Wilding
The Return of Nature to a British Farm
by Isabella Tree
Recommended by Stewart Brand and Ben Goldsmith
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Nature, Science, and Nonfiction.
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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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Nature, Science, and Nonfiction.
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Stewart Brand
Writer; founder of the Whole Earth Catalog
“@ErikSolheim Allowing nature to recover by itself is even cheaper, a la Wilding, by @isabella_tree (a book you must order and read). | The best book I have read in years on wildland restoration and the environment in general is WILDING by @isabella_tree. It is beautifully researched, written, and lived.”
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