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BASED IN SOMERSET
(FOUNDED IN 1976)

Taunton Beekeepers Association
Contact Lesley Garner 01823 672119 or mailto:lesley.garner@care4free.net

Green Gardeners
Mid Somerset Organic Gardeners Group
Meeting Venue: Parish Rooms, Somerton starting at 7.30 pm
Sue Sheppard 01458 273455
http://www.greengardeners.org.uk

Events:

Oct 20	Knightshayes Court - Restoring a victorian walled garden - John Lanyon head gardener
Nov 17	Guerilla Gardening - Richard Reynolds
2009
Jan 19	The Changing Face of Beekeeping
Feb 16	The Magdalen Project
Mar 16	Organic Fair Trade Oil from Palestine - Cathi Davis
April 20	Growing Ornamental Vegetables - Sally Gregson

S O G (Somerset Organic Gardeners) based in Taunton is no longer active - it is suggested that interested gardeners contact this group

Taunton Poultry Fanciers
hold monthly meetings at Hatch Beauchamp village hall near Taunton (10 min Drive from Junction 25 off the M5) on a Monday evening starting between 7.30 - 8.00pm
The dates are as follows :
Oct20th, Nov17th and agm + Xmas party Dec15th

the secretary
Mr John Fisher
Greenway High Street
Blackford Wedmore
Somerset
BS28 4NL
01934 712629

Rare Breeds Survival Trust www.rbst.org.uk
Somerset Support Group
Mrs Rose Gainsborough
34 Somerville Way
Bridgewater
Somerset
Tel: 01278 429279
E-mail: rosegainsborough@hotmail.co.uk

FWAG - Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group
http://www.fwag.org.uk/

South West England Dry Stone Walling Association
Regular courses in Somerset and Dorset
Details from Kim Robinson 01749 689037 (evenings and weekends only please)
or mailto:whf@boltblue.com

Somerset Hedge Group
http://www.somerset-hedgegroup.org.uk/

Everything Exmoor is a free encyclopaedia, built by the community and business of Exmoor offering information on every aspect of life in the Exmoor National Park. It gathers knowledge of Exmoor in one place and signposts readers to web sites containing more detailed information.
Everything Exmoor www.EverythingExmoor.org.uk is a non-commercial website gathering information about Exmoor and currently running at nearly a million visitors a year - actual figure 900,348 visitors per year. Please feel free to submit pages or photos on any subject related to Exmoor. You can add your business into the free Business Directory via www.everythingexmoor.org.uk/Add_Listing.php

www.nationalrural.org - a huge database, part of the National Rural Knowledge Exchange, bringing together rural groups, societies and business support organisations.

PUBLICATIONS AND MEDIA

The Landsman - this is a free publication available from a number of local outlets (eg Wrantage Mills, the new market centre at Bridgwater, Mole Valley Farmers) which covers topics which could be of interest to smallholders

www.southwestfarmer.co.uk - they have recently revamped their website (posted September 2006)

http://www.smallholder.co.uk - Smallholder magazine

http://www.farmradio.org.uk - the Internet Radio Station for farmers and country folk who live and work in the 'Levels and Moors' area of Somerset

Livestock:
http://www.blpbooks.co.uk/livestock_organisations.php

Poultry:
http://www.blpbooks.co.uk/poultry_organisations.php

Smallholding:
http://www.blpbooks.co.uk/smallholding_organisations.php

www.firstpasture.co.uk - a new farming and smallholder bookshop - a range of titles from poultry and sheep to growing your own fruit and vegetables. (posted 30 October 2005)

http://www.farmingbooksandvideos.com - Farming Books and Videos Ltd. publish and retail books and DVDs on farming, smallholder and of general rural issues. More than 350 items in stock (posted 14 August 2006)

TRAINING

http://www.themagdalenproject.org.uk - based near Chard, offering courses of interest to smallholders

www.somerset-training.com

SMALLHOLDER GROUPS

http://www.devonsmallholders.co.uk - Website for DASH

http://www.smallholders.org - Smallholders Online based in Devon

www.lsssc.org.uk - Lincolnshire Smallholder and Self Sufficiency Club - their organiser has recently contacted us by email and draws our attention to http://forum.downsizer.net/ which has many topics of interest to smallholders. She also recommends http://www.acountrylife.com/index.php
(posted 5 July 2006)

http//:www.farmstockforums.com - a forum based site where small scale livestock producers can get together to exchange views; ask for help and advertise their stock for sale; free of charge and there are no membership or joining fees (posted Feb 07)

http://www.wholesome-food.org.uk/conference.html

http://www.gofarmer.com - Gofarmer is a non auction site set up a couple of years ago which offers not only the choice to sell direct to other farmers but also the opportunity to sell direct to the general public with a wide choice of goods from livestock to machinery and also meat products, veg boxes to holiday homes, farm B&Bs and even contractors can advertise their services. The site is designed to combine all things rural and make them accessible to all people from all areas be it county to county or even nationwide this includes Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and now even expats in France. (posted September 2006)

http://www.pershore.ac.uk/sh

www.ecolots.co.uk is a free on-line advertising service for rural products and services which support the environmentally sensitive management of land, trees and wildlife.