Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ‘The degree programme at the Newark School of Violin Making will not be running this year, apparently because there were not ...

The unusual weather has sped up lawn care schedules. "Things are happening three weeks earlier than most years," said Kim Kosberg, co-owner of The Weed Man in Midland with Mark Kosberg. Because of an ...

Some of Chris Dodson’s earliest memories are of driving across East Anglia at dawn to buy bundles of Norfolk reed. Dodson, as ...

Lawn care is important for any homeowner. And most people don’t realize that it’s beneficial to thatch their lawn to keep their grass fresh. However, a thatching rake is different from other types of ...

A master thatcher said it was important to "safeguard" the industry or otherwise villages risked "losing character". Poor harvests of long straw over the last two years, aging machinery and shortages ...

The Berkshire village of Inkpen where, on a sunny autumn afternoon, two English craftsmen are rethatching an ancient barn. There have been straw roofs in England ever since our ancestors came out of ...

A new school in Ireland is training up a fresh generation of thatchers in a bid to save the country’s disappearing thatched roofs, an iconic feature of the Irish landscape. In a hall in Portnoo, ...