Get back to nature at Hooke Farm rewilding weekend
HOOKE Farm, near Beaminster (DT8 3NZ), will be hosting a rewilding weekend as part of the National Garden Scheme, June...
French twin town residents jet into Sherborne for visit (or jumelage!)
RESIDENTS of Sherborne’s twin town Granville, Normandy, enjoyed a swap – or jumelage – with town members recently. The visitors...
FARMING COLUMN: ‘Lambs behave just like their mums’
by Tria Stebbing THEN, just like magic, the grass went mad. If we had a flock of 350, we still...
FIELD & STREAM COLUMN: ‘Back when we had late light nights…’
by A J Selby Spring, being a tough act to follow, God created June JUST before I hit my teenage...
Yeovil swimmer Rebecca goes close in SW championships
by Ashley Tomkins EIGHT swimmers from Yeovil District Swimming Club achieved the qualifying times to compete in the Swim England...
Shaftesbury cyclist Paul Hopkins qualifies for world championships
CYCLIST Paul Hopkins from Shaftesbury emerged a winner in the Gravel World Series round in Scotland and qualified for the...
Meditations in nature: Blackbird singing in the dead of night
by Susanna Curtin I CANNOT get over how quickly the year is passing. May is already at its close, and...
Family marking 50 years at Plumber Manor in Sturminster Newton
AN ‘archetypal’ Dorset country house hotel is marking its 50th anniversary this month. Plumber Manor, in Sturminster Newton, was opened...
GARDENING COLUMN: Lime-tolerant rhododendrons for alkaline soil
by Sally Gregson EVERY year at Chelsea nursery exhibitors introduce new, interesting plants, and the plant that won lots of...
GARDENING COLUMN: Put your garden to the acid test
by Sally Gregson FOR many gardeners working out the pH of their soil can be perplexing and confusing. And yet...
