Recipe
This plaited fruit loaf is simple to make and is sure to earn you ‘star baker’ status. Packed with apricots, sultanas and chopped apple, and scented with orange zest and cinnamon, it’s a taste sensation. Enjoy for breakfast, buttered as toast or as a teatime treat. It freezes beautifully, so why not slice and freeze to enjoy on a rainy day!
Competition
Includes a pretty garden seat, plant troughs and a pizza oven table, worth more than £839.
Member Benefit
April 2025 sees the launch of our new partnership with Ridgeline Clothing.
Do you have a favourite country show? An event that blends the best of rural life with enthusiastic volunteers, great food and thrilling main-ring entertainment. For all of Britain’s problems, our country shows are absolute world-beaters – home to superb livestock classes, country skills and community spirit. They’re something we should be rightly proud of and, this month, show steward Dudley Edmunds gives us a behind-the-scenes glimpse of what it takes to put on a great country show.
Plus, we profile the new show on the rural scene: the Great British Farm-Fest (22-24 May). Country show by day, pop festival by night, with farming celebrities such as Jeremy Clarkson, Kaleb Cooper and Adam Henson in attendance, it could be a huge event. Hopefully the weather gods will smile on the event and the crowds will flock in (and we’ve even got a handy discount code for readers!).
Elsewhere in this edition, explorer and TV presenter Nick Crane takes us on one of his favourite walks, Dom Chinea from the ‘Repair Shop’ tells us about his move to Cornwall and new TV show ‘Dom’s Cornish Workshop’, and Hamza Yassin reveals what three things he simply can’t live without.
Countryside are delighted to partner with Tanners Wine Merchants to…