The Country Smallholder Magazine

11 September, 2025

Glory in autumn with growing for wildlife, planting new trees and hedges, growing breathtaking garlic and foraging for fruits (and recipes for sloe gin and rosehips). What you need to know about sheep keeping, grading alpaca fibre, controlling rats, and a new way of dairying keeping the calves. Feed your bees now. Visit THE honey show, preview of Scottish Smallholder festival. Inside Practical Poultry, find the perfect Pekin bantam, get started with pure breed chickens, don’t feed waterfowl like chickens, poultry behaviour – understanding threat posturing. Your questions answered and free classified ads.