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TABLE OF CONTENTS • Welcome to our new style newsletter. We hope you really like it... • ...and hot off the press comes our latest issue... • Terry Walton's Germination Tips • Chickens - Just a Passing Fad? • Fun time Top Movies for Home Farmers • Contents in a Nutshell... IN OTHER NEWS & OFFERS... Take the £5 Challenge... Our £5 challenge is now gathering momentum. Can you beat one particular reader's saving of a hefty £20 when he bought £15 worth of veg from a local trader, which would have cost him as much as £35 from a supermarket? To learn more click here. Making Gooseberry Curd... Now that curds are back in, try this delicious recipe for making gooseberry curd. For details click here. For more recipes like this one click here. A great offer from Electric Fencing Direct... Need to replace your fencing? Look no furthere for some great savings on posts from Electric Fencing Direct. For more details click here. Want to make your own bacon? Fancy curing your own bacon? In the latest issue of Home Farmer we have a full guide to how to make your own bacon. Although you can make your own cure Weschenfelder's are offering a special deal on their curing salts click here Site of the week... One of our newest contributors, John Harrison, is regarded as the allotment guru. His new website is packed with valuable information for all growers, not only for allotment holders. Visit John's site atwww.allotment-garden.org to pick up some great tips and a bargain or two. From Our Pinterst Boards Welcome to our new style newsletter. We hope you really like it... ...and hot off the press comes our latest issue... Our March issue is in stock from today The March issue of Home Farmer has just arrived and is waiting to find a good home; a place where its recipes will be welcomed, followed and enjoyed; a place where its sound husbandry and growing advice will be followed to create a better life for both keeper and beast, and a place where have-a-go home farmers will keenly take on a special project or two! This month we have hands-on on the plot advice, articles on beetroot and sweet potatoes, sound lambing tips from Dot Tyne's wealth of experience, advice on bedding for livestock and natural supplements for your chickens, a feature on curing ham and bacon and a range of vegetarian delights from the vaults of organic veg box specialists Abel & Cole, and features on creating your own woodland and buying and storing wood fuel logs. To view the contents panel click here. To buy the magazine click here. To subscribe click here. To subscribe by direct debit and get a free foraging book worth £16.99click here. Terry Walton's Germination Tips Terry Walton shares some great tips for excellent germination results for potatoes, carrots, French beans and runner beans. To read Terry's tips click here. Chickens - Just a Passing Fad? This month, Home Farmer ventures down dark alleys to investigate some of the more worrying aspects of the poultry sector. With the help of breeders, a number of who are increasingly refusing to sell to potential buyers as a result of their concerns, we offer an insight into a world which most of us will never see. The one thing it does have is scant regard for the welfare of birds, and as such it should be a serious concern for all of us! To read more click here. Fun time Top Movies for Home Farmers Just for fun - these came out of #homefarmerhour (Tuesdays 9 - 10pm on Twitter) Pie Hard with a Hengeance Nanny McPea The Forsyte Aga Raiders of the Lost (pig) Ark Room with a Ewe The Ham Shank Redemption Bury My Heart at Wounded (chut)knee Ham, Stock and Pork Smoking Barrels The Life of Pie Polly(tunnel)anna Contents in a Nutshell... On the Plot - Polytunnel News - Growing Peas - Sweet Potatoes - Beetroot - Seasonal Foraging - A Garden Smallholding - Low Impact Living - The Darker Side of Keeping Chickens - Livestock Bedding - Natural Poultry Supplements - Lambing - Funding Your Flock - Bee-keeping - The UK's Changing Breeds - The Art of Curing - DIY Food Lab - In LizzieB's Kitchen - Veg Recipe Heaven - The Great Big Earth Dig - Planting Woodland - Buying Wood Fuel Logs To buy this issue click here. To subscribe from this issue click here. To subscribe by direct debit and get a free foraging book worth £16.99click here.

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