Hit the Dirt; Making a Regenerative Landscape

Hi I'm Dave Weigel. They hope that the dirt Previously we've been talking about who've been playing it for a living and design and I have to question is the them we're creating the food and the help and that brings up the question of why the regenerative to them begin with that. And that leads to the question of the whole approach that we're taking to our gardening efforts to begin with. What is it we're trying to do. We're creating a garden and the effort to me and through history have been more to try to conquer nature and instead of trying to work with it in the idea of designing a regenerative to them of gardening is the more enhanced and work with nature and try to let the planet heal that help the farmer that there are a lot of things we can do to try to. Created the gardening that that we will make our world better over time. OK one of the important things we can do with work with native land that

encouraged by a lot of the native plant in our garden is the best way to further the varied number of plants that grow in the world to continue to grow them in their native habitat. Now the risk we take when they grow native plants in our own garden. We no want to encourage people to go out into the wild and harvest plan that the last thing we want to do. You don't want to go out and there are what's naturally occurring and doing well and beautiful already because we rip depleting the natural world. But there are many native plants that are available from garden centers. That have been propagated through the trade in and will do well in our own garden and when we use native plants we can create wild garden. We can create a garden where we let the will of nature take over and do pretty much as it wants. We can other plant with the Native the well plants that have natural live a lot of plant over time of A from our

garden. They will leave or go the road as we all know the plant that we along that provide beautiful collar and the farmer that we really love and many of those plants didn't grow here on their own but can save it from our gardens and do so well with little or no care for it make to incorporate those kind of plants into our plane. And when we start to look at our garden that way and think that what we are doing is not so much trying to harness the power of nature but who give it things to work with to make it more beautiful and enhance our lifestyle and our area where we live. Then we have a lot of resources that are the global and then we can also begin to incorporate other ornamental plants. I mean I'm not ruling out having beautiful perennial garden that's very important to all of us to have some plants that are directly for beauty that we like and not just because they grow here now hopefully

that the trick is if we can integrate the plant that we like so well in with the plants that are around everywhere and paper our garden into wild gardens on the fringes of our wood that progress and who are perennial bad the call plant the paper down and the more formal garden the round areas that are close to our how then we can really create gardening magic that we will here for year to come. And think about these ornamental plants that we want to you we have to exclude some land we don't want to plant that are heavy oil over time that what we're trying to do it create a generative to them we don't want to land that are going to be constantly demanding that we work act for compost into the oil every year that we can go in and we want to avoid plants that are pests from plants that make you're giving up the methods that don't work

well that don't want to grow here don't grow at all it makes to continue to fight and try to grow things that we aren't going to do well with here in England and one point that one to remember from our discussion today who is that in using native plant we can also reclaim many plots of land that have been boiled over time that man has tried to rest his will over nature with the dig at the dirt.