Country Life

CROSS Lanes Organic Farm has been judged a regional winner in the Countryside Alliance Awards. The awards, nicknamed the "rural...

Bugle Ajuga reptansBUGLE is a small, creeping plant common throughout the UK and found in woodlands, pastures and at roadsides....

The Water Aven (Geum rivale) - Button, Granny bonnet and 'Cure-all'AT this time of year, large swathes of the water...

DISABLED people, those who rely on mobility scooters and toddlers in buggies can now enjoy more upper dale beauty spots...

REUSABLE Barnard Castle Farmers' Market branded shopping bags are proving popular with customers to the monthly event.The bags were designed...

FULL services have been restored at the Bowlees Visitor Centre with the return of the information centre, indoor dining, the...

A DAY'S fishing on fly-only Hury reservoir took an unusual turn for a dale angler.At first, Shane Jackson simply thought...

A HEBRIDEAN sheep named Miss Piggy due to her voracious appetite may be one of the oldest of the breed...

Teasel (Dipsacus sativus) Fuller's teasel, Brushes-and-combsTEASEL is a large plant, up to six feet high, and common on waste ground,...

Pignuts (Conopodium majus)"HERE we go gathering nuts in May," says the nursery rhyme; but what kind of nuts are ripe...