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Smallholding courses offered

PUBLISHED: 17:03 18 September 2009 | UPDATED: 08:33 28 March 2014

SEPT 18, 2009: A new range of one-day smallholding courses for complete beginners is being offered in Gloucestershire.

Husband and wife team Simon and Jules Moore, at Mumbleys Farmhouse, near Thornbury, offer: Bees for Beginners, Starting with Hens and Ducks, Sheep For Beginners and Smallholder Taster Days.

Courses include a hands-on session with the animals and a home-cooked lunch.

The thriving smallholding of four small paddocks a wildflower meadow, a productive vegetable patch and a terraced garden. Simon and Jules keep chickens, ducks, bees, sheep and pigs.

MORE:Email: jules@mumbleysfarmhouse.co.uk www.mumbleysfarmhouse.co.uk

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