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The Yahoo Smallholding Group is open to all who have an interest in smallholding, niche farming, organics, small-scale farming, niche markets, permaculture,...
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Oct 1, 2008 4:22 pm
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From the Smallholders' Newsletter No. 264: Subject: Bees, pesticides and sugar beet I recently circulated a warning about possible Imidacloprid contamination...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7685643.stm the soil's knackered. Who knew?! Honestly. Jackie -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community...
Makes me feel sort of proud Jackie that I'm no longer on the mains Sewage System! Living out in the sticks we're back on the old organic bucket system, albeit...
Tut, we've all known this for years haven't we, surely they didn't need to commission a study to confirm this again? <sigh>! I'd like to know who's having...
The Yahoo Smallholding Group is open to all who have an interest in smallholding, niche farming, organics, small-scale farming, niche markets, permaculture,...
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Nov 1, 2008 3:58 pm
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Hi I've been offered some land by a local farmer, but he wants me to tell him how much it is worth to me and to get back to him!!! I've no idea - help! There...
For chicken's bedding, I thought shavings might be better, but I've noticed them eating it every now and again - ewww! I thought it might be better than straw...
...fridge or on the side. Talk about controversial, caused a bit of a stir recently discussing this. Would be interested with what you do. Karen x [Non-text...
We pay £100 per acre per year, and when our landlords recetnly wanted to put that up, the TFA said it was quite high enough already - between agricultural...
... days old, far too popular and no room in the fridge. shops keep them up to 5 weeks just on the shelf so I wouldn't worry ones for sale are in the fridge,...
One way and another we have quite a bit to do with Trading Standards, so we keep ours in the fridge. Friends on the other hand have an 'Honesty Box' and keep...
Never had this problem Karen, although we kept hundred of birds, our of course were all Purebreeds used mostly for hatching. We never sold the eggs as such,...
Karen you ask: I'd be grateful if you could let me know of any pitfalls to avoid when renting land, what my responsibilities will be, whether I will be able to...
You wouldn't get it for £5k round here. More like £25k if it has any equestrian potential, and Karen's in Hampshire, I think, prime horse country. Also, why...
There was an experiment done (I think it's on Mother Earth News, if you can be bothered to look for it) about lots of different methods of preserving eggs,...
darn it i'm good! http://www.motherearthnews.com/Sustainable-Farming/1977-11-01/Can-You-Really-Store-Fresh-Eggs-a-Year-or-More-Without-Refrigeration.aspx ...
Fridge, although once the eggs have been refrigerated they must continue to be kept in the fridge as the protective cuticle layer is destroyed by low...
I use shavings, I find they have a lot of advantages over straw. In the hen-house, they last a lot longer and keep eggs cleaner, as shavings are a lot more...
I'd have to agree with you on that one Jackie... Cheers John... ... any ... horse ... if he ... being ... payments, ... pasture, ... acre, or ... he's ... of...
Rather foolishly I'm in digest mode on both of the groups and I find it incredibly difficult to navigate (I know, what a twit) - briefly I just wanted to say...
The Yahoo Smallholding Group is open to all who have an interest in smallholding, niche farming, organics, small-scale farming, niche markets, permaculture,...
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Dec 1, 2008 4:41 pm
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/3061659/Black-farmer-questioned-by-police-th ree-times-in-a-week-for-stealing-food.html Can there really only be two black...
Karen there's no way of connecting to that link for me, I've tried all roads for it! I did spot one Coloured Farmer on the John Craven show on the BBC a few...
*the* black farmer, Wilfred Emmanuel Jones, farms in Devon and also has a home in Wiltshire, where he's the Tory candidate for Chippenham. I think he did used...
... I'm not quite sure of the slant of their piece. Are they suggesting that ethnic minorities have no culture of farming/smallholding? (which is rather...
