Kim Wilkie Interviewed by Graham Harvey

Landscape architect Kim Wilkie reflects on our place in the environment, how past masters have fashioned it and on what the future could hold. He will also talk about the developer Aldred Drummond’s plan for a £1 billion smart city on the site of a former power station between the New Forest and the Solent.

Wilkie is renowned for his understanding of the way people have moulded their environment over the centuries and brings a reverence of the land and the species that inhabit it to his own work.  His classic book, Led by the Land, has been updated with fresh thoughts on farming and settlement and with new projects, from designs for new cities in Oman and England to Swansea’s Maggie’s Centre and plans for London’s Natural History Museum grounds.

Wilkie ran his own landscape practice for 25 years and now acts as a consultant and runs his farm in Hampshire. Current projects include a focus on regenerative farming combined with human settlement. He has been an advisor to governments and to public bodies including English Heritage and the National Trust. He is part of the project team working on a self-sustaining new settlement on the site of a former power station on the edge of the New Forest. He has drawn up a plan to stitch together the traditional New Forest landscape with the development and the coast.

Here he talks to food and farming journalist and scriptwriter for The Archers Graham Harvey.

This event is part of a series under the banner Pasture to Plate® that look at the environmental and health benefits of raising food on pasture and getting it to the consumer quickly through a short supply chain.