Text taken from Farmerama.co website

This month, we head back to Groundswell Festival to hear a conversation Abby convened back in June about Landscape Scale Regeneration. The four-way conversation focused on three initiatives which demonstrate just how much can be achieved when farmers are able to collaborate.

The first speaker is Donal Sheehan, a dairy farmer in the Bride valley area of County Cork who initiated the BRIDE Project (Biodiversity Regeneration In a Dairying Environment), an innovative agri-environment project that works with a network of local farmers to map out different aspects of environmental and sustainable food production practices. Next, we hear from Sarah Prosser, a ‘weaver’ of social-ecological change in Ireland. Sarah works for the European network of Bioregional Weaving Labs looking at large-scale landscape restoration, protection and regeneration in Ireland.

Finally, Pieter Ploeg talks to us about his work as the Design Strategist and Facilitator at Commonland Foundation. You might remember Commonland from an initiative in Southern Spain we featured on Episode 68 of Farmerama. Peter explains his role coordinating the Bioregional Weaving Lab program in Europe and his work to cultivate an enabling environment for the transition towards thriving ecosystems and communities in Ireland and beyond.