A couple gave up on a failing 3,500-acre Sussex farm. Nearly 25 years later, it became Britain’s most famous rewilding success | World News
In the early 2000s, Charlie Burrell and his wife Isabella Tree faced a difficult choice. After seventeen years of trying to farm 3,500 acres of heavy clay soil at Knepp Castle Estate in West Sussex, they were roughly 1.5 million pounds in debt, with intensive farming simply failing to turn a profit on land that…