May 13, 2015
Traditional choice
Shropshire sheep are traditional, easy-lambing and tree friendly
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Nikki Jarman
May 11, 2015
It’s a chicken cat!
Meet ‘Enry Cooper. He’s a cat who hangs out with the chooks, Janine Marsh explains
May 11, 2015
Helen and her hens
This month: Jeremy Hobson talks to Helen Tait-Wright, an independent dress designer and keen chicken-keeper living and working in France
May 11, 2015
Starting to hatch
Charlotte Popescu talks about how one broody hen starts... then another takes over
May 11, 2015
My first course
Jo Barlow shares the delights of chicken keeping by running a workshop
May 11, 2015
City chickens
Urban chicken keeping is not as unusual as it once was. Birmingham couple Deirdre Figueiredo and Helen Juffs told Debbie Kingsley how chickens enhance their busy lives
May 11, 2015
A breed specialist
‘Poultry Pals’ Andy Cawthray and Grant Brereton continue their visits to leading poultry keepers. This month they talk to a specialist breeder, Geoff Parker, from the Wirral
April 21, 2015
Sharing the knowledge
Liz Shankland meets a family of pig-keepers who started rearing weaners for meat and but now give other smallholders the benefit of their experience
April 21, 2015
Top 10 moments
Some smallholding moments are magical. They linger in the memory, and are a reminder of why we do it. Simon Dawson, who has a smallholding on Exmoor, and is author of several books, reflects on…
April 21, 2015
Making strawbs a cinch
Growers are now able to extend the season for growing strawberries, says Brian Callaghan
April 17, 2015
A very sad loss
A wily fox has taken Ophelia, one of Charlotte Popescu’s favourite chickens. She tells the story….
