Join Our Personal Extinction Rebellion

Thanks so much for all the fantastic feedback we have had on our last post about our big plans. In the meantime, it seems that the climate emergency is accelerating and we are all watching with increasing concern as the Arctic, Amazon, Alaska and Siberia are burning out of control, adding even more pressure to our planet, on top of species decline and temperature increases globally. Not only is nature responding to changing climate conditions but powerful, commercial interests are driving the devastation which will have international, long term implications for us all. We are only 2 people with a croft and a plan to reinstate and nurture an active biodiverse environment within it, but we are committed to doing everything we can to do to help, everyday. After 2 years of planning, we are finally at the point of launching our own Extinction Rebellion! Our first step has been to buy the croft tenancy, which I will run as a long term, carbon neutral "small batch" farming business, with a heavy dose of conservation and biodiversity fightback. Over the next few years Nat will match our farming activity with tree planting, peat preservation and these biodiversity plans which will strengthen the produce output and the wildlife in our area. In order to fund our biodiversity plans, we will be using a mixture of social enterprise and other funding models; from selling our sustainably made produce, using government grant funding, crowdfunding and aiming to bring in an income from a GreenExchange Platform.

"The land knows you, even when you are lost." — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass We have already begun work on our croft on our biodiversity fightback, but your contributions will accelerate our plans and allow us to succeed more quickly. In addition to planting trees, sustaining bumblebees, restoring the peat and hedges on our own croft, we will also match trees planted here with equal numbers of trees planted in Brazil, through Plant for the Planet. We have deliberated at length about the rewards that we should offer and the usual t-shirts, totes, badges, etc all come with such huge carbon footprints that it became clear that we would be adding more carbon than we would take out if we weren't careful. So the rewards are intangible, and are reshaping how we view investments. You are purchasing a share in an actual landbank of sorts — the carbon locked away in the peat on our land is in the thousands of cubic metres and in the hundreds of tonnes of Carbon sequestered. Most of all we will be creating habitat bridges, rather than the almost green desert-like space we have predominantly now. This means we will link the shore, through wetlands to hedges, to grassland, heather moor, to trees. The dividends will be better than any from a typical financial transaction and can be enjoyed for generations to come. So join us to plant trees we will never grow old in the shade of and fight our extinction with every fibre of your being.