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Beauty treatment down the drain

Following a Code Brown alert, Paul Burt spends a day on the tools before admitting defeat and calling a plumber.

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Oh, the hypocrisy

Mark Chamberlain seeks a translation for one of his cooperative’s box-ticking exercises.

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Niche operator

Robert Hodgkins has found a niche on his Hertfordshire farm in England selling the Romneys to arable farmers as a means to control blackgrass and increase soil fertility.

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After the dry, the deluge

Fickle weather has been a challenge for Roger Barton setting up for the new season.

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Life is mud and a masseuse

With a mild but very wet winter there’s been a lot of mud and massage for Suzie Corboy in the Catlins.

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Trees pressure land market

Life is starting to return to something resembling normal in Scotland following the most recent Covid-19 lockdown, John Scott writes.

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Spreading the legs

Sister act: Amy Hoogenboom clears up some column confusion.

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Time to tee off

Micha Johansen is rapt with her foray into golf as it has turned out to be a family affair.   

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Swell guys

A couple of well-seasoned guys from near Gore deserve credit for Groundswell, writes Mark Chamberlain.

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On the road to backflips

Northland is stuck in a roading rut, enough to make Chris Biddles grumpy.

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