Country diary: The joy of growing something from nothing
Wellington, Somerset: Our local Transition Town group is turning a scrubby field into a forest garden – and the word is spreading
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Country diary: A place where the past is close to the surface
Allen Banks, Northumberland: On an unseasonal day, I revisit a river and gorge whose landscape wouldn’t be the same without one enterprising woman
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Country diary: In the bleak midwinter, the hedgerow waits for warmer days
Wolsingham, Weardale: The long-tailed tits are avian acrobats, scouring the twigs for food
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Country diary: The all-conquering sea eagle suddenly seems vulnerable
Abernethy Forest, Cairngorms: Avian flu has reached our biggest bird of prey. How extra special it is to experience their startling grandeur up close
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Country diary: Returning to an old haunt after nearly 50 years
Spurn Point, Yorkshire: The cliffs may be eroding at a pace, but the birdlife and landscape still brings a deep pleasure
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Country diary: This landscape is about to be transformed
Doverhay Wood, Porlock, Somerset: Once it was open moorland, then a conifer plantation. Now that’s been cleared for 13,000 new trees of oak, beech, rowan and more
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Country diary: Litter, litter, everywhere
Kendal, Cumbria: Here in the river we do our best to remove the waste that is at least visible to the naked eye
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Country diary: The nuthatch takes a toxin that can paralyse our hearts
Meeting of the Waters, Teesdale: Humans have to be wary of poisonous yew trees. Not so these masked bandits
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Country diary: Waking up to the glory of waxcaps
Buxton, Derbyshire: This previously overlooked group of fungi are the best of autumn – you can find up to 40 species in just one field
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Country diary: Moments of unease in the early darkness
Caistor St Edmund, Norfolk: Two roe deer, their big eyes dark, are not the only ones on high alert as we negotiate the low light
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