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TABLE OF CONTENTS... • Spiced Apple and Pear Pie... • 50 Interesting Facts about Apples... • Old Drinks that Pack a Mean Punch... • Courgette Chutney... • How to Cure Bullying in the Chicken Coop... • Making Soft Goats Cheese... • Cheesemaking Kits... • In Next Month's Packed Issue... To Subscribe... Sign up today and save over £1.00 on every issue (on Direct Debit), getHome Farmer delivered straight to your door every month and get a copy ofThe Great British Farmhouse Cookbook as a FREE GIFT. To subscribe by direct debit and save 35% click here. To subscribe for 12 issues by card click here. Buy this Month's Issue... To view the contents panel click here. To buy this month's issueclick here. To subscribe by direct debit (saving up to 35%)click here. To subscribe for 12 months using a credit or debit card click here. The Home Farmer App... If you've not already done so, download our FREEHome Farmer App and subscribe to Home Farmer for £19.99 for 12 issues WORLDWIDE on your tablet. You can now also find very reasonably priced eBooks via the app, so that's yet another reason to give it a go. In the Next Issue... 16 pages of crafty gift ideas to make, including flavoured truffles, home-made room scents, fondants and fabric projects. To buy this issue click here. To subscribe by card click here. To subscribe by direct debit click here. In the Next Issue... Making Your first cheddar cheese. To buy this issue click here. To subscribe by card click here. To subscribe by direct debit click here. In the Next Issue... How to make super tasty jams without refined sugar. To buy this issue click here. To subscribe by card click here. To subscribe by direct debit click here. In the Next Issue... Growing Apples in containers. To buy this issue click here. To subscribe by card click here. To subscribe by direct debit click here. In the Next Issue... Make way for some really great flavoured truffles - we have 4 new but quite familiar flavours to make. To buy this issue click here. To subscribe by card click here. To subscribe by direct debit click here. Ebooks... The How to Build and Use Your Clay Ovenebook is now available to download via the Home Farmer app. To check out the clay oven slow roasted lamb recipe from the book click here. To download the HF appclick here. And the Winner Is... The lucky winner of our competition to win a wonderful garden smoker worth over £1100 fromThe Posh Shed Companyhas now been emailed. Congratulations to Emma Johnson from Hampshire. Spiced Apple and Pear Pie... Made with the fresh and nutritious fruit of orchards, this spiced apple and pear pie is as wholesome as, well... apple pie, and will have you drooling as it does its stuff in the oven. Our thanks to Helping Britain Blossom for sharing this recipe. To read the recipe click here. IF YOU CAN'T CLICK ON THE LINKS, GO TO THE TOP OF THIS PAGE AND CLICK TO VIEW THE WEB VERSION. 50 Interesting Facts about Apples... Did you know that the largest apple ever picked weighed 3lbs 2oz? You really never know when that key question in the local pub quiz will hang on you knowing one of these 50 little known facts. To read more click here. Old Drinks that Pack a Mean Punch... Frank Beswick opens up his old recipe books to revive some drinks of yore as he creates Bishop, Colonel Negus and Caundle. To read the recipes click here. Courgette Chutney... In the August issue we used a recipe for courgette chutney taken, with permission, from John and Val Harrison's book How to Store Your Home Grown Produce. However, we need to apologise humbly as there was an error in the quantity of sugar contained in the recipe. Here is the correct version. To see the recipe click here. How to Cure Bullying in the Chicken Coop... Janice Houghton-Wallace looks at aggressive poultry behaviour and how to prevent bullying in the chicken coop. To read more click here. Making Soft Goats Cheese... Paul Peacock of City Cottage shows how to make soft goat's cheese. It’s got a clean but quite strong taste, and can be rolled in nuts - chipped almonds are particularly good - or herbs. To read the recipe click here. Cheesemaking Kits... Home Farmer is now an appointed UK stockist of Mad Millie's Cheese Starter Kits - cheese making kits which allow you to make an array of gourmet cheeses such as feta, cheddar, halloumi, mozzarella, camembert and many more. To visit our store click here. In Next Month's Packed Issue... To see next month's contents panel click here. To buy the next issue (it will be posted on Friday 28th August) click here. Or you could, of course, just jump straight to the next step and subscribe: To subscribe for £3.45 paying monthly, or £35 paying annually (a saving of over 35%) on direct debit click here. To subscribe for £40 (the UK price, and a saving of over 22%) using a card click here. 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