In this part of Wessex, today is known as apple pie day so every year in our house, we make an apple pie from our homegrown apples. Over...

Ripe damsons waiting to be foraged There’s something very soul-satisfying about ambling along ancient tracks, and even more so when...

Did you know there's a common plant growing in the UK which can be foraged and harvested for free, and that has superfood status? Those...

We had a trip to Salisbury today. For anyone reading this from afar, Salisbury (pronounced Solls-bury ) is a small city here in southern...

There are several Saxon yews dotted around the ancient woodland, and along the trackways and holloways of my local area. There's one very...

If there’s one certainty to everything in life it’s that time keeps ticking on. Amid the mad rush (or quiet stillness) of the everyday,...

An amble deep into the forest is always full of unexpected finds. Unless you leave the well-trodden path there's so much of the woodland...

Do you ever look at the land around you and imagine how it used to look thousands of years ago? Filter out all the modern clutterings and...

Looking to skip straight to the recipe for crabapple jelly? Click here :-) It's crabapple season here in the UK! We're lucky enough to...

Recounting discovering a Bronze Age arrowhead and two other ancient finds. Imagining the incredible stories these pieces could tell.

A look at the southern Britain and West Country local dialect word "gert".

Chicken of the woods fungus on tree stump in early May Yesterday, we visited a favourite lane. It's the one which has the old ivy-covered...

Years ago now, I was walking on the South Downs on a new-to-me footpath. It was pretty and I'd been strolling for a while, lost in...

Birdsong and cow parsley, filmed today along an old holloway in southern Britain. What could be more perfect? And, just for good measure,...

I've been thinking about something recently and it begins with a few recurring themes I keep coming across in plant lore. It's about the...

With Spring comes the flowering of the male yew trees with small orange-toned flowers that are really never noticed unless you get closer...

Spring is in full force in the green lanes here in southern Britain and the weather is really warming up. It's such a change in just a...

Garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata) is an easy to spot plant with vibrant heart shaped green leaves that are toothed around the edges,...