The Return of Nature to a British Farm
by Isabella Tree
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Forced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land at Knepp in West Sussex was economically unsustainable, Isabella Tree and her husband Charlie Burrell made a spectacular leap of faith: they decided to step back and let nature take over. Thanks to the introduction of freeroaming cattle, ponies, pigs and deer ? proxies of the ...
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