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TABLE OF CONTENTS... • More Snippets from the Next Issue... • So which light bulb then? • Hen Power... • Making Sweet Strawberry Wine... • Save Starley's Copse, Ambridge • Brigit Strawbridge on Creating a Wildlife Garden... • New Videos on the Home Farmer Website... Brand New Issue out now... This month's Home Farmer is packed, pound for pound, with great tips on growing veg, fantastic recipes, livestock features and DIY/special projects, not to mention our 20-page preserving special. And to complement Mike Clark's excellent article on propagating winter veg to fill the hungry gap we have teamed up with D T Brown to offer every reader £13.77 worth of seeds for free (you just pay postage)to provide you with sustenance during the darkest days of next year's hungry gap. To view the contents panel click here. To buy this issue click here. To save 25% off the cover price by subscribing by Direct Debit and get a copy of Paul Hollywood'sBread book worth £20 FREE click here. To subscribe for 12 issues and get a FREE copy of Paul Hollywood'sBread book click here. Paul Hollywood's BREAD... Sign up today and save over *£1.00 on every issue (on direct debit), get Home Farmerdelivered straight to your door every month and get a FREE copy of Paul Hollywood's Bread book worth £20. To read an extract click here. Plus there is always 20% off any books bought from The Home Farmer Store. To subscribe by *Direct Debit and save 25% click here. To subscribe for 12 issues by card click here. Ou Next Subs Offer... OK. If Paul Hollywood'sBread hasn't hooked you in to subscribe to the UK's hottest magazine then what about Pip McCormick's beautifulThe Herb and Flower Cookbook? Look out for our subs offer change day, 1st August, coming to a newsletter near you. If you want to order now, phone 01772 633444 and make sure to tell us you want The Herb & Flower Cookbook. More Snippets from the Next Issue... A fabulous photo from David Winnard, our Home Farmer forager, of bounty from a single day's foraging in deepest, darkest Lancashire. He shares what can be found on your doorstep together with ideas on how to best use it. Tune in next week for the full contents to be spilled... and we may even have a cover! So which light bulb then? Once upon a time buying a light bulb was a simple thing. You knew the watt level you wanted and you knew it would be a bayonet fit - job done! Now you are faced with a wall of light bulbs showing watts, more watts, wattage equivalents in old pre-eco bulb measurements, lumens, GLS and Kelvins as well as all the current different fitments. We asked our chap in the know, John Butterworth, to shine a light on the vexing question of just what bulb do I actually need? To read the article click here. Hen Power... Here's a great initiative over in Gateshead, created to help relieve the isolation felt by so many elderly folks. Please vote for them here. Visit the Hensioners' blog. Visit the Henpower facebook page. Making Sweet Strawberry Wine... July is a busy wine making month for winemaker, blogger and lawyer Ben Hardy. This recipe for strawberry wine makes a drink that is refreshing, crisp and surprisingly dry. Like blackberry wine it's easy to make and ideal as a first wine to make. The downside? Well, it's not ready until this summer is long gone. To read the recipe and instructionsclick here. To read Ben's excellent blog click here. Save Starley's Copse, Ambridge OK! We all (or nearly all) know that the Archers are imaginary, but the problems of ancient woodland being destroyed to make way for 'development' is not. Consequently the Woodland Trust has put in place a campaign to save Starley's Copse in Ambridge, together with 85 other real areas of ancient woodland throughout the country which are currently threatend by nineteen road-building projects. The campaign invites supporters of our woodland heritage to email the Prime Minister to voice concerns in the way many of us did when there was talk of selling off our woods and forests. We already have one of the least wooded landscapes in Europe, so to see more disappear would be a tragedy, and creating new trees to replace ancient woodland is just not realistic. To read more about the campaign click here. Brigit Strawbridge on Creating a Wildlife Garden... Brigit Strawbridge explains why gardening with attracting wildlife in mind is so important, and sets out a simple plan to attract a wide range of traditional beneficial 'garden dwellers' to bring your plot alive. To read the article click here. New Videos on the Home Farmer Website... Make Your Own Chicken Treats. How to Make a Bee Hotel.

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