“No one would think of tearing down a quarter of England’s medieval churches. But that’s precisely what we have done with our hedgerows.”
The stitching that holds the fabric of the countryside together Read more
“A clod of earth seems at first sight to be the embodiment of the stillness of death…” So Sir
Healthy Soils, Healthy People Read more
This piece is 8 years old, but a couple of people asked me for a copy recently; so I dug
The secret life of cows (first appeared in The Ecologist magazine, March 2005) Read more
In his riposte to Clive Aslet’s Observer piece, ‘The English Countryside has never had it so good’, Tobias Jones unpicks much of
A Green and Fluorescent countryside…? Read more
Just a few days after Britain initiated divorce proceedings against Europe, I got married and my wife & I then
Romance and reminiscence in the Tuscan countryside Read more
The Countryside Restoration Trust (CRT) was founded in 1993 with the objective of creating a counterpoint and challenge to the
Better to eat horsemeat, than swallow ‘superbugs’? Read more
