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• Grey for danger, red for hope

  22 Oct 2014: Country diary: Wenlock Edge, Shropshire: Red is love and luck in this landscape, where leaf colours fall together to become brown

• Harvestman meets an eight-legged rival

  21 Oct 2014: Country Diary: Stone’s Allotments, Havant, Hampshire: Sensing danger, the harvestman picks up pace, scaling the clods of earth in its path

• Mountains are measured not in size, but in atmosphere

  20 Oct 2014: Country Diary: Kentmere, Lake District A transformation began to unfold. Blue sky appeared, then fog-wreathed mountains, their tops gasping in the clear air

• 50 years ago: A day on the desolate dunes

  19 Oct 2014: Originally published in the Guardian on 22 October 1964: A day on the dunes and salt marshes of Norfolk’s most desolate stretch of coast

• OFM awards 2014 best local farmer: Richard Stephens at Monkshill Farm, Kent

  19 Oct 2014: Care about an animal’s welfare and you’ll taste the benefit on your plate, says farmer Richard Stephens. By Allan Jenkins

• The eerie sense of being watched

  18 Oct 2014: Country Diary: Strathnairn, Highlands I saw the roe deer, just staring at me, motionless apart from the mouth that was still chewing away

• Snail braves onslaught of wind and rain on pane of death

  17 Oct 2014: Country Diary: South Uist: It seems a miracle the powerful gusts do not break the suction and rip the creature from the window

• Microdairies: remember milk with a creamy top?

  16 Oct 2014: Just as microbreweries are revolutionising the beer market, a new breed of microdairy is trying to do the same for milk. Tom Levitt reports

• Ivy bees share bankside bar as flowers turn to teacup fruits

  16 Oct 2014: Country Diary: Sandy, Bedfordshire: The smallest insect was little longer than a rice grain

• Poisonous lords and ladies, and the edible fruit of the chocolate vine

  15 Oct 2014: Country Diary: Allendale, Northumberland: Garden plants are brimful of seed, while berries glow on arum stalks like sinister corn on the cob

• Wood pigeons make wonderful contribution to our countryside

  14 Oct 2014: Country Diary: Blackwater Carr, Norfolk: Moments in midwinter when the birds seem sublimely beautiful

• Memories from a lifetime on the fells

  13 Oct 2014: Country Diary: Vale of Eden, Murton “She sold me to a farmer when I was 14, for £9. ‘Take him away,’ she said, ‘give him food and shelter and learn him how to work.’ ”

• 50 years ago: Lakeland foxhound with a mind of his own

  12 Oct 2014: Originally published in the Guardian on 19 October 1964: The foxhounds are getting in trim for a hard winter’s work on the fells

• A riotous assembly of dune flora

  11 Oct 2014: Country Diary: Harlech The great dune system that stretches for four miles with the hills of Eryri as exquisite backdrop is a prime place to botanize

• The woods are where the action is

  10 Oct 2014: Country diary: Wenlock Edge, Shropshire Each leaf spins and twirls through the air in its own unique dance

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