The Collapse of UK Food Production: Are Farmers Standing Strong?

Why we aren't filling the streets of London with tractors, rotten fruit and slurry.

Southern Water's Dirty Secret Exposed: Riverkeepers Take a Stand

A time for local heroes as Southern Water meet their match - the story of how 30 humble river keepers stopped a multi-million pound water company from pumping effluent into the River Test.

The Truth About Hare Coursing: It's Not What You Think

We look at historical and modern outlooks on hare coursing, and the need to stockpile Subaru Foresters.

The Perfect Shoot Guest: How to Get More Return Invitations

As the shooting season draws to a close, many of us will be rueing too few days spent in the field. Here's my advice on how to keep those kind shooting invitations dropping through the letterbox

Episode 23 : Charlotte & Hannah - Laughter to Logistics

In our first episode of 2024, we celebrate one year of the Women In Wellies Podcast, including the highs and lows of sharing inspirational stories of women from across rural Scotland.

Finding Purpose in Winter: How Picking Up on Shoots Banished my Blues

The mental health journey of a picker-upper…

The Truth About Extreme Pheasant Shooting: Ballistics and Ethical Considerations

Some remarks on the misguided idea that shooting birds at extreme heights is a good idea. A few technical remarks to debunk some myths are added and an appeal to take the ethical aspects of shooting live animals seriously.

The State of Nature: Are we really that bad?

Failing 'State of Nature', bottom of the biodiversity league, most biodiversity depleted, failing 30x30. Open any paper and someone from the conservation industry is saying how bad we are. What on earth does it all mean?

Savour the Shot: Woodcock Hunting, Cooking, and Conservation

In this episode Patrick Galbraith goes out in search of the mysterious woodcock, a beloved bird of hunters, chefs and nature lovers the world over.

Cold, spotted and beautiful

If fly fishing is art, then surely no medium has more delicate brush strokes, more subtle nuance and greater mastery of light than trout fishing, and it is surely the trout that takes pride of place above the mantelpiece in the great fishing gallery.

Caring for Gundogs: Time to Change the Narrative?

Can we do more for our gundogs?

Stressed Farmers vs Overheated Civil Servants: Who Has It Worse?

News that the Forestry Commission are hiring a 'Wellbeing Adviser' makes me wonder whether DEFRA have their priorities straight