The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: supplies for smallholders on September 13, 2011, 04:13:54 pm
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Hi,
Just trying to get a feel of what magazines people read, as we are running a series of competitions and want to place them in the right place - first one is in Novembers Smallholder.
So do you read:
Smallholder
Farmers Weekly
Farmers Guardian
etc etc
Thanks
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Smallholder, Country Smallholder, Scottish Farmer, Scottish Field.
Hello and OK if I'm at the dentist or the doctor.
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Grow your own
Gardeners world
Garden Organic
British Medical Journal
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Smallholding
Practical Pigs
Home Farmer
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Country Smallholding
Farmers' Guardian
Countryside Magazine
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home farmer
practical poultry
your chickens
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The Week
Osteopathy Today
The Osteopath
No prizes for guessing what I am!
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Practical Poultry, Scottish Farmer, Smallholder, Country Smallholder not all the time just when I fancy. When you get to my age you find that a fare few articles or stories are just revamps of old ones or is that just me.
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Given up on journals - once you have had them for a while, yet another new series on "getting started in...." is just not worth the money...
Just read on here and a couple of other places, get the odd book from the library or from abebooks if recommended.
Sorry not much help...
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We get practical pigs free with BPA membership. Just as well as I wouldn't buy it. Used to buy one or other of the smallholding mags but quickly realised that every issue is the bloody same. Main gripe is that most of the content is thinly veiled advertising, and the rest is actually advertising. Practical pigs is a bit of a joke really the editor has been the editor longer than he's been a pig keeper but still writes guides to various breeds and at least half the articles. The rest is just more boring advertising. Rant over.
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Couldn't agree more with Hughsey and Anke. I used to get Smallholder mag and Practical Poultry but it got a bit samey after a while. Grow Your Own is going the same way - too many pictures of wistful looking girls with their head to one side holding a handful of fruit in a twee little basket........
TAS is good enough for me
Couldn't we have a competition on here SfS?
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I used to have Smallholder and Country smallholder, but they got so expensive, and was the same old stuff, so stopped having them. Have Grow your own in the summer .....[.like the free seeds :) Buy the Farmers Guardian, but thats a lot of money nowadays. Or maybe I am just tght!!
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Home farmer and permaculture are my favourites just now. Sometime i get practical poultry or the smallholder or country smallholder.
If i am looking to buy something though my first stop is ebay - not sure if that helps? The things i buy on the internet are usually things like medication or anti pest sort of products or feeding equipment or electric fencing stuff etc
:farmer:
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Small holder, scottish farmer and every now and then your horse and horse and rider. I borrow books from library too. This months small holder I was disappointed read it quickly last few have took me about a week but i enjoyed reading it. Would like more recipes in it. poultry section this time very disappointed. Thinking about it not alot mentioned regarding sheep or cows but we have only been getting it lately last 3 or 4 months. Would like more recipes for sausages how to smoke bacon etc even whats in season and recipes for making things in season even readers recipes would be nice. i do like the pig section we have just got pigs and will be taking our old spot to slaughter soon hence the sausage bacon recipes not decided what cuts we are getting
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Would like more recipes in it. poultry section this time very disappointed. Thinking about it not alot mentioned regarding sheep or cows but we have only been getting it lately last 3 or 4 months. Would like more recipes for sausages how to smoke bacon etc even whats in season and recipes for making things in season even readers recipes would be nice. i do like the pig section we have just got pigs and will be taking our old spot to slaughter soon hence the sausage bacon recipes not decided what cuts we are getting
Some articles and recipes on TAS and more to come if you look through the main site.
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Country Smallholding if there's something which might be interesting in it, Scottish Farmer ditto. Kitchen Garden usually.
I hate how their covers have become hyper glossy so you can't stack them without the lot slithering all over the place - even Organic Gardening went that way (it then became Organic Garden and Home or somesuch - is it still on the go?)
I don't like Smallholder which seems to cover a lot of subjects but very superficially ie no helpful content.
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We read the following and they're all on gift subscriptions so i don't pay for any of them, Farmers' weekly, Woman & Home, Country Living. We also get practical pigs free from the BPA and the quarterley GOS magazine Spot Press.
From time to time i pick up country smallholding or smallholder and Country Kitchen if theres something in of interest used to have them on sub too but they just got very samey as already mentioned by others.
If i'm in need of indulgence i might get a Hello or Glamour with a bar of chocolate!! ;D
Mandy :pig:
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I don't have much time, so OH's newspaper weekend mags are plenty (Guardian and Observer) and I honestly do only read the gardening and cooking pages! They are brilliant I must say, Alys Fowler and Nigel Slater, HF-W, why buy another mag? :&>
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TAS is good enough for me
Couldn't we have a competition on here SfS?
Thats up to you to agree with Dan - I dont want to be seen as being too blatantly commercial, as the way we normally run competitions is:
1) Simple Question about a product (Multi-Choice)
2) Find answer on our site (the trap to get you to buy !!!)
