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Grand Designs Live (photo: Aaron Scott Richards)

Trees help to provide essential shade in summer and valuable shelter from the wind, plus they slow water and reduce storm water run-off (photo: Kim Stoddart)

Seed saving can help to create plants that are perfectly adapted to the growing conditions where you live (photo: Kim Stoddart)

Charles planting out winter salads and herbs in September (photo: Charles Dowding)

Selecting ewe lambs to keep is one of the most pleasurable tasks a smallholder can undertake (photo: Tim Tyne)

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Wonders of the Hebridean breed of sheep

Wednesday, July 3, 2019

Beyond basic husbandry requirements, Hebrideans are resilient and self-sufficient sheep (photo: Darren Cassie)

An old breed for new times

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Breeders' Directory

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Win WIN tickets to Grand Designs Live at Birmingham's NEC

Thursday, September 12, 2019

Country Smallholding has teamed up with Grand Designs Live to give you the chance to win a pair of tickets, worth up to £34, to the UK's leading contemporary home show - Grand Designs Live

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The Climate Change Garden book on the importance of trees

Thursday, August 29, 2019

In the second of three extracts from her new book, The Climate Change Garden, co-written with Sally Morgan, Country Smallholding's gardening correspondent Kim Stoddart explains how important trees are for Britain's more extreme weather-laden future

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Tips for seed-saving on your smallholding

Thursday, August 29, 2019 Kim Stoddart

Home seed saving is oh so satisfying, says Kim Stoddart, who explains the collection process, as well as why ladybirds are her friends

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Organic growing on smallholdings: Eleventh hour sowings

Friday, August 23, 2019

Time is running out for outdoor sowings to crop in autumn/winter, but Charles Dowding has some advice on September plantings, as well as a word of warning on apparent weedkiller poisonings

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Sheep husbandry: Get the best from your flock

Friday, August 23, 2019

Autumn is the time for the selection of replacement breeding stock. Tim Tyne offers advice on picking out the cream of your new crop of lambs, or looking at alternatives to rejuvenate the flock

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Win WIN tickets to Grand Designs Live at Birmingham's NEC

Thursday, September 12, 2019

Country Smallholding has teamed up with Grand Designs Live to give you the chance to win a pair of tickets, worth up to £34, to the UK's leading contemporary home show - Grand Designs Live

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