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Lucy Baring on the joy of a lost passport: 'I'll stay at home, enjoy the sweet peas in full throttle, read a thriller, drink cold wine and watch films that nobody else likes'
Lucy Baring loses her passport and finds a very different kind of holiday.
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One of New York's greatest fields of dreams seeking a new owner, as Stonewall Farm hits the market
Calling all dreamers looking for a place to live out their vision just outside New York, because the largest privately-owned property in Westchester County has come to the market for the first time in over half a century. We take a look at a spectacular home in breathtakingly pretty countryside that is full of potential.
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In Focus: What happens behind the scenes at the Proms
Floods, nerves and piano tuning — Henrietta Bredin goes backstage at the world’s biggest music festival, an epic feat of logistical planning.
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Country Life 20 July 2022
Country Life 20 July 2022 looks at weasels and minks, cornflowers and castles, Romans and round tables, and much more.
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The Duchess of Cornwall's favourite view: Lochnagar from Bovaglie
For her guest edit special issue of Country Life, The Duchess of Cornwall chose her favourite view in the world, this classic vista across to Lochnagar. Photograph by Steven Rennie.
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The Duchess of Cornwall: ‘I have a profound sense of being at home in the countryside’
In her leader article in the 13th July 2022 issue of Country Life, guest editor HRH The Duchess of Cornwall talks about her love of being out in the country, her childhood in the South Downs, the darker side of Britain's rural idyll and the farmers, fishermen, butchers and artisans who are the backbone of the countryside.
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Camilla's Country Life: How to watch the behind-the-scenes television documentary about The Duchess of Cornwall's Country Life guest-edit
Find out where and how to watch the ITV documentary 'Camilla's Country Life', all about The Duchess of Cornwall's guest-edited issue of Country Life.
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Video: The Duchess of Cornwall's guest-edit of Country Life, as featured on the BBC
Watch Paula Lester on BBC Breakfast discussing The Duchess of Cornwall's guest-edit of Country Life magazine, out on 13th July 2022.
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The Duchess of Cornwall, as photographed by The Duchess of Cambridge for Country Life
The upcoming 13 July 2022 issue of Country Life is being guest-edited by HRH The Duchess of Cornwall — and the cover portrait was taken by her daughter-in-law, HRH The Duchess of Cambridge.
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A sprawling rural estate that is up for sale for the first time in more than 100 years — with over 1,700 acres on offer and a £50 million price tag
Penny Churchill takes a look at the prestigious Exning Estate near Newmarket, famed for its equine history and multiple farming, residential and renewable channels.
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A country estate complete with dairy farm, and room for 300 cows, 12,000 litres of milk... and 650,000 gallons of slurry
Located in the heart of the Eden Valley, Lowthian Gill Farm offers top-tier dairy farming with a truly beautiful farmhouse at its core.
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Trees can be a win-win for farming and the environment
Increasing biodiversity, boosting carbon capture, preventing soil erosion, reducing flood risk… these are just some of the many benefits of planting trees, and The Woodland Trust's MOREwoods scheme can help.
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'The most spectacular wildlife experience in the British countryside', and where to go to see it
The jostling for position, the amazing social dynamics and the extraordinary noise of the lek — the mating ritual of the black grouse — is an unforgettable sight. Jamie Blackett explains more.
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A magnificent period country house with 20 acres in the Northumberland countryside
Style and space go hand in hand at West Grange Hall, in the village of Scots Gap in Northumberland.
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What you'll find in Country Life's 125th anniversary special issue, from houses and gardens to girls in pearls
Take a look inside Country Life 11 May 2022, our very special issue commemorating the magazine's 125th anniversary.
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Want to work for Country Life?
Country Life is looking for someone to join the team over the next few months — are you interested? Or do you know someone who might be?
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Opinion: Why small family farms should be the future of agriculture in Britain
Many aspects of farming are expanding — and not always in a good way. Jason Goodwin argues that it needs re-balancing, with a return to multiple small family farms, neighbourly cooperation and a bolstering of the local community.
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The big thing that Jeremy Clarkson got wrong in Clarkson's Farm
Our agricultural columnist Agromenes is impressed with how Jeremy Clarkson has shed light on modern farming — but there is one glaring omission that he can't forgive.
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Agromenes: The terrible warnings which must make us take food self-sufficiency seriously again
Country Life's agriculture columnist Agromenes on why we need to learn the lessons of the tragic events of the last couple of years.
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Jason Goodwin: How to hold the biggest marmalade competition the world has ever seen in the teeth of a gale-force storm
Ahead of the storms which battered Britain a week or so ago, Jason Goodwin filed his dispatches from Dalemain, a beautiful Lake District stately home, where a rather unusual competition was taking place.
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Farming Life: 'The scale of the inflation is boggling... The January price for our milk is double what we did our budgets on'
As high inflation takes hold, farmers are, for once, making hay says Jamie Blackett.
