Many of us will have dreamed of a simple life in the country, eating fresh veg from the garden and morning-fresh eggs from our own chickens. But living the good life is no walk in the park - it can ...

I'm wrist-deep in the sticky viscera of a pig and a chicken when it strikes me that the sausage-making course at Kate Humble's farm isn't for the faint of heart – nor for devout Muslims, nor Jews, nor ...

The prospect of abandoning life in the city for a Good Life-style existence on a smallholding can be intensely alluring, as Ecologist columnist and author of Brave Old World, Tom Hodgkinson can ...

Kate Humble and her husband, Ludo, have launched an ambitious plan to preserve a Monmouthshire farm and use its old buildings as a centre to teach rural skills and animal husbandry. Here Kate reports ...

Ever since that Surbiton garden was torn up for Geraldine the goat, having a smallholding has been symbolic of a simpler, happier lifestyle. Yet Tom Good of The Good Life was only harking back to an ...

IT may be claimed for the present post-war period that it has a substantial fund of good counsel available for newcomers to the land. Three of the books under review aim at providing trustworthy ...

Believed to date back, in part, to the 1600s, Wilbrighton Manor Farm near Newport is up for grabs and it's cheaper than ever. The 6.25-acre residential smallholding boats a four-bedroom detached ...

Farming is far from an idyllic lifestyle. Keeping livestock is fraught with difficulties and if you're in the big league, the price of wheat and barley constantly fluctuates. Yet the lure of the ...