Home Farmer Magazine April 2017 Vorige editie

Welcome to the feature-packed April issue of Home Farmer, with lots of practical advice, tales of hard-working home farmers made good, news about a great national project from charity, Buglife, to help our bees navigate around the countryside, and some fun thrown in for good measure too. We have articles about extra-tall raised beds and their benefits (both for growing and for backs!), making your own compost mixes for potting and potting on, two great garden DIY projects, and sound advice from allotment guru, John Harrison, on successful allotment makeovers. There are features too about bees, Soay sheep, poultry, keeping a house cow, coltsfoot, chard (both in the garden and in the kitchen), making dandelion and burdock wine, creating gin infusions, and a fascinating insight into how one person managed to turn a hobby into a cottage business. In addition we also have our regular features, including Dot Tyne’s smallholder diary, and Debbie Kingsley’s informative ‘how to be a smallholder’ series. Written by home farmers for home farmers, you really won’t find a better value magazine for all the best top tips on gardening, livestock, DIY and recipes.