Country diary: A pocket rocket of rewilding – and a success in the face of opposition | Amy-Jane Beer

Asturias, Spain : I visit a farm that is thrilling in its ecological abundance, created in just eight years On a rocky 13-hectare pocket in the foothills of the Picos de Europa, Luke Massey and Katie Stacey are raising children, dogs, cattle, chicken, ducks, geese and eyebrows. In their eight years here, the farm they call Wild Finca has become a mass of scrub, with scattered large trees and dozens of clearings that Luke calls fields, but which look more like tiny irregular glades, riddled with trails and hemmed all around by the blackthorn, gorse and bramble that has sprung up around the tumb

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