The strapline of Hinterlands is ‘Magazine for Rural Realities’, and the plural is important. Reporting from villages, fields and woodland across Europe, it presents many different versions of life in the countryside, all of them challenging the familiar stereotype of green rolling hills and simple folk. Instead, each issue begins with a themed colour, using it to tell unexpected stories about the people and places outside our towns and cities.
In this issue:
- The fascist garden – Nazi ideas and horticultural ideologies
- The Georgian billionaire who ransacked ancient landscapes to build an arboretum of centuries-old trees
- How the green revolution is wrecking the Serbian countryside, as miners race to extract the lithium needed for electric car batteries
- The traditional process of turning plants into clothes
- And taking a closer look at Britain’s Green Belt land
