Countryman magazine

Countryman is one of the oldest, most respected countryside magazines in the world. It appears every month and is read by over 80,000 people throughout Britain and overseas, who share its concerns for the countryside, the people who live and work in it, and its wildlife.

Countryman focuses on the rural issues of today and tomorrow, as well as including features on the people, place, history and wildlife that make the British countryside so special.

In the February issue:

Know your countryside: Dickens country
Nick Channer visits Kent for the author’s bicentenary.

The dawn of a Celtic spring
Olwen Davis celebrates Imbolc

My heart is in the highlands
Kenneth Steven recalls his mother’s childhood in Glenurquhart

County confusion
It’s time to return to ancient boundaries, argues Robert Hawley

Rearing shear­ling on the North York Moors
Andrea Mynard enjoys a tasty moorland treat

Barmy about bees
Phil Penfold meets ‘bee man’ Malcolm Walker of Doncaster

Bee friendly
Close encounters of the yellow-and-black-striped kind for James Oliver

The meanest sort of labour
Diana Mackarill remembers the the world of the stone-breaker and stone-picker

Photographing the rural idyll of the Norfolk Broads
Landscape photography with J C Papworth

Meet the beetles
Cath Harris chats in Oxford to a charismatic world expert on the lifecycle of dung beetles

The adaptable ash
Robin Gates makes a handle for his old adze

Box hill through the seasons
Lena Walton explores Surrey

The healing power of working on the land
Andrea Mynard learns about theraputic farming

Something for the weekend?
Terry Wilson remembers childhood visits to the barber in the Yorkshire Dales of the 1950s

Revealing the cuckoo’s secret
Jack Watkins learns about a scheme to monitor the lifecycle of this mysterious avian interloper