Cowpats

Cowpats offer comedy gold with a misplaced footstep and a valuable cost saving on artificial fertiliser. But they can also tell us about the land beneath, as Tim Field explains.…

Restore a garden urn

If your garden urn has suffered one too many storms and is looking a little worse for wear, find out how to restore a garden urn. Urns have been used…

David Beckham

Fielders know that the best weekend is a sporting one. And now David Beckham agrees with us. The well-known footballer was spotted enjoying a day’s partridge shooting with mate Guy…

Raspberry vinegar

Learn how to make raspberry vinegar to soothe sore throats, enjoy with pancakes or simply make water a little more interesting. The hedgerow is practically groaning with goodies at the…

Ploughing

The mighty plough has moulded our landscape and culture. But does ploughing have a place in modern farming? Tim Field considers its future. For more from The Field’s new farming…

Ian MacGillivray

Ian MacGillivray uses his sporting art to voice the entire journey of stalking. Not just that glimpse of the stag. With fears that sport is being brought to us in…

Harvest

In the first of a new regular column for The Field on modern farming, Tim Field considers the UK harvest and current shifts in cereal production. If your homegrown harvest…