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  • A blooming brilliant smallholding business

    Helen Babbs meets an artisan florist and flower farmer Like most smallholders, Georgie Newbery starts her day by checking her stock. However, these aren’t sheep or hens or even vegetables, but fresh-cut flowers. “I started flower farming because

  • Keeping guinea pigs

    Keeping guinea pigs. By Heidi M. Sands. As a young child I was taken to see and choose my first guinea pig. The lady who kept them did so in large adapted poultry cabins. To my young eyes, there seemed to be millions of guinea pigs in each cabin

  • Tighter restrictions on oak tree imports to come into force

    Land owners are being urged to remain vigilant after the Plant Health Service intercepted findings of Oak Processionary Moth (OPM) caterpillars on trees recently imported from the Netherlands, and are being asked to urgently check recently planted

  • Tighter restrictions on oak tree imports to come into force

    Land owners are being urged to remain vigilant after the Plant Health Service intercepted findings of Oak Processionary Moth (OPM) caterpillars on trees recently imported from the Netherlands, and are being asked to urgently check recently planted