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Curious Questions: Who started the first charity shop?

Charity shops have become a staple of British high streets in the past decade, and more and more of us are doing our shopping there — particularly as times are tight. But what’s the story behind them? Martin Fone unearths the history of the charity shop. At some point 88% of us have bought something from […]

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This Week in Agribusiness, January 7, 2023

Chad Colby shares highlights from the Consumer Electronic Show, where this year ag equipment was on display. Mary-Thomas Hart, Chief Counsel, NCBA joins Mike to discuss the new WOTUS rule. Mary-Thomas shares why the WOTUS rule is important, differences in National or State regulations, also, the new rule creates a case-by-case regulation and how these […]

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Northam author Katie Stewart releases fourth book | Farm Weekly

Northam-based author and illustrator Katie Stewart has released four books in four years, realising a life-long dream to become an illustrator. Ms Stewarts latest book, Wombat Cant Sing, was released earlier this year and was based on a story she wrote about 30 years ago. What Colour is the Sea hit the bookshelves in early […]

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The Giant’s Causeway – Country Life

The Giant’s Causeway is a geological marvel, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and an unmissable stop for anyone heading to Northern Ireland. Geology made the British countryside. It was the freakishly intricate composition of the geological map that created such diversity of natural features and building materials, which seem to vary every few miles, as […]

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Atlanta Trevone: The apartments making waves in Cornwall

Lydia Stangroom discovers a New England-style beach house on the Cornish coast that’s as enchanting in the winter as it is come summer If wild swimming in natural pools, golden-hued sunsets over the coast and some of Cornwall’s best seafood weren’t reasons enough to visit Trevone — on Cornwall’s wild north coast — then the […]

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Photos from The Land readers: how they spent their holidays | The Land

Ben is a digital journalist for ACM Agriculture, covering Queensland Country Life, The Land, Farmonline, Stock Journal, Stock & Land, Farm Weekly and the North Queensland Register. Ben is a digital journalist for ACM Agriculture, covering Queensland Country Life, The Land, Farmonline, Stock Journal, Stock & Land, Farm Weekly and the North Queensland Register. Click […]

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From green to golden in a week | In Fiona’s Garden | The Land

Zucchinis are the most demanding, followed by eggplants, bush beans and red-stemmed spinach, with sweet corn, amazingly, the most drought hardy: mine survived a week over Christmas with no extra water apart from a brief shower, as I forgot to tell the kind neighbour who watered everything else where I’d planted it. Click to check […]

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