Dropping the Fences (episode 5) - BREATH

It's six months since the N'Rougas team launched their regenerative approach to farming through Holistic Management with 24/7 shepherding. Finally, everyone is getting the hang of things.
** Visit the Savory Institute's website to learn more about how we're regenerating grasslands around the world: savory.global **
ABOUT THE SERIES:
In this five-part documentary series, Emmy-nominated and Television Academy Award winning filmmaker, Clifford Bestall follows the story of the two families as they face an uncertain future after seven years of drought and how they chart a new course with Holistic Management and herding, against many odds.
ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS:
Clifford Bestall is a South African documentary filmmaker who, over the past 40 years, has made award-winning, exposé, historical, and investigative films. Among them: Killers Don't Cry (2001), the first film to win two Grierson Awards (British Guild of Producers); Apartheid's People (co-director), that won a Peabody Award; and The Long Walk of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, a documentary series that was nominated for an Emmy. He later collaborated with Oscar winner Morgan Freeman on the acclaimed The 16th Man (2010), his fifth documentary on Nelson Mandela, that received an Academy Award. In 1985 he was named Television Cameraman of the Year by the Royal Photographic Society. Over the course of his career he has directed films for the BBC, PBS, ESPN and Al Jazeera English. His wife Michele, a medical doctor, worked with him as the scientific director on Lifelines, an eight part series for Aljazeera on the Quest for Global Health.
ABOUT THE FARM:
N’Rougas Farm is a 8,800-hectare sheep farm in the heart of South Africa’s arid Bushmanland region south of the Orange River. Once a diverse savanna, supporting great migrations of springbok and abundant wildlife, the land became degraded and desertified with the onset of sheep farming. On this farm, a profound change is now underway, with a project of renewal and hope to rejuvenate the veld and restore bio-diversity. But, being pioneers in the region, things sometimes go wrong and Veronica and her team don't always have the answers. There are false starts and missteps as the team sets out with one thing in mind, having to adjust when it becomes another. The inevitable and rich process of learning.
Visit the farm’s website: www.nrougas.co...

[@kcahill2777]

This is a fantastic story with great intelligent open minded people . There’s hope for the planet

[@mikesouter]

Everyone share and share these videos again and again - especially to the farming communities. We need to get the farmers to collectively restore the grasslands for South Africa and Namibia. The Karoo was once Southern Africa's Serengeti plains. There were millions of Springbok that were originally called, if I'm not mistaken, Trekbokke and because of their numbers, their migration across the veldt took 2 weeks to pass by. It would be good for people to see that again. Let's support holistic management and re-wild the earth.

[@tarquinbristow]

It's very refreshing to see a production like this following a real-life story, unscripted, not bling'd up. An old American expression about prairie grass encapsulates the sequence so well, saying "first it sleeps, then it creeps, then it leaps!"
I would expect to see the dramatic results in the third year and onward.

[@la912]

8:49 That fox is so cute

[@veronicabalfourpaul2288]

Beautiful

[@annburge291]

Really inspiring.

[@cynthialouw2970]

It's wonderful to see the land healing. But also the happy smiling faces and teamwork. Enjoying this series!!

[@downbntout]

Oh I don't want it to end, please make updates?

[@michelebestall9937]

We arrived back at the farm with our camera yesterday, waiting for the next chapter to unfold .......

[@tommybreen9677]

Can’t wait for to be continued

[@oceanwonders]

That was it! It says that it's a 5-part documentary. Updates would be nice, though.

[@la912]

​@@oceanwonders For now, but it will probably continue

[@michelebestall9937]

So glad you enjoyed watching the series. There will be more episodes to come though they haven't been filmed yet!

[@michelebestall9937]

@@la912 It will! We will continue to follow and share the developments on N'Rougas Farm.

[@michelebestall9937]

​@@oceanwonders Hi there There will be updates as the story unfolds .......