Originally published February 2021. Messing about in boats, you come across all kinds of creatures – but it’s not the wild ones that chew your ear off. Beavers do extraordinary...
About Martin Hole
Golden Oldie
Wild things, I think I love you
Originally published June 2021. Our farms can be both wildlife-friendly and efficiently productive. Nirmal Purja, on completing his unique winter climb to the summit of K2,...
Golden Oldie
Numbers, metrics, Ruby Tigers and the value of an oak tree
Originally published September 2021. Why preserving the irreplaceable benefits everyone and especially moths. The names of moths are a delicious smorgasbord of rich imagery. Our...
The Farmer
An empty barn
Originally published February 2022. Seemingly unused space can be receptacles of history. In the middle of our farmyard sits an empty barn. The footprint is bigger than that of a...
The Farmer
Frog’s ears
Frog morphology crops up a lot in our descriptions of nature. Babington’s orache (please read on) has frog’s head seeds, toadflax flowers are said to resemble the gape of a toad....
Golden Oldie
In remembrance
A tribute to the American biologist, naturalist andwriter Edward Osborne Wilson. Originally published June 2022. On Boxing Day, 2021, the world lost one of its greatest...