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Going out for a good old fashioned drove
Driving cattle on foot across Scotland, echoing the practices of our forefathers and gaining intimate insight into the animals’ habits, Patrick Laurie discovers that sometimes it really is about the journey as much as the destination.
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Don’t old towns need saving?
Out with the old and in with the new isn't always a good thing, this week's Athena argues.
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Farmers of Britain, go forth and grow prawns
A new study has proposed that farmers could start growing king prawns to diversify income streams.
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I was Jeremy Hunt’s main political adviser and helped put together multiple Autumn Statements and Budgets. This is what I think Rachel Reeves’s Budget means for the countryside
Adam Smith, former chief of staff to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, reflects on what last week's Budget means for the countryside and how we ensure the rural voice is heard loudly inside Budget preparations.
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The Budget: What do we need to fix a broken countryside, and what will we get?
With the Autumn Budget looming, countryside and heritage organisations reveal what they are hoping to hear to fix the turmoil — and what they are dreading
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'I’m going to be the first in more than 100 years to sell anything off': How the upcoming budget uncertainty is impacting young farmers
Changes to inheritance tax, property relief and Defra budgets will likely change Britian's rural landscape. We ask the next generation of farmers what they think their future will look like.
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An unfenced existence: Philip Larkin's love of the countryside
Richard Barnett pokes at Larkin’s protective carapace of soot-stained gloom and finds a writer with an unillusioned yet tenderly perceptive sense of Nature, in all its beauty and indifference
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The Labour government of the 1970s saved our country houses. Will a Labour government of the 2020s save our country churches?
Why not invest to save the most valuable community resources we have, perfectly placed at the heart of communities?
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James Robinson: A fifth-generation farmer on the ups and downs of 'the most glorious job in the world'
Life can be beautiful for farmers, and often is — but it can also be hard and bleak. James Robinson joined the Country Life Podcast to talk about the extraordinary ups and downs of the job he loves, and how Nature helps out when things get tough.
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Five years of drought means there's only one conclusion for Britain's farmers: 'Climate change is real and affecting us now'
The cumulative effects of the past five years of hot weather are causing chaos for farmers — and there's no signs that it will improve. Jane Wheatley reports.
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Combine harvesters and pigs in the city: Country Life's Quiz of the Day, August 18, 2025
It's a farming special for Monday's Quiz of the Day.
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The English county where you can gorge yourself on Cheddar: Country Life's Quiz of the Day, August 15, 2025
Cheese, legendary kings and giant naked men on hillsides light up Friday's Quiz of the Day.
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A romantic view of the countryside, hungry fish, and the world's most popular language: Country Life's Quiz of the Day, August 8, 2025
Test your general knowledge in Friday's Quiz of the Day.
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William Kendall: 'We need to build a lot more solar farms and some wind turbines, too'
The thought of losing of productive arable land to renewable-energy developments can be dispiriting and alarming, but informed local knowledge may be the key to their successful design.
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Country Life 16 July 2025
Country Life 16 July 2025 is our sustainability special, looking at the animals who are saving our landscape, solar power, and the best of the Proms.
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Corinne Fowler: Exploring the hidden history of the British countryside, one walk at a time
Professor Corinne Fowler joins the Country Life Podcast.
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The profitability of agriculture underpins everything in the countryside. Confidence is at rock bottom
Weather, taxes and no subsidy. It's not a great time to be producing food in Britain. Agromenes sounds the alarm.
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Country Life 23 April 2025
Country Life 23 April 2025 looks at how to make the most of The Season in Britain: where to go, what to eat, who to look out for and much more.
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Minette Batters: 'It would be wrong to turn my back on the farming sector in its hour of need'
Minette Batters explains why she's taken a job at Defra, and bemoans the closure of the Sustainable Farming Incentive.
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Country Life 9 April 2025
Country Life 9 April 2025 is our interiors special, also looking at island homes, great art, and the joy of Spam.
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Country Life 2 April 2025
Country Life 2 April 2025 celebrates smaller country houses, visits Portmeirion and is wowed by the magnolias of Maurice Foster.
