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The Climate Change Garden book on the importance of trees

Thursday, August 29, 2019
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)

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
Seed saving can help to create plants that are perfectly adapted to the growing conditions where you live (photo: 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
Charles planting out winter salads and herbs in September (photo: Charles Dowding)

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

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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Getting started with goats: Buying stock, meat, milking, foot care and more

Friday, August 23, 2019 Lee Connor
It is important not to lose sight of the fact that you need to be able to handle the goats you buy when you get them home (photo: Sue de Carteret/Getty Images)

If you’re taking the plunge and are intending to buy goats there are several things to consider before you part with your money, not least whether you want them for meat, milk or fibre. Lee Connor offers some sage advice

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