If you get a chance to visit the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano, Italy you will no doubt meet its most famous resident Ötzi the Iceman. Ötzi, to whom the museum is devoted, is a hunter ...

Summer may be over but with autumn comes ripening fruit fit for foragers, including the sloe berry that can be used to make a tempting tipple to help get you through the winter. Sign up to our ...

Can you detect the faint tang of woodsmoke? Perhaps you’ve noticed trees turning from their limey hue to a deeper racing green, or the sharpness to the morning air, like a wire in the nostril. Yes, ...

Wolsingham, Weardale Most hedgerow blackthorns are brutally trimmed but these small trees, unpruned and unharvested by birds, are laden with fruit In early May, this blackthorn thicket had been ...

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Fancy making your own sloe gin? Here’s everything you need to know. Winter is well on the way and there are few more delicious tipples to enjoy on a cold dark night than a sloe gin. Many Scottish ...