Thursday 12 February at Longnor Village Hall, 7.30 pm
Thursday 12 February at Longnor Village Hall, 7.30 pm
If you have any unwanted seeds (fruit, vegetable, herbs, flowers etc) then bring them along to the monthly meetings and swap them for ones you fancy growing. Part packets of seeds are fine. The free seed swap will start with the February meeting and be available at the monthly meetings throughout the spring and summer.
If you have any smallholder items for sale, for example eggs, chutneys, home-made craft items, plants, books, tools, do bring them along to meetings and see if anyone is interested in buying them. Items can be put on the table to the right of the entrance door to the hall.
Subscriptions for 2009 are now due.
FOR SALE: The Complete Book of Raising Livestock & Poultry by Thear & Fraser. THE book on all things livestock & poultry!!
Current edition, 1988. Soft-back, 224 pages.
New, unused - duplicate Christmas present.
£15 only! Cover price £16.99.
Contact Ian or Sal on 01588 640302
FOR SALE: Sumatra Fowl - three hens and a cockerel - born 2008, will sell in any combination. £10 each.
Speckled Sussex - two young cockerels - £10 each or they are for the Rayburn!
Contact Lezli Feeney by e mail lezlifeeney@hotmail.co.uk or on 01743 792435
This TV series will be 6 x 60 minutes, following 6 different people as they start up a new smallholding venture, specialising in anything from cows, sheep, goats and pigs, to fruit, carrots, alpacas or wild boar.
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has recommended to UK Health Ministers an increase in the BSE testing age for cattle slaughtered for human consumption from 30 months to 48 months. This would allow older cattle back into the human food chain - a change welcomed by beef producers and the NFU. Health Ministers in all four UK countries must express their support for this move before the change can be implemented but this is
expected to be a formality.
Source: Farmers Weekly
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has announced that slaughterhouses must receive Food Chain Information (FCI) for all calves less than 8 months of age.
The RSPCA has launched a campaign calling for better EU laws to protect pig welfare.
As the egg yolk is forming it is enclosed in a sac containing blood vessels that supply the yolk-building substances.
If you would like to join
Shropshire Smallholders Group
please contact Eric Huff
01694 723706
ssg@plush-hill.co.uk