The Edible Garden Show has been voted Most Popular Garden Event of the Year ahead of established fixtures such as The RHS Chelsea Flower Show and Gardeners World Live. More than 15,800 members of the public voted in the annual Horticultural Channel Awards and selected our launch show as the UK’s most popular gardening event. [...]
“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 [...]
Share your experiences and knowledge with visitors to the Smallholding Times website. Smallholding Times is actively looking for article writers who can provide useful, relevant and informative content for the Smallholding Times website for the benefit of all visitors and subscribers, as well as being beneficial to the article writers themselves. Benefits of writing for [...]
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 [...]
THE NATURAL BEEKEEEPING TRUST Book yourself a place on our Course this Sunday Last minute places have become available for our course “Honeybees and their Care: The Marvel of Colony Life” at the Bee Classroom in Ashurstwood this Sunday 16th October. We will be looking in detail at questions such as: What do bee colonies [...]
THE NATURAL BEEKEEEPING TRUST Come and Join us for a Fun Workday Join us at the Bee Sanctuary at Plaw Hatch Farm on Saturday 15th October to help to beautify the Bee Sanctuary where we now have 5 hives. We will be painting and cleaning hives and weeding the bee-friendly plant areas. Come along at anytime [...]
You may be an existing smallholder, or someone that’s thinking about starting a smallholding. There are lots of different elements to running a smallholding, and depending on what it is that you want to do with your smallholding, you need to get yourself educated in that particular field. Many of the smallholding courses available are [...]
Is a smallholding way of life really for you? If you’ve had a bit of a ‘Tom & Barbara’ moment and have decided that getting some chucks in, and growing yoiur own fruit and veg is the lifestyle you’ve been yearning for, then beware. Being self-sufficient, or working towards self-sufficiency isn’t as easy as you [...]
