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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’ve probably been looking at alpacas in the field down the road or at the local agricultural show and thinking how good it would be to have some; but where to start? You’ve so many questions! A great place to start is to attend an Introduction to Alpaca Breeding course at Livanti Alpacas. You receive [...]
My name is Michelle and I have a dream…… First I think I should tell you a bit about me, you already know my name, I am 38 years old, I weigh 25 stone and I suffer from bouts of often severe depression. Contrary to popular belief being 25 stone does not mean you have [...]
Making a living? If your plans involve young family, you will no doubt hope to make a decent income. It is of course, also possible for one partner to keep on a well paid city career and commute to and fro each week, and if a mortgage is involved it will be almost essential at [...]
Finding the Dream When a surviving family inheriting several hundred hectare decide to sell off the farm, a similar body to DEFRA, known here as SAFER (Societe Amenagement Financement, Environment Rural) have to be notified by the officiating Notaire. (a well respected citizen who is a kind of solicitor, and always handles the legalities [...]
So you want to move to France? Following a wealth of media coverage in recent years, about relocating, downshifting or retiring to France for a ‘better’ way of life, I will be taking a look at the realities, and some of the hurdles involved in finding and setting up a smallholding whether for business [...]
This recipe has been kindly submitted by Bill Mason of Moons Green. If the picture is anything to go by, I’ll be definitely getting the mixing bowl out of the cupboard! OK, we didn’t grow any of this on our Smallholding at Moons Green! But it is a great recipe and one that my friend [...]
This little piggy went to market. This little piggy stayed at home. This little piggy, however, enjoys living with a Lincolnshire family who has recently discovered how easy it is to add livestock to their smallholding. This month we investigate the pros and cons of adding livestock to your kitchen garden to produce your own [...]
Lorraine Turnbull explains how to prepare your own poultry for the table, both as jointed birds and as a complete roast. Having bred pure breed poultry now for quite some time, I always have a surplus of cockerels, which naturally we eat. Actually, our own poultry have become so popular with the family that instead [...]