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  • City farming communities

    f you are a city dweller looking for a chance to get your hands dirty, grow food, tend animals and build better, healthier communities London’s City farms and Community Gardens federation may be just what you need. How did I get interested in community

  • New food group in Cornwall

    A new group has taken on the promotion of food from Cornwall. The Cornwall Food and Farming Group takes over the projects initiated by members of the Cornwall branch of Women's Food and Farming Union which has now closed. The new group is currently

  • Farmers could benefit from wind energy

    Farmers and land owners could earn rents in the region of up to £12,000 a year for hosting a single wind turbine, according to James Humphreys, Director of the Rural Division, at Stratton & Holborow. Between £2,000 and £3,000 per hectare could also be

  • Starting in Smallholding: Back to basics

    I have been growing vegetable since I was very young. Where I grew up and spent first half of my adult life, we had six acres of woodland and the garden started with a small clearing, which was gradually extended. If you wanted to start a new plot it