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April 5, 2012
APRIL 5, 2012: Visitors including gardeners, smallholders, and farmers from across Wales and further afield are expected to flock to this year’s Royal Welsh Spring Festival over the weekend of May 19-20.
March 12, 2012
My chickens have been moulting for about six weeks now and haven’t been laying. Their feathers are quite nice again now. Is there anything I can do to get them to lay again? Liz Foulis
March 12, 2012
Sara Bryant, from Pewsey in Wiltshire, tell us about a very special bantam
February 14, 2012
Should you aim for a stockless or mixed smallholding? Alan Beat takes an objective look at the raising of livestock for meat
February 13, 2012
FEB 13, 2012: The impact of birdsong on our creativity and on our sense of wellbeing is to be explored in a three-year research project at the University of Surrey, supported by the National Trust…
February 13, 2012
FEB 13, 2012: Members of the 250-strong Somerset Smallholders Association will again be at the South Westcountry Game Fair at the Royal Bath & West Showground, Shepton Mallet, on Saturday, March 10 and Sunday, March…
February 13, 2012
FEB, 13, 2012: THE NFU has urged food manufacturers and restaurant chains to avoid imported battery cage eggs. It has published the names of the ‘good egg’ companies that have pledged not to source eggs…
February 13, 2012
FEB 13, 2012: Country Smallholding writer Victoria Roberts will be one of the experts at a special smallholding marquee at the The Edible Garden Show at Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire, from March 16-18.
February 13, 2012
FEB, 13, 2012; The town of Forfar, in the county of Angus, will host the first Scottish Smallholder and Grower Festival on Sunday, September 30, 2012.
January 11, 2012
I have two small (fully-grown) Polish. They are White Crested Black(Pricilla) and a Pure White(Dotty). Although we love their eggs, they are really small. Is there a breed that will be happy to live with…
December 22, 2011
Could you give ex-battery hens a better life?
