December’s BV Magazine – read it here 🙂

Hunting humans – Senior Master Jeremy Whaley tells the story of the South Downs...

Rotakids are cleaning up the town

RotaKids from Shaftesbury Primary joined the Abbey Primary RotaKids and the Hilltop Litter Pickers on the first litter pick of the school year on...

Looking after your mental health during the festive period

Dorset Mind volunteer Annabel Goddard suggests a pause for reflection and gratitude during the darkest months of the year As the year draws to a...

Books for Christmas 2023

Get your craft on!

Unwrap Dorset: unique experiences to gift this Christmas

From great bustard tours to dry stone walling – Rachael Rowe presents The BV’s guide to local gifts for the person who has everything. We...

Housing in North Dorset – how to do it better

With elections looming, North Dorset CPRE’s Rupert Hardy challenges unsustainable, unaffordable local housing strategies Sadly, we and others were unable to stop the North Dorset...

Shillingstone | Then and Now

The Old Ox Inn has undergone quite a transformation – though the bones of the building remain, all the windows have changed and the...

A sprinkle of Dorset snow | POSTCARDS FROM A DORSET COLLECTION

This month Barry Cuff has chosen a couple of seasonal chilly postcards full of the white stuff. One’s a typically abrupt ‘Dad message’ from...

Child Okeford | Then and Now

Step back in time with our ‘Then and Now’ feature, where vintage postcards meet modern-day reality. Explore the past and present on the same...

A note from Stalbridge

This month Barry Cuff has chosen a couple of postcards of Stalbridge – and as it was so popular last month, he’s showing us...

Holidays in Sturminster Newton | POSTCARDS FROM A DORSET COLLECTION

This month Barry Cuff has chosen a couple of colour postcards of Sturminster Newton – and we can see the backs as well as...

The mysterious journey of AlanTuring’s documents, from Sherborne to America – and back

An astonishing tale of undercover archivists, FBI involvement and the triumphant return to Britain of the stolen Turing documents “He does not seem to have...

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The Random 19 Questions

The Random 19 with world-famous novelist Tracy Chevalier.

Tracy Chevalier FRSL is an author of 10 novels, perhaps best known for the international bestseller Girl with a Pearl Earring, a timeless modern...

The Random 19 with Mat Follas

Chef, Forager and Liqueur Maker Mat Follas. Mat won the TV series BBC MasterChef in 2009, and opened his first restaurant, The Wild Garlic in Beaminster to...

Author Minette Walters takes on the Random 19 questions

Minette Walters’ first full-length crime novel, The Ice House, was published in 1992. It took two and a half years to write and was...

The BV magazine is a monthly digital publication which launched in August 2020, and it is in no way connected with the original, much-loved Blackmore Vale Magazine (owned by Reach PLC, and which ceased publication early the same year), nor with any other, more recently launched printed publication with a similar name. Never the free paper you pick up from the floor of the petrol station, The BV is the half hour read you spend a weekend coffee with.

Dorset Island Discs

Dorset Food & Drink

It’s trailblazing treats and local eats at Pimperne, where visitors are enjoying the transformation of a cowshed into a bustling community...

Most of us stock up a little too much at Christmas – and if there’s one thing I hate it’s waste....

Local growers and producers are celebrating homegrown produce, promoting sustainability and fostering a sense of community “We’re walked past the garden place...

Celebrating British sustainability: from farm to plate, LLTL founder Barbara Cossins is passionate about locally-sourced food Our British farmers and producers work...

This is a fabulously versatile recipe – the same dough base can be made into either a sweet or savoury version....

Three years ago they bought a smallholding – now the Cooper family make their living selling their nationally award-winning meat products It...

Dorset Farming

So long, Thérèse | Farm tales

Andrew Livingston considers Thérèse Coffey’s exit – an end...

Find Your festive bird locally with NFU’s Turkey Finder

Embrace a locally-sourced Christmas with the NFU’s push for...

Autumn farming:happy slugs, pudding soil and sowing sagas

From slug battles to seedbed dilemmas, George Hosford looks...

Just how much more can our British farmers take?

As the Red Tractor scheme stirs debate, Love Local...

NFU Education sparks passion for farming at Number 10

Young learners explore farming and food at 10 Downing...

School Dreads to Farming Threads

This month Andrew Livingston is taking a nostalgic stroll through the Dorset County Showground As a young child, the news that ‘Dorset County Show is...

Dorset Wildlife

Hunting humans for fun

Lifelong kennelman Jeremy Whaley’s hunting narrative shifts from tradition...

New beaver kits!

The Dorset Beaver Project family are thriving in their...

Falling back in love with autumn

Join wildlife columnist Jane Adams on a nostalgic journey...

Hedgerows – overlooked climate heroes

Celebrating a campaign win, Rupert Hardy, Chair of North...

Just chuck it out the window! It’ll be fine

A casual toss of an innocent apple core may...

Hedgerows – overlooked climate heroes

Celebrating a campaign win, Rupert Hardy, Chair of North Dorset CPRE, says the government are finally planting 45,000 miles of hedges by 2050 In recent...

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