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Isabella Tree talks about her latest book Wilding, a new kind of creation story. From the Knepp estate in Britain’s West Sussex, Ms. Tree tells how she and her husband Charlie Burrell, defeated by its deep clay soil to intensively farm their 3,500 acres of ancient, inherited land, literally turned it over with the help of large-hoofed animals, allowing the land to wild itself and establish a functioning ecosystem where life in all its diversity has returned, and the sound of turtle doves, storms of butterflies and creatures great and small appear wherever on their land you go. This wilding project joins many others around the world, bringing with it a rare energy and hope that may not, as we feared, have disappeared after all. (Broadcast on WPKN radio, Oct. 14, 2020 produced by Tony Ernst.)
