one-day course mini-smallholding day

location: Templecombe, Somerset

This new course shows you how you can become more self-sufficient even if you don’t own acres of land. We have set up our own ‘Bite-size’ Farm, an exciting new project to show what can be done with a small area. The plot is just 2/3rd of an acre in size, and will have pig and chicken pens, large vegetable and herb growing area, polytunnel, fruit trees, fruit cage, edible hedgerow and bees.

Experienced smallholder Sally will show you how you can plan your own mini farm to keep livestock such as chickens, ducks, turkeys and pigs and become self sufficient in vegetables.

Important principles such as soil management, fertility, crop rotation, companion planting will be covered together with the basics of keeping livestock and growing vegetables and fruit. She will cover all the paperwork you need to keep animals, such as holding and herd numbers, movement licenses, and cover issues such as keeping animals in urban areas.

dates: see 'book online' below

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the venue is a 100-acre organic farm on the edge of the Blackmore Vale in Somerset