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Living on One Acre or Less: How to Produce All the Fruit, Veg, Meat, Fish and Eggs Your Family Needs by Sally Morgan
You can grow all the fruit and vegetables your family needs, raise animals for meat and eggs, keep fish and bees, and even produce firewood on a plot of land of just one acre or…
Something simple
Sometimes the simple things are best. Today, we couldn't decide what to have for lunch. It certainly wasn't going to be sausages (for reasons Dan will explain in due course). Since…
Viable Self-Sufficiency by Tim and Dot Tyne
Written by lifelong smallholders, Tim and Dot Tyne, this thorough reference manual covers all aspects of self-sufficiency for a new century, bringing the subject completely up to…
Win a copy of The Silly Seasons DVD
You'll join Mr Holloway for a year of fun in the kitchen garden with this great The Silly Seasons DVD. Mr Holloway must be the silliest gardener in history! In four…
Blackberries and black bunnies
There's not much better in this life than getting something for nothing, and at this time of year that something is brambles, or wild blackberries. Yesterday morning while walking…
Orchard planning 2: the expert
Dan and I met with local orchard expert, Andrew Lear, today www.appletreeman.co.uk to discuss our plans for an orchard. We've already done a fair bit of research and have drafted a…
Harvesting
We lifted the garlic, onions and shallots today. The garlic was planted late but has done well; the onions are poor - "something" got under the netting and took…
Mainly more kitten spam
W/e Sunday 3rd March How did it get to be March? We’ve had some nice weather this week. It’s been mainly kittens, as they settle in. Riley’s still scooty, so…
Thaw
We're getting a bit of a thaw now, which is great, and I'm loath to complain. But it's been freezing overnight and where the snow is hardpacked and icy, it's absolutely treacherous…
Mucking out the byre
Last October, we bought our two Shetland heifers. So that we could get them used to us and to a halter, we kept them in the little byre. It's the old cow shed, with stalls…