Located in Wales's Brecon Beacons, the Penpont Project is the UK's largest intergenerational nature restoration project. It is co-led by a partnership of twenty 15-20 year olds, youth environmental charity Action for Conservation (AFC), the Hogg family (custodians of Penpont since 1666) and the Davies family who have farmed the Estate for three generations, as well as the foresters, artists and ecologists who call Penpont home. Over the past four years, this partnership has employed a range of cutting edge eco-cultural mapping tools to delve into Penpont’s past diversity, come to new understandings of the drivers of ecological change in the present and co-design a vision for the future of the Penpont Estate based on a consensus reached across the generations. In pursuit of this vision, the partnership has planted more than 3,000 trees, restored hedgerows, started rewilding experiments that will allow nature to turn fields back into meadows, sited new ponds, begun a major shift to regenerative agricultural practices and welcomed hundreds of young people and community members to the land as part of a new education programme. This is just the beginning.
