Building a better fruit cage

Fiona and Hugh Osborne extensively use fruit and vegetable cages to protect valuable crops.

Excitement builds for 2023 Blacknose Beauties National Show & Sale

The immensely popular Blacknose Beauties National Show & Sale returns once again to H&H Borderway Mart, Carlisle on Friday 18th and Saturday 19th August.

Transporting livestock thoughts on trailers

John Sones gives top towing tips and looks at the legalities

Beat the heat!

Andrew Fothergill, National Poultry Advisor at Farmgate Feeds gives his advice on keeping your hens comfortable in the warmer months.

Cost of Living Crisis: How we can grow back

Andrew Oldham shows how to take back some control of your food

From Fleece to Floor

Jack Smellie explains the process of turning newly shorn fleece into fibre for rug making

Can My Goat Dairy Be Eco-Friendly?

Tamsin Cooper finds greener ways to manage productive goats

Alpacas-Identification and Record keeping

Joy Whitehead explores what you must do, what you might do and what you should do!

Happiness in herbs Top Ten to grow

Kim Stoddart outlines her pick of the most flavour some, resilient best for your smallholding biodiversity-boosting, vegetable garden....

Everything's Coming Up Rhubarb

Andrew Oldham praises a very British practical crop, easy to grow but so diverse in uses and recipes

Time to talk turkey again

Liz Fairbrother says with summer upon us we need now to think of the festive season and plan for turkeys

Get cracking with eggs.

Paul Donovan investigates the biology of an egg which is a marvel of nature

Keeping the flag flying for pure breeds of poultry

Grant Brereton gets breeders and owners together and considers eBay for hatching eggs

Vet advice from an experienced poultry vet

The birds are out but Avian Flu is still here - how to help your hens be safe

Growing Up & Independence

Fiona & Hugh Osborne steer you through how broody hens raise chicks for you until they become independent young birds

Runner ducks are all the rage - but they aren't the ideal garden duck

Chris Ashton looks into their needs and natural behaviour

Coastline and castles in Wales's Pembrokeshire National Park

Welcome to our regular column all about the best places to buy a country smallholding

Preserving food through dehydration

Fiona and Hugh Osborne preserve fruit, vegetables, spices and even meat by drying, an ancient technique with increasing modern relevance

Why you should consider abortion vaccination for your sheep

Kath Dun, Galedin Vets (Kelso) explains how planning now prevents problems later

RBST Watchlist 2023: Concern Deepens For UK's Native Pig Breeds

But rare poultry breeds also impacted by recent events

On Guard The dilemmas of grazing in Orchards

Having your own orchard is wonderful, the beautiful blossom, tending to your trees and then fresh home grown fruit, What could be better? But as someone who advises on orchards many owners or prospective planters of orchards are surprised when one of my first questions I ask is “What are you going to do with the grass?”

Starting with alpacasA Beginner's guide to purchasing

Roger Clarke of Amberly Alpacas explains what to expect

Prepare your pigs for the warmer weather

Supporting Farmgate Feeds as Pig Technical & Commercial Advisor, Sam Bradley shares her tips and advice on how to reduce heat stress with pigs and the signs to look out for this summer.

Caring for Elderly Goats

Tamsin Cooper highlights the changes needed to housing and healthcare

The sustainable Shetland cow that combines beauty and usefulness

Helen Babbs meets the small Scottish cow that's perfect for smallholders

Finding our Homestead in the Highlands

Rachel Alvey-Anderson and her family make their dream come true

First locations for The Wildlife Trusts' Atlantic rainforest recovery programme announced

Isle of Man and North Wales are first to benefit from £38million Aviva fund

South West farmers banned from owning animals following two successful APHA prosecutions

Two separate investigations by APHA into animal welfare cases concluded in the sentencing of two farmers in Cornwall and Devon.

How much control do we have of the food we eat?

In the first article of this series, Jack Smellie explored the smallholder relationship with meat: the pride, the sadness and all things in between. This month, she takes a more in-depth look at the ethics of smallholder grown food meat and veg/fruit) and the smallholder relationship with food in general.

The Swiss Army Knife of tool carrying attachments for a Tractor

Introducing the BigToolRack and its inventor