Sustainability and Environment

The dress that launched Tany's big idea - named Joy and purchased from Sue Ryder Photo Jason Bryant

The Mayor of Wells invites businesses to dress for success

Inside The Makers Boutique in Crediton. Photo: The Makers Boutique

How a Devon designer is putting Crediton on the fashion map

Justine Lee modelling one of her gilets alongside some Dorset Down sheep at Rampisham Hill Farm. Their wool pads out the quilted gilet. (Photo: Tom Lee)

Luxury wool items for the wool of local pure bred sheep

The River Stour near Sandwich GETTY

Why Kent Wildlife Trust is asking people to help “Save our Stour”

Wesley Wyatt with 100 acres of potatoes. Photo: Wesley Wyatt

Is this Somerset's oldest farmer?

Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones MBE aka The Black Farmer. Photo: theblackfarmer.com

The Black Farmer on his successful business and why farming needs diversity

The River Deben estury at Felixstowe, part of Hydrocycle. Photo: EADT archive/Mike Page

Everything you need to know about the Felixstowe Hydrocycle

Balancing climate action with respecting and protecting the landscape will be challenging, and will require effective collaboration and partnership working. Photo: Cotswolds National Landscape

How Cotswolds National Landscape is creating a pathway to net zero

Peter aims to have nine acres of nut trees on at least three sites by 2027. Image: Becca Perl

From vertical farming to forest gardening at a family farm in Sway

Hemp growing at Wakelyns Agroforestry farm, Fressingfield. Photo: Jayne Lindill

The reason why hemp is now being grown in Suffolk

Welcome to the Cotswolds AONB

Council welcomes halt to Cotswold National Park plans

How ash dieback looks as it ravages the countryside. YWT

The fight against ash dieback throughout Yorkshire

New Forest Escapes

20 ways to take part in Sustainable September

The Community Forest programme means you can get funding to cover the planting and maintenance of trees on your land.

Sponsored Here’s how to get funding to plant trees on your land in Devon

Some parts of the country have a hosepipe ban in place

Top tips on conserving water in your garden this summer

One of Elmore's treehouses, nestled in the estate's woodland. rewildthings.com

Rewilding at 13th-century Elmore Court

Daneway Banks. (c) Nathan Millar

The importance of rewilding and how we can get involved

Planting trees to create a wooded corridor connecting two woodland areas in a field above the Derwent Reservoir (National Trust)

Why the National Trust in planting thousands of trees in the Peak District

Would you consider a water cremation instead of a traditional one?

Water cremations to be offered in the UK to reduce carbon footprint after death

Foraged seeds, grasses and plants ready to be transformed into dye. Studio Bokehgo

The Kirklees project encouraging people to recycle clothes

Ray Mears. (c) Jonathan Buckley

We owe everything to trees, says woodland expert Ray Mears

Organisations are concerned at the number of wildfires emergency services will have to deal with this summer

Risk of summer wildfires raised to 'very high' in swathes of England and Wales

Wildflower meadows offer a more varied and nutritious diet for grazing horses. Getty Images

How grazing horses can benefit species-rich grasslands

The Community Farm. Photo: Meghan Willoughby

New eco-farming zone in Somerset puts nature first

Professor Jules Pretty OBE. Photo: Jules Pretty

Jules Pretty looks back on his hopes for a more sustainable future

Using heritage grains and low input methods can increase soil health and biodiversity, and allows a focus on quality over quantity. Squashed Robot Films

What will arable farming in the Cotswolds be like in years to come?

Work is going on across the South Hams to preserve and protect the beautiful landscape. (c) The Sharpham Trust

Community groups create Sustainable South Hams in Devon

The ancient craft of hedgelaying is still relevant today right across the Cotswolds

A look at the impact of the Cotswolds National Landscape scheme

iJo Power handle everything from the initial consultation to the final installation, ensuring everything is complete to the highest standard.

Sponsored 4 benefits of installing solar panels in your home

The vast product range at Zilch in Tonbridge CREDIT Emma-Louise Richards

Stories of hope, change and inspiration behind Kent's refill shops

Vintage car at the Goodwood Festival of Speed

Goodwood organiser striving to make motorsport events carbon neutral

The iconic Seven Sisters, with the Coastguard Cottages in the foreground, have starred in countless films

How Rudyard Kipling and his friends saved the Seven Sisters

Volunteer citizen scientists monitoring aquatic life in the river near Charlbury

Monitoring the River Evenlode and its tributaries

The Solent's saltmarsh habitat is vital for seabirds

The new multi-million pound project to save The Solent

Writer, naturalist and mystic, W H Hudson

Conservationist and author William Henry Hudson's Devon links

Kate Drury’s company, Sustainable Rope Ltd, uses traceable wool from British farms to make rope which is biodegradable and renewable

Cirencester student named as one of top 50 Women in Innovation

Penny's sculpture looks very striking when photographed at night

Devon artist Penny Hardy makes sculpture for UNICEF

Alex Ball, GWT’s funding manager

Celebrating women in conservation and farming

Record-breaking frog spawn spotted in the New Forest

The Chelmer & Blackwater Nature Reserve is now a flourishing habitat

Discover the Chelmer & Blackwater Nature Reserve, Maldon

An aerial view of Southport showing The Atkinson

Why does the Atkinson in Southport keep their own bees?

A New Tomorrow by Amy Jobes

Why Devon based seascape painter Amy Jobes loves the coast

Land managers of the future: George, Riley and Joe from the Cotswolds School in Bourton-on-the-Water

Training future land managers of the Cotswolds

A swimming pig... this lucky one in the slightly more exotic location of the Bahamas

Adam Henson on the story behind Gloucestershire’s swimming pigs

Mike Keen and Lucy Hutchings with their goats

Lucy Hutchings & Mike Keen build a homestead in Suffolk

Lichen comes in an array of different colours

What do lichens and mosses do for our wild spaces?

EA Sustain founder Joanne Ooi

EA Sustain: East Anglia's first sustainability festival at Firstsite, Colchester

Spot the robo-dog runs down the steps to the Lower Water Terrace at Blenheim Palace

Blenheim trialling robot dogs to monitor estate’s ecosystem

The Boyds\' pedigree Hereford cattle live as one family group

Growing healthy farms in the Cotswolds

Great Dixter, Northiam, East Sussex

Meadow Treasures: Why King Charles loves 'stunning' Sussex

Mersea Island's marshland

Discover the creatures of the Essex coast

Trees were picked to create timbers for the a Saxon dwelling

A Saxon house from Blenheim’s ancient oaks

In autumn, the Trust\'s hardy herds of ponies will be back out on reserves as a form of natural grassland management

The wild side of autumn with Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust

Blenheim Estate's gardeners are letting areas of the landscaped parkland and formal gardens grow wild in a bid to encourage wildflowers and boost biodiversity

Rewilding at Blenheim Estate