Wilding
Ranked #16 in Horticulture, Ranked #36 in Wildlife — see more rankings.
For many years Isabella Tree and Charlie Burrell struggled to make a go as farmers, doing everything they could to make the heavy clay soils of their farm at Knepp in West Sussex as productive as possible, while rarely succeeding in making a profit. By 2000, facing bankruptcy, the couple decided they would try something new. They would hand their 3,500 acres, farmed for centuries, even millennia, back to nature. They would let it go wild.
This was no simple matter. What form did the land have before it took on the form that human beings have given it? The answer to that question... more
This was no simple matter. What form did the land have before it took on the form that human beings have given it? The answer to that question... more
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Mark Boyle Wilding is about an extraordinary experiment at the 3,500-acre Knepp Wildland Project, and an example of what can happen when we learn to do the hardest thing of all: nothing. (Source)
Ben Goldsmith @ErikSolheim Allowing nature to recover by itself is even cheaper, a la Wilding, by @isabella_tree (a book you must order and read). (Source)
Rankings by Category
Wilding is ranked in the following categories:
- #45 in Ecology
- #63 in Environment
- #60 in Environmentalism
- #59 in Farming
- #38 in Nature
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