Extraordinary biodiversity results from “rewilding” an economically-marginal English farm.
Only recently understood: the key role of large herbivores in creating savannah (rather than continuous forest).

@stewartbrand,@PatchouliW
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5640191/How-letting-Mother-Nature-reclaim-prime-farmland-produced-breathtaking-results.html …
Reachable as a day trip from London :) Not sure how interesting it would be for a casual visit, though. Point about cows eating leaves as well as grass was interesting. Maybe that’s what makes Slanker’s better than other grass-fed beef? Savannah rather than plain pasture.
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Guernsey cows (in Guernsey) produce far higher beta-carotene and omega oils than plain grass-fed (and butter is naturally a pleasing yellow). Another example of the true complexity of food. Eggs isn't eggs isn't eggs (and microbiome and physiological response isn't...)
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Oh yeah sorry it's because of the herbs that they eat. That was the relevance!
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Tempted to get the associated book. I wonder what the minimum surface area of land would be for the rewilding process they describe to work. Also, it’d be interesting to compare the same project on different continents and latitudes.
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