By Dave Goodwin We’ve all seen them, and many of us will have kept them, but I expect very few of us have stopped to wonder where these little walking triangles came from (and I don’t mean the supermarket). They have become a globally important source of high quality cheap…
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Growing your own bread
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Ahhh bread…. What can beat the smell of freshly baked bread in the morning, or the taste of a slice of hot buttered toast? Wheat flour is such a major part of our diet, but how much do you know about how it’s produced? Paul Lovatt Smith explains how he’s…
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The results of our Courses survey
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Gabby Dolan (GTO)
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We can’t do courses for you right now… But the good news is that when we’re back to fulfilling our brief as the Small Farm TRAINING Group, we’ll know what courses you want. You’ll no doubt remember that way back in February / March, when the world was a simpler…
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SFTG website refresh survey results
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Gabby Dolan (GTO)
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You remember that pair of surveys that we asked you to fill in at the start of the year?
Well, we didn’t just bin the results – oh no! We studied them! And now we’ve published them! Take a look at what was said – the good, the bad and the ugly…
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Dig for Victory!
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Gabby Dolan (GTO)
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Perhaps the most well-known instance of everyone pulling together, large and small, young and old toward a common agricultural goal was the British World War II effort, under the headline of “Dig for Victory.” But these lessons are still valuable for us today during pandemic lockdown…
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