Nadia Shaikh seeks good company for a search-and-gorge to get her through the ruthless darkness of the winter months

Winter may well be the most overlooked season of them all when it comes to appreciating nature’s joys. While it’s easy to take pleasure in the budding blooms of spring, summer’s resplendent blossoms a

Wildlife gardening is hugely beneficial, both for biodiversity and for gardeners. By providing food, shelter and nest sites for a wide range of species, you get the opportunity to engage with the natu

Whether winter-faded ferns, the spindly harvestman or the tyrannical stare of an irate chicken, through-lines from the prehistoric to our modern age are all around us in November, says John Lewis-Stempel

the winter solstice has a magic for me that other pagan festivals don’t quite hit. It’s the one I actively celebrate rather than simply nod to, as I do the equinoxes, the summer solstice and the sprin

AND now the leaves suddenly lose strength… New ...