Country Living UK

Whether you live in the town or countryside, in Country Living you’ll find a wealth of ideas for your home and garden, learn about traditional crafts, keep informed of rural issues, enjoy irresistible dishes using seasonal produce and, above all, escape the stress and strain of modern-day life.

Country Living UK

A note from the editor

April

discover…

WEEKENDERS

emporium • Handcrafted Easter gifts and pretty spring buys from our favourite artisans, small businesses and high-street brands

Editor’s choice

The new GOOD LIFE • There’s never been a better time to go self-sufficient. In our ongoing series, Sally Coulthard shares tried-and-tested tips from her Yorkshire smallholding

Three HERITAGE BREEDS TO TRY

Mini duck egg frittatas

6 questions …with a duck farmer

Alice’s ADVENTURES UNDERGROUND • She started her career as a junior doctor before becoming bewitched by old bones and subterranean mysteries. Digging For Britain presenter Professor Alice Roberts on why she will always have one foot in the grave…

THE BEST IS HISTORY

10 OF THE BEST PLACES TO SPOT SPRING BLOOMS

10 QUESTIONS WITH… FARMER WILL FARMER WILL • The Love Island star on sharing farm life with an audience of millions – and why he’s just as happy chatting to his sheep

RULING THE ROOST • Fashion graduate Amelia Strong used to incubate hens’ eggs in her bedroom. Now, she’s running the family farm, hatching pedigree poultry for hen fanciers countrywide

TO Dye FOR • Master the ancient craft of natural dyeing to create colourful fabrics that sing of spring

RECIPES FROM The IRISH BAKERY • Photographer Andrew Montgomery and Leiths-trained cook Cherie Denham continue their series based on their latest book, The Irish Bakery. This month: an Easter extravaganza

INTRODUCING BAMBURGH FROM COUNTRY LIVING AT DFS

THE SUPER-SORTED KITCHEN • An efficient and streamlined kitchen doesn’t have to be spartan and sterile. Here are 20 ways to make it feel organised, warm and welcoming

THE BEST OF BRITISH DESIGN COUNTRY LIVING AT HOMEBASE

SOAP STARS • Medical herbalist Kate Scott became a farmer almost by accident. Now, she makes sheep’s-milk soap from her own flock, infusing it with flowers

MAY THE GORSE BE WITH YOU • Chocolarder makes the finest bean-to-bar chocolate with flowers foraged on the Cornish coast

For when your heart is in the country • Subscribe to the digital edition of Country Living magazine and escape into an appealing world of rural beauty and tranquillity. You’ll find a wealth of ideas for your home and garden, learn about traditional crafts, discover inspiring rural businesses and enjoy delicious recipes using seasonal produce.

ONWARDS & OUTWARDS • Treasured artworks and clever upcycles fill this creative single-storey home, which has grown, with its family, over time

REVIVING THE OLD VICARAGE GARDEN • Linking a garden to its historic surroundings calls for an eye for architectural elements as well as an instinct for sympathetic planting. Sarah and Peter Furness have both in spades

REMODELLING THE MANOR • Former handbag designer Sarah Southwell has used her creative flair to transform a tired 17th-century manor into a classic-meets-quirky family home

COUNTRY LIVING MODERN RUSTIC

HOME comforts DECORATING NOTES

MEET THE AVANT GARDENERS • For International Women’s Day, we celebrate some of the pioneering women who have changed the face of gardening in the past 200 years

DOWN to EARTH GARDENING NOTES

LUXURY WITH A RUSTIC TWIST COUNTRY LIVING AT THE FLOOR ROOM

ENCHANTMENT IN THE EVERYDAY • Katherine May felt ground down by daily life. Then...