Amid "rewilding" trend, a 2,800-acre English farm will turn to grassland

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Amid "rewilding" trend, a 2,800-acre English farm will turn to grassland

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The rolling hills south of Salisbury Plain are a bleak scene of vast arable fields and tightly grazed pasture dotted with scores of sheep. In recent decades, Lower Pertwood farm has embraced organic growing, producing oats, barley and other crops, while boosting numbers of rare corn buntings and other wildlife with wildflower ban…