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  • Vets warn of festive hazards for pets

    Vets are urging pet owners and smallholders to make sure their festive homes are safe for animals during the Christmas season by warning of a number of unknown hazards and poisons in and around the home. The British Veterinary Association

  • Smallholders strawberries in spring

    ONE of the joys of ‘growing your own’ is eating seasonally, and nowhere more than for soft fruit. The flavour of a perfectly ripe strawberry or tart gooseberry, freshly picked at just the right time, is incomparable to anything shop bought, and certainly

  • Diary of an inner city smallholder

    THE big discussion among local Government allotment officials when they met at Newham was the price that should be charged. Kingston has already shocked the locals by suggesting over £60 a year, when the previous average for the 33 London boroughs

  • Vets warn of festive hazards for pets

    Vets are urging pet owners and smallholders to make sure their festive homes are safe for animals during the Christmas season by warning of a number of unknown hazards and poisons in and around the home. The British Veterinary Association’s charity

  • Smallholders grown their own wild harvest

    RECENTLY there has been a massive revival in ‘grow your own’ following escalating fears over food security, planet sustainability and a mistrust in mass-produced processed products. Growing your own can be a precarious occupation as many of the