Country Life 29 June 2022
Country Life 29 June 2022 is our sustainability special issue, featuring everything from seahorses to smallholders.


What lies beneath
Vital habitats for seahorses and sand eels, carbon-storing seagrass meadows must be saved, believes Jack Watkins
Green pioneers
Renewable energy sounds new, but it goes much further back, finds Jonathan Lee
Small by name, but not by nature
Making Tom and Barbara proud: Julie Harding talks to thriving 21st-century smallholders
A new lease of life
Why buy new when there are so many delights to be bought second hand? Flora Watkins finds the best shops to visit
Jacquiline Creswell’s favourite painting
The curator picks an intensely powerful mixed-media piece
Masterpiece
Jack Watkins admires the work of a pioneering photographer
Urban streams
The health—and mind—of the Victorian public was improved beyond measure by the rise of the often magnificent drinking fountain, explains Kathryn Ferry
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Head for the farm
Agritourism is on the rise again, discovers Rosie Paterson
Think inside the box
Forget mass-produced super-market fare and order a meat box, advises Vicky Liddell
Interiors
Style without guilt: salvaged tiles and plastic-bottle blankets, plus the revival of our ceramics industry
Luxury
Eco parties, ethical diamonds and Princess Marie-Chantel
How green is their valley
Wildlife and plants alike thrive in the garden of Low Crag in Cumbria, finds George Plumptre
Come what blooms
Flora Watkins talks to Charlie Harpur, the new head gardener at Knepp Castle in West Sussex
Kitchen garden cook
Melanie Johnson conjures meals with cherry tomatoes
Thinking big, thinking Wagnerian
Henrietta Bredin admires the vision of Longborough opera
And much more
Country Life is unlike any other magazine: the only glossy weekly on the newsstand and the only magazine that has been guest-edited by HRH The King not once, but twice. It is a celebration of modern rural life and all its diverse joys and pleasures — that was first published in Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee year. Our eclectic mixture of witty and informative content — from the most up-to-date property news and commentary and a coveted glimpse inside some of the UK's best houses and gardens, to gardening, the arts and interior design, written by experts in their field — still cannot be found in print or online, anywhere else.
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17 outstanding homes for sale across Britain, from under £250k to £6.5 million, as seen in Country Life
Something for every budget in this week's round up of homes across the country that have come to market via Country Life.
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'We started thinking: if we were going to design a bike for Aston Martin, what would it look like? And then we simply couldn’t stop': Aston's new bike has everything you could ever dream of — except a price tag
The new Aston Martin .1R bicycle, a collaboration with manufacturer J.Laverack, leaves Paul Henderson stirred rather than shaken.