Totnes
Meeting some of the four legged inhabitants of the Sharpham Trust rewilding project. The woolly grazers include a pair of Mangalitsa pigs and Belted Galloway cows which are free to graze a 50-acre section of the Sharpham Estate beside the River Dart. The animals will help nature return to the land—which used to be conventionally farmed and fertilised—enabling wild plants to establish and support more insects, birds and small mammals. The pigs are 'disruptors', mimicking the effects of wild boar (the wool-covered Mangalitsas are a close piggy relative). Boar used to roam the land, rooting under the turf to find dandelion roots and other tasty morsels to eat.
