Gardener to Guardian, Rewilding the Nature Around You | WILD HOPE

Please PBS - More videos like this one! If each person can leave a small corner of their property alone, stop using chemicals on the lawns and let the so called 'weeds' grow, that's a start. Even a little bit can make a big difference and will also help the pollinators who are becoming extinct.

Most of what people think are weeds, are food or medicine. Nettles, dandelion tea, oat-straw... it goes on and on. This is a beautiful video! The boring water wasting green manicured lawns that surround me should be a thing of the past.

This! All of this! I had tossed some wildflower seeds around a couple of years ago and they grew like crazy. At first I wanted to control them. Then, last summer, I decided to let my yard go just to see what grew and what happened. Most of it, I didn't know what the plants were. Some that I used to pull out turned out to be beautiful! One morning, I walked out my front door, and there were all kinds of butterflies EVERYwhere. And bees! I started crying it was SO beautiful. My yard was a "mess" but it was amazing. Next year trying to minimally organize it a little better but I'm not going back.

The happiest memories of my childhood was exploring abandoned lots full of thicket and tall grasses and watching wildlife.

A terrific example of how small changes make big impacts. This is a great clip. Thanks PBS.

Man if this didn't warm your soul, from your head to your toes. Ty❤😊

i cried the whole video. its beautiful. i have a small ark i will make it much bigger and guilt my neighbors into it next spring. beautiful

Thank you for putting this beautifully produced piece together. Mary is such an inspiration to so many of us, all over this wonderful planet.

When I was very young....out at our camp,I thought I was the only person ever to be in love with trees...65 now and have alway lived the Ark life. And what Mary has done and is doing is THEE GREATEST movement to have our beautiful earth survive. I'm so touched by her brilliant vision and dedicated work to help others realize how to contribute...to what we all want. The most beautiful place in any of the thousands of galaxies is worth saving .

That’s the kind of work they should do! They have plenty to give back! My yard is poor, but I am going permaculture. Replaced water sucking trees with fruit n nut trees. A berm along the low end of my garden to catch and hold water. Let the rich show off their great works. You and I can do our own little corner.

I love this so much! I watch Colette O'Neal at Bealtaine Cottage, she practices "Goddess permaculture". I'm planting trees in a 1 acre former horse paddock. That requires an 8 foot high fence around the nursery, because the white-tail deer can jump 7 feet.

For what it's worth, and it would be cool if anyone who helped produced this knew about this, but it's inspired me to grow lavander on my tiny apartment balcony next year when the climate is better for it.

Thanks so much for sharing such a wonderful video 👍🤗

This past Saturday was the Global Big Day for the Cornell eBird site. Basically a day of civilian science where you birdwatch for however long you want and report your findings to give conservation scientists data. I'm lucky enough to have a friend whose family home is basically an ark because they have a lot of large, mature trees and aren't really big on yardwork for the most part. I saw so many birds at their birdfeeders! It was a pretty magical morning watching them dart and squabble. And of course the two different squirrels and a chipmunk that had snuck over to get seeds off the ground were cute too.

Rewilding my little yard too. We have so many more fireflies and songbirds now.

What a lovely inspiring story full of gentle kindness and patience. This movement needs to get on mainstream media, like prime time TV shows across Asia and the Americas.

Absolutely wonderful. Ive been watching a lot of these "types" of videos lately and this this one really touched me. Well done 👏

Fantastic! Its SO heartwarming and encouraging to see the future leaders of our planet involved. Hats off to you all. If ONLY I were 20 yrs younger. 😀

I love this so much! Our garden is very small. But I put in a small pond using a storage box. We already were getting frogs. I am putting in native plants as much as I can. We get hedgehogs which are fed and watered and even hibernate here under the shed. We’ve had foxes too! The birds are encouraged because they are fed and watered everyday. We need more good insects, moths and butterflies but, are hopeful by planting native plants. We have three fruit trees and two hazel trees that were left in flower pots by squirrels. I’m definitely going to make a sign saying This is an Ark as there are those who think I’m just creating a mess! Taking out the footprint of the house and the front garden which is sadly tarmaced although there are two slim flower beds our ark is about a third of what is ours. Better than nothing I hope.

Thank you for this movie! There is another Ark in Georgia (Country) about 25 kms outside of Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. You find us under the name of 'Mirabela' and 'Georgia' . Nature works together with us. I am truly amazed how nature responds and love more and more animals and plants settle in. I am greeting all of the Guardians of Mother Earth.