A photograph of a grinning boy riding a toy tractor is in a place of pride in the kitchen of Aarnout and Magda de Feijter, the owners of a 148-acre farm in the Dutch province of Zeeland. The picture is of their first grandson, Louis, and the de Feijters have always dreamed that he will one day take over the expanses of wind-rippled flax fields that have been in their family since 1835. But there are other plans. In the name of European Union environmental directives, their farm is earmarked for flooding the first time in Holland's centuries-long battle against water that a substantial piece of land is to be deliberately returned to the sea. Some 230 years after its flat pastures were wrested from the waters, the de Feijters' farm their home for 33 years is to be reflooded to reverse the disappearance of Zeeland's mudflats and salt marshes. ...
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