November 14, 2014
Tim’s tips: Make handling your cows easier – plus more smallholding ideas!
Career smallholder Tim Tyne explains how halter training your cows can really pay dividends. Plus more of Tim’s smallholding tips...
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November 8, 2014
Foods to fight cancer
Judit Keleman is an ecologist with a smallholding in Ireland. She has had two bouts with cancer and offers some dietary tips for other smallholders
October 24, 2014
Working with problem soils
Not surprisingly, gardening experts often have differing views on soil cultivation. While one of our organic gardening writers, Charles Dowding, favours the ‘no-dig’ method, even for heavy and difficult soils, our other writer, Brian Callaghan,…
October 24, 2014
A goat guru
Becky Torrance manages to keep dairy goats, and breeds them to a high standard, without extensive grazing. She talked to Anke Sieker about this, and about her little smallholding in Northumberland
October 24, 2014
From tree to fire
You can save yourself an awful lot of work in handling and processing firewood by learning the most efficient operating systems. Alan Beat has honed them over decades...
October 22, 2014
InFocus: Try the Lowline
Come and see why Wessex Lowlines are the perfect choice for smallholders
October 21, 2014
InFocus: Reliability in breeding alpacas
Advice from Joy Whitehead of Bozedown Alpacas, Oxfordshire
October 20, 2014
Your breeds: Ahead of the game
Terry Beebe talks to inspirational breeder Dave Hackett, who has a passion for Game birds
October 17, 2014
Our ideal sheep
What is the ideal sheep for the smallholder? Sally Morgan, who keeps sheep at her farm in Somerset, offers a suggestion
October 17, 2014
Building a cob oven
A cob oven is a delightful and very useful addition to a smallholding. Debbie Kingsley, who runs courses on making them, shows you how
October 17, 2014
InFocus: Creating more woods
The Woodland Trust is helping smallholders with a scheme to plant more trees
