| OPINION |
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| A Duchy Subject |
| Mike Hannis recalls a proposal to reclaim royal land, not just rewild it. |
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| Pie in the Sky |
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| NEWS IN BRIEF |
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| Indian Farmers; Whisky for Visas; Gene Editing; Hate Week; Scottish Land Tax; Save Britain’s Railway Bridges |
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| TECHNOLOGY |
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| The Moonshot for Clean Meat. |
| Joe Fassler shines a light on claims for laboratory-grown protein. |
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| The Soil Association Self Disrupts. |
| They’ve lost the plot, say Pat Thomas and Lawrence Woodward. |
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| New Toys for the Boys. |
| Will robotics and organics ever be compatible? asks Simon Fairlie. |
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| A Brief History of Agriculture. |
| How labour-saving machinery destroys the labourers. |
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| “NATURAL CAPITAL”: WHO PROFITS? |
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| Equality in a Zero Carbon Countryside. |
| Our 2016 Rural Manifesto, revised and updated. |
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| The New Green Lairds. |
| Scotland’s latest landlords are copying old tricks, as Calum Macleod reveals. |
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| Northwoods. |
| A piecemeal project for rewilding Scotland. |
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| Community Forest Exchange. |
| Kilfinan and Amazonia have much in common, observes Calum Macleod. |
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| The Unwilding of Birkbeck Common. |
| Bill Lloyd reports on a recent tragedy of Cumbrian common land. |
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| Rewilding the World. |
| The Global North’s enthusiasm for rewilding is rebuffed by the Global South. |
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| Pastoral Care. |
| Animal herders are doing a vital job worldwide, as Ella Houzer and Ian Scoones explain. |
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| The Invention of Wilderness. |
| Lessons from the plight of the Maasai in 1994, noted by George Monbiot. |
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| FOOD AND FARMING |
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| Instagram Farmers. |
| Camilla Ker looks into ways for land workers to virtually diversify. |
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| Extinction Foods. |
| Excerpts from Dan Saladino’s new book, with a review by Jules Pretty. |
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| Is there Life after Fert? |
| Part 4 of Simon Fairlie’s investigation into possibilities for a fossil-fuel-free future. |
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| NOISE |
| Section editor: Gill Barron |
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| Silence of the Land. |
| Is escalating road noise making the countryside uninhabitable? |
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| Quiet Please! |
| A plea for better sound insulation for housing. |
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| Dropping a Clanger. |
| Learning to live with traditional and modern sources of earache. |
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| HISTORY |
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| Molesworth. |
| 1984’s men-friendly alternative to Greenham Common is chronicled by Chris Dixon. |
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| In Praise of the 1950s. |
| A chapter from Simon Fairlie’s new book describes some sensible habits. |
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| The Culloden Conundrum. |
| Should past events be allowed to sterilise land for ever, asks Gill Barron. |
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| ACCESS TO LAND |
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| How to Save Land from Developers. |
| Jennie Sansom on Frome’s community land purchase. |
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| Liverpool Strikes a New Note. |
| Radical proposals from the city’s groundbreaking Land Commission. |
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| Chapter 7. |
| Recent planning cases involving farm dwellings, tiny homes, caravans and more. |
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| BOOKS |
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| The Permanent Yurt; How to Live in the Country; School Farms. |
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| Going to Seed. |
| Countercultural veteran Tony Wrench reviews Simon Fairlie’s new memoir. |
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