Issue 47 The Long Field Autumn 2026
Reportage · 24 min read

The last orchard on the estuary

Four hundred acres of Kentish apple trees were cleared in a decade. One family kept theirs, and in doing so kept something else entirely — a way of working the land that the market had already written off.

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Craft

The last man making cricket bats by hand in Suffolk

Food

Why the British apple almost disappeared

Essay

On rewilding, and the argument nobody is having

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