English eccentrics are a joyous breed, but hard to find. What fun, then, to discover a corner of Kent that is absolutely seething with nutters. One of them, Alexander Hunt, is not only a ...

The wettest summer for 250 years, which brought misery for most of Britain's farmers, has been perfect for growing cobnuts. Peter Webb, Britain's only registered organic cobnut grower, runs his ...

You know autumn has well and truly arrived when baskets of cobnuts appear in the shops and friends who have trees in their garden are offering you their excess. My friend Jacquie Pearce-Gervis ...