I've just finished reading English Pastoral: An Inheritance, by James Rebanks. It's not about wilding, per se, but farming. Really interesting, I loved it.
As Dove has mentioned, High Ash Farm is just two miles south of Norwich. Half the farm has been set aside for wildlife. It has five miles of permitted footpaths across it. Full of wild flowers - campion, foxgloves, camomile
The Land Healer - a book on the power of regenerative farming, by Jake Fiennes. He worked at Knepp and was also a game keeper.
He has become conservation manager at the vast and beautiful Holkham
estate in north Norfolk, where his ideas about sustainable agriculture
and landscape management have been put into practice on a massive scale.
This is an interesting, positive and detailed interview with Jake (2021). He is a "mediator" between the RSPB and the NFU (representing both), was a game keeper, a farmer, a land manager and a nature conserver. He is at Holkam and was at Knepp.
“Nature recovery is not a fashion, it’s
essential,” said Baird, who grows peas for Birds Eye and wheat for Hovis
on 530 hectares. “If we don’t make space for nature, who is going to
pollinate the crops in the future? We can’t sustain our soils unless we
rewild them"... Baird
said more and more farmers were signing up, often for pragmatic reasons
as they seek more sustainable ways of producing food.
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https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/James-Rebanks/English-Pastoral--An-Inheritance---The-Sunday-Times-bests/25378177
“Nature recovery is not a fashion, it’s essential,” said Baird, who grows peas for Birds Eye and wheat for Hovis on 530 hectares. “If we don’t make space for nature, who is going to pollinate the crops in the future? We can’t sustain our soils unless we rewild them"... Baird said more and more farmers were signing up, often for pragmatic reasons as they seek more sustainable ways of producing food.