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Getting ready for the RWAS Smallholder and Garden Festival 2011
Posted on 1:30pm Tuesday 5th April 2011
Last month I wrote about the proposal to sell off England’s forests and eaders’ will know by now that the Coalition has dropped these proposals – for the moment. Two main
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March the first month of the show season
Posted on 8:29pm Tuesday 8th March 2011
March is the month when the show scene up and down the country starts to get going until, by mid summer, the agricultural, country, and vintage shows are in full swing until October. Compiling the extensive Smallholder Show Diary is always exciting for me as I’ve been to so many of the events that we list that I can picture them as I type and smell that evocative summer scent of crushed grass.
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Our New Blog
Posted on 5:11pm Wednesday 23rd February 2011
Follow our trials and tribulations during 2011 as the Feltwell family (Alex, Lara and their 5 children (plus a 6th on the way)) from North Lincolnshire begin their quest to become self-sufficient. With Milk Sheep arriving in March, 2011 is due to be an hard but exciting year.
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On my smallholding - New Year - New Year Resolutions!
Posted on 6:10pm Tuesday 4th January 2011
New Year, new resolutions. I always make some but by the end of the year I can’t always remember what they were! Mostly they centre around organising my time better, spending more time with the ponies and keeping records, all of which, to an extent, I do manage to achieve. Well not perhaps the spending time with the ponies. This year I really do resolve to do this as I have a two year old, er, make that a three year old, who needs some serious work if she is to be the brilliant driving Exmoor that I envisage
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The dark days of December
Posted on 11:10am Friday 3rd December 2010
It’s that time of the year when the days are too short to get anything done! At the worst there is about six or so hours of daylight which means looking after animals seems to become the main function of the day. It’s even harder if you are working full time away from home as it’s going to be dark when you leave and dark when you return and only those who have coped with livestock on this basis know how frustrating this can be.
Liz Wright »
On my smallholding in November
Posted on 8:39am Tuesday 9th November 2010
Although it’s happened to me for many years, I still find the shock of the clocks going back quite significant.
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