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In this months issue

Welcome once again to your new Home Farmer as the March issue finds its way through your letterboxes and onto the nation’s news stands. And it really does have even more of what you’ve all said is best about it, with articles as diverse as our own modern lives. This month we have all our regular gardening features to get you off to a flying spring start, with the welcome return of Mark and Andy on polytunnel duty; our regular livestock pages with Clare’s guide to raising your newborn chicks, Dot’s sheep, Claire’s bees, Heidi on Clydesdales and Janice on rearing a Christmas turkey; over sixteen pages of truly mouth-watering recipes; some great DIY features including the making of a ‘bodger’s shaving horse’ (which you of course all know is the mediaeval equivalent of a work bench) and a guide to chainsaw use and safety; fantastic articles on despatching pests with an air rifle (and then eating some of them!), orchards, allotments, our regular Question Time and product reviews – and as if that’s not enough we are confident that we are probably the only magazine (or certainly one of a very select few!) which includes recipes for drinking your local trees. Beat that for self-sufficiency! We are confident it really is the magazine which gives you more (including your free raspberry canes for every reader with this packed issue). We all had great fun putting it together as usual, and we hope you have just as much fun reading it (and more importantly, putting it all into practice).

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In next months issue

And we are already off to a flying start with the April issue which will include an eight page guide to the 2012 shows, but we’ve decided to include a little more than just the growing and rearing side, with a few events for al the family too, including Volkswagen Camper fun days and anything which might keep the kids occupied during the long (hot?) summer. We are confident that the events included will cover all your summer requirements and provide lots of entertainment for all the family, and we look forward to even meeting you at one or two of them! We’re also looking forward to a wide range of new and exciting features, including whittling, using your bodger’s shaving horse, restoring your chicken house, the first steps in a new series on making artisan cheeses, rabbit recipes and growing veg and flowers together to produce the ultimate cottage garden, not to mention all our regulars including polytunnels, seasonal growing, livestock, recipes and Andy Hamilton’s ‘If it moves (or doesn’t), drink it!’ column. Make it a date!