Entire £233m budget for 2026 allocated in less than a day, leaving thousands of farmers disappointed

Crops and flowers rely on them for survival, but wild bees are declining – and crucial nutrients will go missing from our diets as a result

A day of learning about bumblebees & solitary bees followed by a bee-hunt round Mothecombe , RHS S.West Partner Garden of the Year 2025

We need… your weeds? The definition of a weed is a plant in the wrong place. What if we moved them to the right place? Red Dead-nettle ( L...

The Major bee-fly, Bombylius major - a fly species which mimics mining bees in order to get close to their nest burrows - it hovers outside the burrow, flicking its eggs into the hole

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[I wrote this for my local allotment newsletter, and it felt like as good a place as any to restart blogging!] I joined the allotmenteering ...