Leaving Everything Behind for a Life Rooted in the Land - Balance- A Prologue

After the chaos of the pandemic era, Denise Manbart left England with no destination — only questions. A journey to Portugal’s wild southwest led her to a permaculture course on a quiet farm in Alentejo. She meant to stay for weeks. She stayed for good.

There she met Lars Wild, a Swiss actor searching for a new stage — one rooted in living soil. Together, they embraced Syntropic agriculture, a method that restores the land by working with nature’s rhythms. On a neglected farm along the Rio Mira, they planted thousands of trees, restored the soil, and watched life return.

Wild Forest Garden is their gift back to the land — and this film is Denise’s prologue: a story of regeneration, belonging, and the fragile threads that tie us to the more-than-human world.
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