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Very exciting to be here. But im trying to understand what has happened to this land of yours, because when you arrived here, this was an intensively farmed land, wasnt it . It was. My husband, charlie, inherited it from his grandparents when he was in his early 20s, and this was back in the 1980s. And every inch of the land was ploughed, it was producing arable crops and dairy. And we fully expected to be farmers for the rest of our lives. Mm. 17 years on, we were £1. 5 million in debt, tearing our hair out and realised that, you know, this is very marginal land. Were walking on 320 metres o...

ah, well, it's actually still, for me, very exciting to be here. but i'm trying to understand what has happened to this land of yours, because when you arrived here, this was an intensively farmed land, wasn't it? it was. my husband, charlie, inherited it from his grandparents when he was in his early 20s, and this was back in the 1980s. and every inch of the land was ploughed, it was producing arable crops and dairy. and we fully expected to be farmers for the rest of our lives. mm. 17 years on, we were £1.5 million in debt, tearing our hair out, and realised that, you know, this i...

Relax by watching some bioturbation videos and make sure you don't leave your soil naked says author, Donna Mullen

The new documentary series A Real Bug's Life explores how some of Earth's smallest animals get by.

And rootle and disturb the soil creates niches for other life. the way their dung and their urine actually infiltrates the ground, thanks to dung beetles and all the other microbes that are helping — the microbiotic species that are helping to bring those nutrients back into the soil is restoring the soil, which also helps the soil store carbon. so they're part of the whole nutrient carbon cycle. you can't divorce large herbivores from the nutrient system. do you eat meat? i do, but i'm very careful about the meat that i eat. i eat much less meat than i ever used to. i think we've all got to...