• A blue countryside
    There seems to be more linseed in the countryside this year - or is that just around where I live? It's just turning blue. Perhaps it was planted in advance to celebrate a Conservative-dominated coalition...
  • The art of the countryside
    Blogger: Laura White. PA to Public Affairs Manager I love impressionism, Claude Monets capturing of the light around him was so accurate that scientists are now using his paintings to work out the...
  • The countryside is drying
    On Thursday, a housepipe ban will be introduced to large parts of southern and eastern England. Eight water companies have said they will impose water restrictions after two very dry winters have left...
  • Don't cut the countryside - update
    The Wildlife and Countryside Link event and press release referred to in my previous blog have attracted some media coverage from the BBC and The Independent and were, I'm told, mentioned on the BBC Radio...
  • 6 get out in the countryside
    The agriculture policy team at the lodge spend much of their time in meetings in Defra offices, sat at our desks, or on trains to Brussels. So the opportunity to get out on farms and talk to farmers is...