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There's a very interesting video somewhere on here - I think I probably saw it in @Kiwi Pete 's ongoing Holistic thread, but didn't think to bookmark it - where a farm protects its grass against poaching / weed growth etc. by creating a really dense sward through selection of grasses which...

This turned up on a smallholder's forum. Maybe time to reclaim the NFU as your own? http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/commentanalysis/corporatewatch/thenfureport.aspx

I have asked on here previously (or it may have been the old forum) about hedge planting and was given lots of really good advice, but I am only just about to start planting. I have just bought a bargain lot of hedge plants - end of season - couldn't resist them. The last time I tried this it...

I am pee'd off with Google's well-documented behaviour. I feel I should take my tiny little bit of custom elsewhere. Which other search engines can you recommend, given that I'm technologically inept and don't like change?

On the thread on the Paris massacre in Off Topic discussion has wandered - of course - onto lamb prices and the market for Halal; and whether it is an acceptable end for one's livestock or not. The discussion moved on but I wanted to show this, so am posting here. I believed this too, until I...

This just turned up (unsolicited) in my inbox. But despite some sympathy for the outgoing tenants, I can't help feeling that this petition isn't a positive step. Would be interested to have your take on this. edited to say, I hope it is OK to post this here, especially as these people tend to...

Can anyone tell me the pros and cons of having farm buildings and housing interlinked so that they share some of the same facilities; e.g. an office within the farmhouse itself, a shared heating system or electricity supply for dwelling and some buildings, an outside loo that would be used by...

I'm still planting up my orchard, a little bit at a time; ordering trees just now for next autumn. There's plenty of information to be had about apple cultivars, also plums; but cherries - not so much. I have been buying punnets of likely varieties when they appear in the supermarkets, to see...

There's a story doing the rounds here, in which, as far as I can make out, a smallholder with a small flock of ewes and limited land, is next to a big house with fields of its own - not sure if it is actually a farm or not. The field bordering the smallholding is used by a relative of the big...