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TABLE OF CONTENTS... • Home Farmer News... • Anyone for Tiffin? • Would Mary Berry Approve? • Win Seedball Tins... • Congratulations to Ledbury Country Market... • The Home Farmer Roadshow... Check out our Current Issue... Packed with the usual heady mix of garden tips, recipes, DIY projects and livestock, this month’s magazine has a wartime feel as we consider techniques which helped to feed the war effort on the Home Front. There are many wholesome recipes, gardening techniques to make the most of every square inch of soil, and a peek at a few tips and regulations from the Ministry of Food to help achieve bountiful harvests. Check out some of the chemicals used and you will be amazed that anyone actually survived to win the war! To see the contents panel click here. To buy just this issue click here. A Great Choice of Subscription Gift... Subscribe and get a choice of one of 3 fantastic books FREE: Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall's River Cottage Every Day, The Herb and Flower Cookbook or Paul Hollywood's Bread. By signing up you will also save over £1.00 on every issue (on Direct Debit), get Home Farmerdelivered straight to your door every month and get a choice of any one of these three fantastic books as a FREE GIFT. To view the Blackberry and Honeysuckle Cheesecake Recipe fromThe Herb & Flower Cookbook click here. To see Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall talking about his book click here. To see an extract fromPaul Hollywood's Breadclick here To subscribe by Direct Debit and save 25% click here. To subscribe for 12 issues by card click here. Norfolk Smallholders Training Group Annual Event... Editor Paul had a fantastic day out at the eighth annual event held by The Norfolk Smallholders Training Group at Sheringham Park. I'm not sure how they do it, but the weather always seems to be good on the day, and this year was no exception. A heartfelt thank you from Paul to all he met for the kind words about the magazine, and also to all those who stepped in to man the stand when he needed to go off with his editor's hat on. He describes it as a thoroughly great day spent meeting really nice people - what a lovely way to earn a living! Keep an Eye out for the October Home Farmer... To celebrate our redesign of the magazine beginning with the forthcoming October issue, we have arranged a bumper collection of prizes and giveaways for readers, including a polytunnel from Ferryman Polytunnels and a stylish wooden planter made byVegTrug, and much, much more. Home Farmer News... To celebrate the welcome return of the addictive Great British Bake Offwe welcome reader's recipes. Please see reader Suzanne Miller's no-bake Tiffin recipe below. And in addition to our very own online 'Fake-bake off', we're having a bit of a bake-off of our own here, with our new design/new look HF being 'cooked' at this very moment, ready for the next issue. The new pages are starting to come through now, and, because we are so excited (and to be honest, wanted your feedback) we are are giving you a private view of HF forager David Winnard's pages for the next issue.  Click here to view the new design pages. As always, we would welcome your feedback. IF YOU CAN'T CLICK ON THE LINKS, PLEASE GO TO THE TOP OF THIS LETTER AND CLICK TO VIEW THE WEB VERSION.  Anyone for Tiffin? A big thank you to reader Suzanne Miller for letting us share this recipe for a no-bake, cook in the fridge tiffin.If you have a recipe you want to share and it makes it into the actual magazine, you will receive £10. Please email your recipes to ruth@homefarmer.co.uk. To see Suzanne's Tiffin recipe click here. Would Mary Berry Approve? These moorish Hazelnut Macaroons really are delicious. I'm sure that they wouldn't pass the look test onThe Great British Bake-Off, but they sure are tasty - and even better - they are within arms reach! For the Hazelnut Macaroons recipe click here. Win Seedball Tins... We've got together withSeedball to offer 3 of their Seedball tins. The lucky winner will get a tin of Urban Meadow Mix, Butterfly Mix and Bee Mix worth £15.00. To win, simply go to theSeedball site and find out what is in the seed balls to deter predators. Email your answer to ruth@homefarmer.co.uk, making sure you put Seedball Comp. as the subject, and please include your full name and address too. Congratulations to Ledbury Country Market... Congratulations to all atLedbury Country Market in Herefordshire, which celebrates its 70th anniversary today on Friday 8th August at St Katherine’s Hall. You may recall we covered this particular market a little while ago in an article singing the praises of the nation’s Country Markets – a truly admirable cooperative with its roots in the First World War, the Womens’ Institute and home-made or home-grown produce, and an organization which has, no doubt despite many pressures, stayed true to its ideals, with an annual fee still of just 5p - a figure based on a typical day’s wage for a man in 1919 when the original sum was set. Taking into account almost 100 years of inflation, the figure today would be somewhere between £70 and £80 if it had been consistently updated, We thank you for your kind invitation to your celebrations today, but sadly we are unable to attend due to Home Farmer duties (there are just the two of us - Ruth and myself - in the office). We hope all your celebrations go well, and wish you all the best for the next 70 years. The Home Farmer Roadshow... We shall have a stand at the Melton Mowbray Rare Breeds Sale on Saturday 13th September, so we look forward to seeing any local readers. The show has always been a busy affair and great fun, together with lots of rare breeds on show and for sale. We're also looking forward to attending the 3rd Scottish Smallholders and Growers Festival on Saturday 27th September. This show, the biggest smallholder show in Scotland, will run the RBST Scottish Rare Breed Championships at the event, and if last year's event is anything to go by, it'll be a cracker!

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