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The frost performs its secret ministry... I love this reading of Coleridge's poem at the start of this video from Alfoxton Park House youtu.be/vMnioVjtBxE

What makes a fountain? And even more puzzling, what makes it holy? Writing about the Exmoor spring that is neither holy nor a fountain, but is often regarded as both theguardian.com/environment/20…

A UK citizen’s assembly on nature gives us hope, but can we really change? We need to, urgently #PeoplesPlanforNature theguardian.com/environment/20…

"Once I found myself in an expensively renovated living room where the new architects had preserved the old bullet holes under glass as a conversation point." @Susanna_Forrest on whether to skim the surface, or take root in a changing Berlin

Can citizens' assemblies save the planet? The Guardian's Sara Hudston was surprised to be randomly selected to apply for one drafting a #PeoplesPlanforNature, launched yesterday. RSPB Her fascinating write up from the inside: theguardian.com/environment/20…

Spirit for the day

Shapes and colours: fox moth caterpillar just emerged from hibernation on the moor and fallen poplar catkins in Porlock

Our latest newsletter - featuring poetry by Ilaria Boffa, the The Society of Authors #TreeToMe initiative with 10 questions to ask publishers about their eco-footprint, Ruth Padel on The Verb and a photo by Exmoormare of the youngest Hazel on Exmoor hazelpress.substack.com/p/hazel-press-…

Dorset nightjars and more in my review of Sounds Wild and Broken by David George Haskell in this week's The TLS

'Online music stores offer hundreds of contemporary recordings of humpback whale 'music' for our relaxation. All of them, Haskell notes, have been edited to 'omit the blare and cacophony of the lived experience of real whales'.' (Sara Hudston) the-tls.co.uk/articles/sound…

Country diary: A healthy population of rare caterpillars and a republican goldcrest. Plus mention of Butterfly Conservation 🦋 work on Exmoor theguardian.com/environment/20…

Tens of thousands of foxgloves the colour of the earth are flowering in Doverhay Wood, where a conifer plantation was cleared. It already looks so different from when I wrote about it in November last year theguardian.com/environment/20…

Lime blossom. And now, rain

What made us in the woods so late? While Katrina Naomi channeled her inner Dorothy Wordsworth, I had a go at summoning Coleridge in ‘Christabel’ mode

Best view: Ley Hill on Exmoor unfolding between a horse’s ears

A REVIEW. A REAL REVIEW. Thanks, Sara Hudston and The TLS. the-tls.co.uk/articles/the-j…

'Experiencing the living world alongside his children brings him into contact with an unsophisticated, more instinctual approach, one that seldom starts with “ooh, that’s lovely”, but often begins with “whoa, that’s gross”.' (Sara Hudston) the-tls.co.uk/articles/the-j…

The stillness and rhythm of dancing oaks #exmoor

Sara Hudston (Sara Hudston) on how horses have shaped the English countryside the-tls.co.uk/articles/the-b…

Three new titles out now from Hazel Press: poems by jane lovell and Maria Isakova Bennett, plus a Hazel Press Catkin by Anna de Waal. Available to order from the Hazel website hazelpress.co.uk/bookshop/