#firestick farming

We’re helping to restore Australia's ancient landscape.

Before colonization, much of Australia was not “wild” in the way Europeans imagined it. With knowledge going back tens of thousands of years, First Nations people purposefully cultivated the land and lived in balance with nature.

Colonization shattered that balance. British colonists cleared the land and displaced the First Nations people as quickly and brutally as possible.

In Mission 40, we teamed up with the Forktree Project to transform the landscape back into the paradise it once was.

By combining Indigenous wisdom and contemporary climate science, we’re helping restore the landscape so it can function and thrive again the way it did for thousands of years.

Make sure to follow the Forktree Project:

IG:   / forktreeproject  

Website: https://www.theforktre...

We extend our gratitude to Mark Koolmatrie, the participating Ngarrindjeri Yarluwar-Ruwe Rangers, and the wider Ngarrindjeri community for generously sharing their traditional ecological knowledge and Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property for Mission 40. We respectfully acknowledge the First Nations peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the lands and waters across the Fleurieu Peninsula where this project was filmed, and we pay our respects to their Elders past, present, and emerging.

#naturerestoration #treeplanting #ancientecosystem

Chapters

0:00 Restoring a lost ecosystem

1:12 How Australia’s land was once managed

2:52 Firestick Farming

4:09 The benefits of Firestick Farming

5:43 The brutal clearing of the land

7:16 Meet our partner

8:35 How they’re bringing back this ecosystem

9:20 Our support