Recently in the grounds of the Chateau de Chenonceau I came across a colony of large bolete mushrooms in a little grove of mature oak tree...

Every weekday for seven weeks I am catching a taxi-ambulance from Preuilly to Chambray les Tours for my radiotherapy treatment. It's abo...

Early one morning recently I was making my way on foot through Amboise and encountered a magnificent Leopard Slug Limax maximus (Fr. Limace...

Every year we post photos of a carpet of cyclamens photographed somewhere in the Touraine Loire Valley to usher in the autumn. This year the...

If you have a pear tree that delivers a multitude of rather small pears, as we used to have, this is a useful recipe that I developed to use...

As any entomologist and many naturalists know, Jean-Henri Fabre was an extraordinary man. He worked as a teacher in the south of France in t...