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The blog is focused on smallholding and homesteading, and provides helpful tips and advice for those interested in rural living. Its mission is to inspire and educate people about the benefits of self-sufficiency and sustainable living.

For a tour of the smallholding, check out Tracy’s video on how to be self-sufficient in vegetables which takes in their impressive veg plot and includes a round-up of what they plan to grow over the next year. Not sure how to weigh a pig? This is the video short for you! This channel offers a great insight into living on a smallholding in the countryside of the North East of England.

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Join Geoff as he shares 100 days of farming via his YouTube channel. This series is highly recommended viewing and offers a day-by-day taste of what farming from scratch is really like. Do also check out Geoff’s farm diary – you’ll love the pics of his first goat kid.

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Here to tell you all about the birds, bees and eggs, the Robertson family at Higher Oak Farm in Cheshire has lots of advice to share. A visit to their site will help you to get to know your fowl - especially the rare breeds like Light Sussex (upright, alert, and usually docile), Norfolk Grey (active forager and good layer), and Old English Pheasant Fowl (exceptionally hardy and a solid layer, but flighty as they come). They also share lots of helpful tips on how to keep your chickens happy..

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From information about why they decided to escape the rat-race to sharing tips on how you can be more productive by planting fast-growing vegetables for quick harvests, there’s plenty of food for thought here. Liz explains that growing their own food has changed their diets dramatically, and that eating more seasonally has not only improved their health, but the health of their land too. Check out their award-winning YouTube channel for practical pointers and how-to guides.

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Planting trees on your smallholding might seem like a strange way to improve the land, but that’s just what Georgina at Let’s Grow Wild suggests. Find out how more trees mean cleaner water, better soil, a longer growing season for crops, and more.

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Kev’s blog is full of great ideas and tips. Ever considered making all your veg beds the same size? In his post ‘Row cover chicken run', Kev extols the virtues of interchangeable matting and frames, and even creates a mini chicken coop that he rotates from bed to bed. Genius.

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As well as being a highly experienced no-dig gardener, organic small holder and farmer, Sally is a prolific writer. Specialising in children’s educational writing, she has so far completed over 250 books, including some excellent works for adults on her pet topic of organic gardening. Checkout her latest – it’s just what we all dream of – The Healthy Vegetable Garden.

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