Two new guests on the Sharpham Estate are helping to rewild farmland with their rooting and snuffling. A pair of Mangalitsa pigs arrived ion April on the Estate near Totnes to begin turning over the land with their powerful snouts. The pigs are covered in a coat of curly hair – one pig is ginger and one is white – and they’ve been chosen because they are the closest breed to ancient wild boar which used to roam this land generations ago. The Mangalitsas’ boar-ish behaviour includes rooting up the grass and soil, supporting rewilding efforts by making the disturbed soil receptive to wild plant seeds.