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A 100 acre site of former farmland has been replanted with wild flowers that have attracted thousands of insects. Having been a farmer for 65 years, Alan Ellis decided to diversify in retirement and now the acres he owns near Ivybridge, Devon are full of cornflowers, poppies and daisies."I very often wonder what other farmers must think of me - they must think I've gone mad, which I probably have," says Alan. "I feel it's probably something most farmers would think is a strange thing to be doing. I didn't expect it to be so exciting."