best practice. Otherwise have a look at the local hedgerows as these can be hundreds of years old and bare-root cuttings, taken from these in winter, may be the better bet."\nStep 6.\xa0Let the scrubby messy thorny thickets be!\nLeave those brambles and other thorny natives emerge and thrive. They protect young trees and create wonderful sanctuary for many wild mammals. They are vital for the re-establishment of a native ecosystem. They provide shelter from the wind, protection from grazers such as deer to allow saplings to establish, they are powerful deep rooters that re-mineralise and restructure the soil and they are also great habitats and food sources for wildlife. The signage will be the key to educating people how beneficial these spaces are to families of all shapes and sizes.\n\n\xa0Read the unedited computer generated transcript here:\n\n\n\nMy Garden Journal\n\n\n
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