I describe archery as the most fun you can have with sticks as it is, in essence, shooting little sticks with a big stick while surrounded by sticks. I love it and I have just completed a longbow course at Celtic Harmony, a local cultural heritage ...
Pocket Farm is an online community but I am happy to say that we have been able to get out and about to mingle more with real communities recently. The Hertfordshire County Show is one of the first major agricultural shows of the year and I always ...
The first Pocket Farm and Handpecked Poultry chicken keeping course took place recently on a glorious sunny Sunday morning in what can only be described as a ‘majestic’ hay barn venue. I was excited and nervous at the same time as I set up in ...
If you have chickens at some time Mister Fox is going to come calling It’s inevitable I guess, but after nearly two years without any signs at all we have recently spotted a fox skulking around the chicken coop. After that amount of time you ...
Talking to a group of experienced poultry keepers recently it became very obvious that there are two very clear camps on the subject of re-homing ex-battery (or intensively farmed) hens. One side is pro the idea on the grounds that they suffer such ...
I have just finished reading this book, which is part of a series, by prolific American homesteading (the North American counterpart of our Smallholding) author Kim Pezza. Kim is experienced in many aspects of farm life and self-sufficiency and is ...
I don’t get around to writing as many blog entires as I would like to but after a recent trip to the Channel Islands I feel compelled to tell you about it. It was my first visit to the Bailiwick* of Guernsey and I must say I think a little bit of me remains ...
Pocket Farm contributor and Pygmy Goat Club stalwart Pat Mercer has recently published a paperback edition of Pygmy Goat Keeping, a book based on the popular series that first appeared on Pocket Farm in March 2013. This revised and updated edition is ...
Some years back, any mention of health issues and chickens, particularly eggs at the time, would almost certainly have involved salmonella. However, these days however with the help of vaccination programmes and good bio-security measures, salmonella ...
With less than two weeks to go I am very much looking forward to the upcoming Weston A Price Foundation European Conference at its new Sandown Park Racecourse venue. ...
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