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.…
Country House
How to 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…
The Field’s Aga competition. Britain’s best Agas.
Enter The Field’s Aga competition today to celebrate one of Britain’s best institutions. If you have an Aga as old as the house, an animal that loves to toast its…
Dress like David Beckham in the field
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…
How to make 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…
Jeep Cherokee. Less rugged but still plucky
The new Jeep Cherokee has a stylishly European interior, but Charlie Flindt finds it less rugged and has a few suggestions to improve what it was originally great at, off-roading.…
My favourite bit of kit: Gavin Gardiner chooses his Jeep
Every true sportsman has that one bit of kit that he couldn’t enter the field without. In a new series of columns, we ask what bit of kit is most…
Ploughing into the future
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, sporting artist
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…
The harvest boon
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…