# From little acorns … to his 1,000th article for the Guardian country diary

- Source: Guardian World
- Published: 2026-10-17T12:00:30+00:00
- Category: World
- Original: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/17/1000-articles-for-the-guardian-country-diary-mark-cocker
- Canonical: https://groundlevelnews.com/story/from-little-acorns-to-his-1-000th-article-for-the-guardian-country-dia-f90fbb/

As Mark Cocker approaches a landmark for the world’s oldest column in an English-language newspaper, he is still inspired by powerful encounters with nature In the autumn of 1987, Mark Cocker sat in a field near Norwich and watched a jay burying acorns for the long winter ahead. He described the scene in his first country diary for the Guardian. Thirty-nine years on, some of those jay-planted acor

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