Hedging your bets
While everyone is looking forward to the balmy days of summer, enjoying trees in full leaf and green hedgerows, Russell Woodham, The Dorset Hedgelayer,...
Tales of the Shaftesbury Swifts
Discover how one local wildlife group is providing homes for this enchanting summer migrant.
From their spectacular aerobatics to their distinctive screaming call, swifts are...
Picnic picking to perfection
As we step up the picnic season, spare an extra thought for that piece of plastic and where you’re about to put it!
A whopping...
Go orienteering for wellness
The first of two new orienteering courses was launched in Blandford on Saturday 11 June, when Mayor Colin Stevens and his wife Chris untied...
Natural talent
Captured on camera: the UK’s largest resident Hawk-moth spotted in Blandford!
Rachael and Charles Holland spotted this beauty among their newly planted runner beans in...
Hydrogen: the fuel of the future?
How much do you really know about the magic molecule being touted as the solution
to the current energy crisis…
His critics have recently accused Boris...
60 seconds with… Sophie Irwin
Her debut novel,
A Lady’s Guide to Fortune-Hunting, received rapturous reviews, and at just 27 Sophie Irwin is already on book two. She attended The...
Sheep shearing time is getting near
The flock are thoroughly being spoilt with a selection of summer grazing paddocks now being offered. The recent weather has kick-started the field and...
Have you seen the world through a cow’s eyes?
As well as working as a full-time farm vet, I am also a member on the board of directors for BCVA (The British Cattle...
All the cattle are on the pastures
All the first cut silage is safely in – it was a tormenting time with the catchy weather, rain then sun. The crop was...
