28/03/2025
Yet another sign that the land is becoming a Nurturer again♥️
This is the only picture I clicked on my last visit to the farm. Most of my time there goes in hands-on work, feeding the soil, getting systems in place and so on. But when I spotted these eggs - I had to stop everything and just take in the sign!
We hear so much about what chemicals do to fertile land, how trees are being chopped across the globe.. but do we really know what happens there after?
Barren land is parched, dehydrated, with its vegetation gone and top soil eroded. There is no flora or fauna around, so no source of food and hence all the living species slowly exit the land in search of proverbial greener pastures.
But when the same land begins to rewild - ie when it gets the ability to hold water and soil, grow wild ones (because the seeds from the past are already there, lying dormant) that’s when the reptiles and birds start showing up.
At first they’ll scout around, see what’s available and whether it’s even viable. But when all the criteria are met, they do something that makes the land so happy - they build a nest!
When a Mama decides to lay eggs in a piece of land, ancestors have said that’s the biggest sign of the land beginning to heal itself! And just seeing those eggs - some were cracked open so some of the babies had clearly already hatched - just that was such a heartwarming sight and sign!
I am still cautiously optimistic, as healing a piece of land has at-least a 10-year horizon, and we are in year 3 now.. with climate change, human intervention, a lot can be harmed or healed..
But for now, this is a wonderful sign and I couldn’t be happier!
