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
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'.
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
Gone tomorrow: Are hares on their last legs?
Campaigners have called for Sir Keir Starmer to ban hare shooting in February but things are not quite what they seem
I was radicalised by Shooting Times
Editing the world's oldest shooting magazine gave me a real sense that privileged urban activists fail to see rural workers – it's time they took their blinkers off
Listening to the land
Both parties would probably deny it but hippies and hunters have more in common than they might think.
Uncommon Ground: a raking survey of rural Britain
An extract from my new book Uncommon Ground: Rethinking our relationship with the countryside, which explores land access and the impact of humans on the countryside
Ducks, newts, and does everybody hate us?
I headed to Norfolk for a pond restoration course and left feeling pretty positive about the countryside
Pubs and wildfowling clubs: The countryside needs people
Patrick Galbraith thinks about renting a cottage but finds that it comes with an unusual condition
Education – it's how we save the countryside
Sure the public don't understand farming, shooting, and land management, but what have you done to try to improve that?
An Invaluable Inheritance - The Importance of Saying 'Yes'
While out shooting I often find myself thinking about an uncle of mine who spent much of his short life confined to his flat
The kids are going mad for game
I spent a day in a butcher's shop in West London and realised that people are excited about wild meat – British culinary culture is changing and it could be our moment