“it needed plenty of water to make it work ”

Marian Boswall defends the building of lakes, which bring both beauty and biodiversity

Brian Morton

From a milliner inspired by topiary to a model-turned-ecological gardener and a couple who swapped jobs in telecommunications for growing vegetables, Sir David Beckham’s rural heroes tell Julie Harding why craft and the countryside are key

Are you into ‘rewilding’? Can you define what that is? If you can’t, you’re not alone. The term has a variety of meanings, not all ecological. When rewilding was originally envisioned by a pioneering

I feel privileged to have visited this most magical of lakes

Anchored in a quiet loch on the west coast of Scotland, Katherine Knight discovered the seabed was barren mud. She raised a small community and set out to replant the underwater desert with life-giving seagrass