An aristocratic couple struggling to run a large farm may not elicit much sympathy. And the tale of how they turned around a loss-making business may seem a niche interest.
But Wilding, Isabella Tree’s story of how the Knepp estate in West Sussex was rewilded, has not only sold a quarter of a million copies worldwide and been translated into eight languages, it has inspired thousands of landowners, large and small, to rewild fields and gardens in an attempt to halt catastrophic biodiversity losses.
