This content contains affiliate links to Bookshop.org. When you buy through these links, I may earn an affiliate commission. Long regarded as unproductive and inhospitable, the UK’s peat bogs have suffered centuries of drainage, afforestation, burning, overgrazing and peat harvesting. More recently, though, we have begun to realise just how important they are as carbon …
This content contains affiliate links to Bookshop.org. When you buy through these links, I may earn an affiliate commission. Not long ago I wrote about the former coal-mining area of Speedwell in urban Bristol, along with the ways the present vegetation helps to reveal its unsettled history. In this post, I’m going to explore a …
This content contains affiliate links to Bookshop.org. When you buy through these links, I may earn an affiliate commission. Working in the Urban Design and Heritage department at Bristol City Council, my brother Pete has done a lot of digging (sometimes literally) into the history of Bristol’s various neighbourhoods. One he has recently been working …
This content contains affiliate links to Bookshop.org. When you buy through these links, I may earn an affiliate commission. At this time of year, woodland flowers are often one of the first signs of spring. They tend to be some of the earliest to flower in order to take of advantage of the extra sunlight …
This content contains affiliate links to Bookshop.org. When you buy through these links, I may earn an affiliate commission. This year, National Hedgerow Week starts on Monday 10th of October and runs through to the 17th. Celebrating its second year, this week-long appreciation of hedges aims to highlight just how important these often-overlooked wildlife havens …
This content contains affiliate links to Bookshop.org. When you buy through these links, I may earn an affiliate commission. At this time of year, many of us dream of heading to the seaside if we aren’t lucky enough to live there already. For some, the main attractions are the ice cream, sunbathing and paddling. For …