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I recently had the pleasure of crossing paths with talented watercolour artist, Jackie Hadwin who lives in Torver, Coniston, Cumbria. I fell in love with Jackie’s work instantly. Jackie takes her inspiration from the breath-taking scenery and animals nearby to where she lives and the results are simply captivating. Jackie holds regular Hens & Cockerels Watercolour Workshops at the [...]
“Return to the Country” is an incentive scheme launched by the Croatian real estate company www.inlandcroatia.com offering EU rebates and grants of up to €75,000euros. For example up to €75,000 is available towards the cost of renovating a traditional Croatian farmhouse or cottage with another €2000 for anyone installing solar power or solar heating systems. [...]
We won’t bore you with the why’s and the where-fors, suffice to say New Smallholders has had a facelift and is now a fully functional community-based website for smallholders, new smallholders, wannabe smallholders and anyone seeking a greener, more self-sufficient lifestyle, however small or big that may be. The Members Area is comprehensive. New Smallholders works in [...]
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Whilst this article is nothing to do with smallholdings, I felt the need to share this with as many people as possible. Tuesday this week (11th October 2011) a woman and her young children were travelling along a local country lane at midday. She spotted a car on the roadside and a man of about [...]
Small holding and business with 4 bedrooms, 2 ensuite, 2 with shower and wash basins in the room, lounge, 2 kitchens, separate bathroom and 2 WCs, conservatory overlooking the Pentland Firth, rock stacks and resident seal colony. The business has been established for 30 years, and there is a tearoom which is currently closed but [...]
Cathy is a full-time shepherdess, working alongside husband Darren and his father Brian on their part-time farm in Leicestershire, and also managing the conservation-grazing flocks on the nature reserves for the Wildlife trust in Northamptonshire. The Cassie family keep 14 different sheep breeds, including many rare breeds, a small herd of Murray Grey cattle and [...]
We are an unlikely trio at Moons Green – a stockman, a cook and a designer. Together we hold well structured training courses, specialising in keeping Outdoor Pigs, Free-range Poultry and Market Gardening. Philip Ashton Cobb has been a market gardener and stockman for more than twenty years. He and his wife Trish have a [...]
Tedfold Cottage Farm We are Neil, Michaela and Oliver Giles, a small family run smallholding on the Sussex / Surrey border and near a direct train service from London Victoria. We specialise in and exhibit British Saddleback pigs with an emphasis on the rarer bloodlines. We also have other prick and lop eared breeds kept purely [...]