Karoo farmer Sholto Kroon is a committed practitioner of holistic resource management and his farm has been managed holistically since 1975. "By farming with nature, instead of against nature, we can return to a state of natural balance," he says. "In this balance, each animal relies on all the others to survive, and the state of the veld is carefully balanced by the state of the plants it supports." In other words, holistic management gets all the cycles of nature working again, a process which allows the land to regenerate. Sholto’s farm, Klipdrift, which lies 35 kilometres outside Graaff-Reinet, produces beef, mutton, wool and mohair.

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