Photo Gallery! Starting with nextdoor's apple blossom, here are a few more photos to enjoy.  Blue skies...  Colour! Outdoor living Sun-warmed dogs Happy People Making Bread with new-found energy! ...

A bee shelter provides space for solitary bees to nest in. There are around 220 species of wild bees in the UK, called 'solitary' because they make individual nest cells for their larvae. It is these solitary rather than bumble bees that will be attracted to the bee shelter Calvin is making. Some solitary bees are very small and black so they may not even look like what many of us think of as bees! Here is ...

Here are Scott Hyde and Calvin Barden inside their pop-up sweat lodge, built and dismantled in 24 hours for the purposes of laddish fun and frolics.  Gus Unger-Hamilton from Alt-J is wielding the power tool amidst the increasingly inclement weather. Enjoying the Sweat Lodge, Scott Hyde and Calvin Barden ...

Fresh from her appearance on the Alan Titchmarsh show, bushcraft expert Hannah Nicholls talks to us about her passionate belief in outdoor life. ‘The best way to spend time out of doors is to have a project. It doesn’t really matter what it is, but many people have lost the ability even to be out of doors in opens spaces.’ Hannah was raised on a Suffolk small-holding and as a young mother lived in the Queen ...

It's nearly 100 years since the founding father of the outdoor movement described walking as a cure for all his mind and body: 'I have two doctors, my left leg and my right. When body and mind are out of gear (and those twin parts of me live at such close quarters that one always catches melancholy from the other) I know that I have only to call in my doctors and I shall be well again' wrote G M Trevelyan i ...

Green wood furniture has everything going for it. Really beautiful, hand-made, infinite in it's possibilities and as environmentally conscious as you could possibly wish. We joined Mark Haughton in his workshop to see him teaching the art of making a Green Wood Chair at the Forest Garden, a glamper's paradise in the heart of Sussex, and were lucky catch film star Greta Scacchi taking some time out from her ...

They say that autumn is the best time for planting a fruit garden. Crisp autumn mornings are certainly a perfect time to be outdoors. And a dead rhododendron seemed to provide the perfect opportunity to get all muddy and have a go. [video id="wvJBQ9pD6d8" type="youtube"] ...

The buzz word is bees on a farm in rural Sussex where sold-out courses in natural beekeeping have led to a demand for these beautiful 'Sun Hives'. Many see natural beekeeping as being vital to our survival, since modern beekeeping uses artificial breeding methods which are now thought to have damaged the genetics and disease resistance of the bees. The 'sun hives' are allow the bees to design their brood ne ...

This is Red, a tiny 14-year-old Welsh Mountain stallion, with his owner June Turner spotted in Crowborough, East Sussex yesterday. They paused willingly for a photo and a chat and patting Red's sleek neck one notices how hard it is - pure muscle. Together they keep fit through daily outings to visit friends and take in the scenery near the Ashdown Forest in Sussex. Whilst he is perfectly trained to harness, ...

You can create a Roman atmosphere in any garden, and even with no garden at all. Whilst Rome was not built in a day, the romantic gardener can create the feel of the eternal city by plundering a Garden Centre armed lightly with a credit card (or a pair of scissors) .... whilst for the ambitions, the creation of a truly Roman garden could be the hobby and pursuit of a lifetime. Entrance The Romans loved a gr ...