Britain | Farming and the pandemic
Less barley, more deer: how covid-19 is changing rural Britain
The change from eating out to eating in has a big effect
CLIMB A HILL in Britain this summer, and the view will be subtly different. Some of the fields will be a duller shade of green than they were last year. Stand quietly, and you might spot more large mammals moving through the landscape. Other changes are invisible, being underground or underwater. A year after covid-19 struck Britain, it is affecting the countryside in all sorts of strange ways.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “A new landscape”
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