Anna Oakland’s Fenland diary - An extract from the winner of the Keith Tomlinson Writer’s Award 2008
	KEITH TOMLINSON was a keen smallholder with a quirky pen who wrote regularly for "Smallholder".

	Showing off really good food - Michael Wale visits two shows in London promoting natural and organic food
	IT is all good news for growers. London now has two big shows to show off what Britain's growers are growing, and more importantly what they want to sell, and where they would really like to sell it.

	Day out with a commentator - A look at a typical day for Philip Ghazala commentating at the Great Yorkshire Show
	PHILIP Ghazala is a busy man. As well as being the business brains behind the Verm-X health care range, he is also a TV presenter, host and event commentator.

	When the oil runs out - Oil expert Richard Heinberg discusses his fears for our food supply with Michael Wale
	RICHARD Heinberg is an expert on world oil, its sources and use, which makes him even more worried about what he thinks is about to happen not only to oil, but more importantly, our food supply.

	Insurance boss’s pride and joy
	SINCE the age of 14, when he kept his first bantams, to his present job as head of the rural insurer NFU Mutual, Ian Geden still finds time to keep poultry.

Corpse paths and Lyke Wakes - Maureen James explores some strange customs

ROBERT Staff, who formerly kept the Maid's Head Inn at Stalham Norfolk, opposite the churchHe and two other menwatched the church porch, opposite to the house, on St Mark's Eve The above passage, recorded in 1849, is one of many accounts of a macabre ritual carried out by brave parishioners who wished to gain knowledge of who would die or be married in the next twelve months. In this article I would like to explain more about this practice; consider the significance of the church porch and the lych gate and attitudes to the dead in the past; and finally look at a modern homage to death customs in the form of the Lyke Wake Walk.