Aland Episode 1 - Patricia and Romy

About this episode

The episode features a discussion with Patricia, Romy, and Jenni about efforts to restore traditional wood pastures in Aland through regenerative practices.

In summer 2025 Tree Amble was invited to the Finnish Island of Aland to meet with a group of people trying to safeguard and restore the traditional wood pastures on the island through regenerative practices. The project, run by Patricia Wiklund and her colleagues, is aimed at bringing farmers together to learn and discuss regen techniques and to look at ways of re-evaluating their traditional pastures in a modern way. They still have extremely biodiverse pastures scattered around more intensive farms. Whilst in Aland we met with farmers, project managers, the water company, foresters, chefs and Jenni who is promoting food tourism. We came away with 4 Tree Amble podcasts - this first one is with Patricia, Romy and Jenni.

People in this episode

Host: Peter Leeson

Guests: Patricia Wiklund, Romy, Jenni

Topics covered

• regenerative practices
• biodiversity
• food tourism
• traditional farming
• community engagement

Keywords

• Aland
• regenerative agriculture
• traditional pastures
• biodiversity
• food tourism
• community farming

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Tree Amble, water company, foresters, chefs

Places: Aland

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