Things with “French” in the title are usually fancy, right? Poodles, perfume, pastries. But a French drain is nothing more than a ditch in sloped ground, inset with a perforated drain pipe under a ...

This year’s record-breakingly wet winter and spring has prompted one Cambridgeshire farm to fall back on its own workshop skills to sort out drainage problems in some of its fields. Steve Raven farms ...