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Thursday, January 26th, 2012
Clare Beebe winds up her two part series on incubation with a timely article on rearing your newborn chicks and Janice Houghton-Wallace sets out the rules for a home-reared Christmas turkey dinner. Meanwhile Claire Waring is preparing her bees for spring, Dot Tyne covers lambing and shearing your sheep and Heidi Sands pays tribute to the proud history of the Clydesdale horse.
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Our kitchen garden section is headed up by Veg Talk where Jayne Neville goes through the essential jobs for March, sets up a herb garden and gives some great tips for finding real bargains at local farm sales. We also have a wealth of inside knowledge on growing year round carrots from Terry Walton, the welcome return of our polytunnel experts, Mark and Andy, who deal with siting a tunnel on uneven or difficult ground, and tips from Dave Hamilton on using your waste heat indoors as an aid to propagation.
We have an Eastern and Oriental flavour this month as comfort food investigator Mike Rutland hunts down the deepest secrets of those delicious takeaway treats we all enjoy, and Marjorie Kimber shares her Indian sweet recipes. And for all the non-meat eaters (and for the adventurous meat eaters who like a new culinary treat) Marjorie cooks up a range of delicious tofu meals, ranging from burgers to stir fries flavoured with ginger and sweet chilli and garnished with fresh spinach – absolutely delicious on a bed of basmati rice! Oh, and Andy Hamilton is drinking the nation’s trees and invites you to try out birch sap wine and beer and a traditional oak leaf wine. Why hug a tree when you can drink it instead!
I’m sure you’re all familiar with a ‘bodger’s shaving horse’… OK, neither was I, but it’s the mediaeval equivalent of a Black and Decker workmate, and John Butterworth shows you how to make one. For anyone who likes traditional tools and enjoys basic woodworking, it’s the perfect way to work your wood, and far more enjoyable than either Wii woodworking or mediaeval carpentry for the X-box. And it comes with a seat too! And together with the first in a new series combining pest control, air rifles and foraged wild meat and some useful tips on using and maintaining a chainsaw safely
