British author once faced a struggling 3,500-acre farm in Sussex before abandoning conventional farming; turned an estate into a wilding experiment | World News
On a 3,500-acre estate in Sussex, the decision to stop farming conventionally did not mean simply leaving the land untouched. Isabella Tree and her husband, Charlie Burrell, began changing the way the Knepp Estate was managed, allowing large grazing animals to move across areas of the farm while reducing the interventions that had shaped the…