The idea of Seven Generations - Saith Cenedlaethau is that as we look back into the past and forward into the future, in the here and now we are in touching distance of the people who came before us and will come after us.

Our relationship with land has to be one that recognises both the past, what was before, and what will be in the future, so that our decisions in the here and now have that sense of time. Seven Generations – Saith Cenedlaethau is taking that sense of time and making it a guiding principle in decisions on land.

Stewarding land means we can use the land, but we must always do so in a way that is caring and protective and nourishing. Much of our biodiversity has been lost, land use has been drastically changed through farming practices focused on production and monoculture, but the different and earlier farming practices show how relatively recently our relationship with land has changed.  Climate change is here, and posing risks that will only increase to our wildlife and our food growing. The recent past of agriculture is not sustainable, but if we look further back to older practices, there are ways in which we can plan for the future by making different decisions on land.

Seven Generations is about transforming the governance of land, and to ultimately undo the priviatisation of land, piece by piece, into collective ownership, using either a co-operative, community benefit society, or inalienable trust system. This is to establish a way in which land willbe stewarded, cared for, for generations to come.