Know your countryside: Dickens country
Nick Channer visits Kent for the author’s bicentenary.
The dawn of a Celtic spring
Olwen Davis celebrates Imbolc
My heart is in the highlands
Kenneth Steven recalls his mother’s childhood in Glenurquhart
County confusion
It’s time to return to ancient boundaries, argues Robert Hawley
Rearing shearling on the North York Moors
Andrea Mynard enjoys a tasty moorland treat
Barmy about bees
Phil Penfold meets ‘bee man’ Malcolm Walker of Doncaster
Bee friendly
Close encounters of the yellow-and-black-striped kind for James Oliver
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The meanest sort of labour
Diana Mackarill remembers the the world of the stone-breaker and stone-picker
Photographing the rural idyll of the Norfolk Broads
Landscape photography with J C Papworth
Meet the beetles
Cath Harris chats in Oxford to a charismatic world expert on the lifecycle of dung beetles
The adaptable ash
Robin Gates makes a handle for his old adze
Box hill through the seasons
Lena Walton explores Surrey
The healing power of working on the land
Andrea Mynard learns about theraputic farming
Something for the weekend?
Terry Wilson remembers childhood visits to the barber in the Yorkshire Dales of the 1950s
Revealing the cuckoo’s secret
Jack Watkins learns about a scheme to monitor the lifecycle of this mysterious avian interloper |