3) Send in answers (usually to magazine to keep it un-biased)
4) Winner Drawn and gets prize
5) We get the contact details of all entrants and offer them a consolation discount of their next order and they get added to our mailing list (can opt out)
So if you want a competition, Im up for it, ask Dan and decide if you want it Pig / Sheep / Cattle / Poultry Based.
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Thanks SfS.
I have "reported you to the moderator" but only to ask Dan what he thinks as to the feasibility of a TAS competition not for slapped wrist.....
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I'm always up for competitions where you can win something - as long as you don't sell my details on SfS ;D :&>
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We have a very strict policy regarding personal details, and never sell or disclose them see here for our full policy: https://www.suppliesforsmallholders.co.uk/privacy.php (https://www.suppliesforsmallholders.co.uk/privacy.php)
Furthermore:
Our site is run entirely on an SSL certificate (unlike some others who dont even use SSL) this means anything you do on our site is encrypted between you and our server.
And to comply with Payment Card Industry requirements (PCI) our site undergoes quartly independant PCI Scans by a company called Security Metrics to test for vulnerabilities - we always pass these!
And our payment systems are hosted off-site by either Barclays Bank or Paypal depending on your choice of payment methods, so we Never store card details.
And I personally spend many hours testing the site security and upgrading the software used to ensure we are as "Hacker Proof" as we can possibly be.
So as you can see, we take security seriously.
Thanks
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:bouquet: good to know!
better start working on the quiz! Poultry based for me, don't have any other animals than the birdies and the cat ;D
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We buy Farmer's Guardian and Classic Boat Magazine.
Get complimentary copies of Home Farmer and Country Smallholding (OH writes for one and I write for the other)
Also get the National Sheep Association mag as part of membership and ditto for BASC (British Association for Shooting and Conservation).
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Yes - how about "name that chicken" ....... Based on the old "Name that tune" format.
You start with a photo of a single wing feather (5 points), then a tail feather (four points), then a photo of a body part (say - beak or claw - 3 points), then a slightly wider angle photo ( say - leg or head - 2 points) and finally for one point - the whole chicken
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Suzie,
I have to ask - what have you been drinking ??!!?? :bunny:
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I'm at a Health Protection conference ::)
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Yes - how about "name that chicken" ....... Based on the old "Name that tune" format.
You start with a photo of a single wing feather (5 points), then a tail feather (four points), then a photo of a body part (say - beak or claw - 3 points), then a slightly wider angle photo ( say - leg or head - 2 points) and finally for one point - the whole chicken
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Suzie,
I have to ask - what have you been drinking ??!!?? :bunny:
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I'm at a Health Protection conference ::)
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Thanks you two (and the Health Protection conference) I am now setting off to bed with a big smile still on my face and my blood flowing well through my cheeks. :wave:
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Well............
Over 200 Views and only a handful of replies - does Nobody read anything ??
Looks like I may have to run a competition in Osteopath today then.....
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Hey - what about the BMJ??!! ;D ;D ;D
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I was one of the readers but as I usually only read Simply Knitting I didn't respond.
Sally
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Smallholder Country smallholder Farmers weekly and Farmers guardian country living when i want to appear posh cause i can't afford anything in it
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lol have copied some recipes and i'm going to try them even bidded on a few kenwood chefs on ebay been outbid too :'( going to do home brew soon looking for recipes easy ones hoping my local library has some good one. hubby in his youth made wine with his friends have to get the kits out of loft scaredy cat is afraid of going into our loft we had a wasp byke council came and sprayed it a few months ago need my rugs for ponies out too. its a great site if i get time will put some recipes on myself but i'm a make recipes up never measure things i do a great biscuit recipe will do it properly measure things out. made cauliflower n cheese soup last nite similar to your celeric soup i do a mean mushroom as well as italian bean soup along with my lentil n ham soup :wave:
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Somehow I didn't think the Law Society Gazette and the odd Farmers Weekly plus Jacob Journal would set any pulses racing. :(
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....and the odd Farmers Weekly
Is That for odd Farmers only or can normal farmers read it as well ?? :bunny:
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I can't read ;D
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Sorry only kidding, I can understand you needing to target your advertising especially in this current economic climate. I think magazines are being read less and less as well as books due to the increasing popularity of online sites and kindle type thingys etc.
I read Peoples Friend and Yours most weeks - for the short stories mainly, but they are cheaper too. I have been known to splurge my pension on a Gardening World, Craft, or Your Home on the odd occasion.
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Used to subscribe to Country Smallholding but found a lot of stuff in it I didn't read so cancelled it. My favourite article ever was the one this year by Tim Tyne with a picture by picture account of a normal lambing process.
My weakness is Period Living (my kitchen was featured in it once so I love to compare!). :)