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Growing Food

Planting a Native Hedge for Shelter and Bird Food

Smallholding

Baking Sourdough Bread with Stoneground Wholemeal Flour

Wildlife

Creating a Cottage Garden Border with Perennials and Herbs

Recipes

Foraging for Wild Garlic in British Woodlands This Spring

Growing Food

Rural Skills
- Oliver Pemberton
- 12 September 2026
Keeping a Log Pile for Insects and Garden Birds
- James Whitfield
- 10 September 2026
Making Beeswax Wraps to Reduce Kitchen Waste
- Oliver Pemberton
- 4 September 2026
Growing Tomatoes Outdoors in a Sheltered UK Garden
- James Whitfield
- 1 September 2026
Pruning Apple Trees for Better Fruit and Shape
- Sophie Bramley
- 29 August 2026
Building a Compost Heap from Pallet Collars and Leaves

Smallholding

Country Crafts

Recipes
- James Whitfield
- Today 03:30 am
Planting Spring Bulbs in Grass for a Wildflower Meadow

Wildlife

Recipes

Home & Garden

Wildlife
- Emily Hartley
- Today 03:52 pm
Cooking a Seasonal Vegetable Stew with Root Crops

Seasonal Living

Rural Skills

Growing Food

Smallholding

Long established fact that a reader will be distracted
- by James Whitfield
- 6 July 2026
Long established fact that a reader will be distracted
- by Sophie Bramley
- 4 July 2026
Long established fact that a reader will be distracted
- by Emily Hartley
- 28 June 2026