Additional support was provided by James J. Lead support for this podcast has been provided by Elizabeth “Lisette” Prince. They would restore Knepp's 3,500 acres to. By 2000, with the farm facing bankruptcy, they decided to try something radical. Lapham talks with Isabella Tree, author of Wilding: Returning Nature to Our Farm. For years Charlie Burrell and his wife, Isabella Tree, farmed Knepp Castle Estate and struggled to turn a profit. As Lapham notes in their conversation, Tree’s estate brings the nature of Shakespeare back to life. Now nightingales, bees, turtle doves, peregrine falcons, and purple emperor butterflies proliferate. Lapham about her book Wilding: Returning Nature to Our Farm and the Knepp Wildland Project that inspired it-Tree and her husband Charlie Burrell’s attempt to learn about and help the environment by simply letting their 3,500-acre estate be, slowly returning it to the wild. “We’re only really just beginning to look at the soil,” the writer Isabella Tree says on this week’s episode of The World in Time, “at the ground beneath our feet.” The award-winning author spoke with Lewis H. Subscribe to This Podcast iTunes Stitcher SoundCloud Google Play RSS
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