● A couple of miles inland from the ...

Plundering a local byway for a spot of festive foraging, John Lewis-Stempel finds all life proliferating in the multitudinous micro-habitat of the winter hedgerow

In 1961, a four-hectare field on the southern edge of an ancient woodland called Monks Wood in Cambridgeshire produced its last crop of barley. Having originally been cleared of trees during the Roman

What the scientists are saying… Falling puffin numbers ...

Establishing crops and hedgerow management are key jobs this month for Joe Stanley

There is a van in John Little’s garden. That information may not seem so surprising perhaps, until you learn that the van in question isn’t simply parked. It is semi-submerged, with greenery growing o