Conservation: why farmers need to do more
The NFU might say "farmers are the original environmentalists" but are those just words?
Patrick Galbraith
My first book, In Search of One Last Song, was called the most important book on the countryside in years. The Telegraph calls my new book, Uncommon Ground, 'brilliant'.
Lyme disease: the horror
Antibiotics are meant to cure Lyme disease but what happens when they don't?
A fine bit of casting
A new documentary on land access has brought an old face back to our TV screens and the countryside isn't happy
To save the countryside we need to get political
It seems that when it comes to policy, activists are in the corridors of power while the countryside organisations aren't
The last trouting men in Beadnell Bay
You never really know when you are witnessing the end of part of rural life but we often are
The search for a new car
Why do 4x4 all look the same these days and why have they all become "soft-roaders"?
Bang to rights
Just how defensible is driven red leg partridge shooting?
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Hobbies: Why the extra things are everything
Is it possible to do everything in life – work, family, deer, or breeding rare livestock? Some people certainly seem to be able to
Why most rural stories never make it into the mainstream media
How the countryside can get better at making its case
Deer by post - the tremendous joy of shifting venison
A venison pie has made me question everything I thought I believed about pies, and my relationship with deer themselves
Why Is Modern Nature Writing So Dreadfully Dull?
What does the modern nature writing scene tell us about how the literati view the countryside?
Broken men, milkshakes, and the night that sycamore fell
The vandalism at Sycamore Gap was carried out by broken men in a broken countryside and much of what followed was complete madness