Joel Catchlove and Sophie Green were focused on regeneration when they bought 19ha of hilltop grazing land on South Australia's Fleurieu Peninsula in 2012.
They had a mammoth task of applying permaculture principles to manage a plot of rural land that had been cultivated for cattle, sheep and hay for 170 years. It involved a stream of constant questions about what was happening with the soil, fungi, plants, weather and animals.Another is the idea of "zoning" the property by fencing it into different areas depending on the amount of energy they would need, such as house versus habitat zones.
Almost 8,000 trees have been planted on the property with the help of friends, family and neighbours to draw back local fauna."When you see this landscape, it's been cleared for a long, long time and we really wanted to see, particularly, woodland birds come back.