Adam Weymouth

Dec 23, 2024 | inews.co.uk | Adam Weymouth

This summer, my partner and I travelled to Greece overland with our two children, now six and four. Rather than the slog we had been quietly anxious about, we all loved it. My wife is Swedish, and this Christmas we had planned to visit her family in Gällivare, in Swedish Lapland. Read NextRead MoreOur kids were excited at the prospect of seeing their cousins as well as by the guarantee of snow.

Oct 23, 2024 | resurgence.org | Adam Weymouth

One of the penalties of an ecological education”, wrote Aldo Leopold in 1949, “is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.” Never has this truth been more apparent to me than while reading Kate Bradbury’s One Garden Against the World. “Part memoir and part call to arms”, it charts a year in the life of Bradbury’s garden at her small Victorian terrace in Portslade-on-Sea, just outside of Brighton.

Aug 6, 2024 | inews.co.uk | Adam Weymouth |Sophie Lam

A summer holiday bookended by three days of travel time each way isn’t the obvious choice for a family with two young children. However, our Greek friend had recently moved with his family back to Athens from Essex and we were keen to visit. Travelling there overland with our two children, aged six and three, wasn’t our first thought, but the more we thought about splurging money and carbon on an airline that was only nominally “low-cost”, it began to seem more appealing.

Jul 31, 2024 | newscientist.com | Adam Weymouth

The peregrine falcon, the world’s fastest bird, is thriving again in North America – for nowMIKE WALKER/AlamyFeather TrailsSophie A. H. Osborn (Chelsea Green)Wildlife biologist Sophie Osborn has spent a career working with birds that have been a feather’s breadth from extinction in the US. Her new book, Feather Trails: A journey of discovery among endangered birds, focuses on the Hawaiian crow, the California condor and the peregrine falcon (also found globally).

Apr 13, 2024 | thetimes.co.uk | Adam Weymouth

By one estimate England has 400,000km of hedgerows — a length measuring a little more than the distance to the moon. I had never given much thought to hedges beyond them being what keeps two fields apart, but this attitude is to ignore, as the book’s subtitle has it, “Britain’s greatest habitat”. Christopher Hart is the owner of about 300m of hedge in Wiltshire, and it is his experience in relaying it, in order to return it to its former state, that underpins this book.