Actor Rachel Ward turns to regenerative farming to combat climate change

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After watching her farm narrowly survive the inferno of Black Summer and welcoming a grandson into the world, Rachel Ward knew it was time to try to do things differently.

Rachel Ward's climate concern spiked during the Black Summer of 2019, when bushfires roared towards her property in the Nambucca Valley.

"I just went, 'This is the most important issue of my lifetime,' and I really needed to be giving that a dominant focus."Her documentary Rachel's Farm follows her journey into regenerative agriculture on the beef cattle property she has owned for 35 years."But everybody has to change the paddock between their ears.

"Maintaining complete ground cover, having live roots in the soil all the time, promoting life instead of death, which is what conventional agriculture has become about, to some degree," he said."Because we're farmers ourselves, we know what it's like — we often feel quite alone," she said.

 

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