Category: A Country Living

Forever fronds

Meet the couple who have brought an exotic plant world to the village of Spetisbury, growing a pteridophile passion into a living It was a...

A binding narrative

Peter Wiltshire learned the art of hand bookbinding from his father. Now, he’s restoring literary treasures in his own Dorset workshop Peter Wiltshire gently lifts...

Dorset’s master of strings

Dorset luthier Jeremy Walsh on listening to the wood, a double bass jigsaw, holding a $15m Stradivarius and Friday night rave music In his self-built...

From farm to festive feast

Tracie Beardsley meets a Dorset farmer gobbling up success by farming free-range turkeys – even some vegetarians are tempted! Mark Chilcott has been thinking about...

Dorset’s keeper of the past

Rob Gray: history-loving boy, former precious painting courier and now Wimborne’s museum curator cataloguing 40,000 pieces of Dorset’s past Rob Gray is squirrelled away in...

The 46-year tractor ride

Tracie Beardsley catches up with C&O’s Matthew Holland - in between him selling tractors, fighting fires, making honey and selling cider! When the excited 16-year-old...

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Grassroots racing under pressure

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How Dorset Became One of England’s Finest Food Counties

There are counties in England with a food reputation that precedes them: Yorkshire for its puddings, Cornwall for its pasties, Kent for its orchards....