Look at the pictures and work out the smallholder terms. Send your answers, together with your name and address, to Mel Gregory, Hollybush Farm, Mardu, Clun SY7 8QG or email mel.gregory@btinternet.com by Sunday 4 January 2009. The winner will be drawn at the January meeting. We’ve filled in the first answer for you as an example.
This soap recipe is for an all olive Castile soap. This is a soap that can be traced back to at least the 12th century and is a very mild, gentle soap suitable for laundry as well as cosmetic use. It is a white soap that takes scents well, so a good all round soap.
October highlights
A coronavirus is the cause of bronchitis and it may locate in the respiratory or the reproductive tract or the
kidneys.
Christmas! A time of goodwill and celebration, often accompanied by seasonal increases in eating, drinking and spending. If all goes well this combination should result in a lot of fun, but unfortunately preparing for Christmas can throw up numerous ethical dilemmas.
The hop plant (Humulus lupulus) contains bitter acids known to be potent antimicrobials. One of these compounds, lupulone, is thought to control levels of the disease-causing bacteria Clostridium perfringens in chickens.
Source: www.thepoultrysite.com
The Carbon Trust is beginning research into algae biofuels with test algae farms in Scotland, aiming to produce algae car fuels commercially by 2020.
Algae are seen by many as the perfect biofuel because they absorb atmospheric carbon dioxide as they grow, like a tree.
Source: Farmers Weekly
There’s something special about popping outside to pick your own cranberries on Christmas Eve and making your own cranberry sauce to go with the festive turkey.
December seems to be a dangerous month for ewe body condition. This is primarily because grass supplies are declining; the ewes are in lamb (hopefully).
Welsh hill farmers could soon be harvesting a crop that could benefit Alzheimer’s disease sufferers.
If you would like to join
Shropshire Smallholders Group
please contact Eric Huff
01694 723706
ssg@plush-hill.co.uk
