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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...

In your neighbourhood? we cut a buffer of between 50 and 100 metres around our perimeter so that we're not allowing the sort of seed rain, the weed species, so—called, to go into farmland. that's not really a problem. what we're actually providing here is pollinating insects and natural pest controls. we're also restoring, replenishing the water table. we're also cleaning the water. we're preventing flooding. so we're preventing destruction of arable land from flooding. we're doing all these other public goods, these ecosystem services that are really important to protect ourfarmland. well, ...

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We diversified, we tried different crops, we tried different cows. we sold ice cream. we did everything we could. but always it was this clay that was against us. so let's just stop for a second and look around, because what we are surrounded by now is a form of wildness. yes. it's extraordinary, isn't it? i mean, in about 2004, 2005, this would have been a field of wheat. so what we did, piecemeal, over about six years, was leave the fields after their last harvest — just left them open as stubble — and allowed the seed rain to come in, allowed the hawthorn, blackthorn, dog rose, brambles...