Through user-friendly chapters and short case studies, this beautiful book aims to inspire farmers and landowners to look at their land through a “biodiversity lens” and consider the entire farm as an ecosystem. It looks at the context of agriculture in the Western Cape and explores the implications of farming in a global biodiversity hotspot.

With practical suggestions for creating and managing a biodiverse farmscape, it includes different “plant palettes” and proactive ways to increase natural diversity on a farm. These include maximising uncultivated areas such as old fields and along fence lines, streams and dam walls.

The positive effects of farming in harmony with biodiversity are felt on many levels – financially and on the health and well-being of the farm community and beyond. Nature is the best insurance policy a farm could ever invest in.