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Brilliant product, by S. Dollimore (UK)

I’ve had one of these planners for many years and it is still as good as new. Even though I am now a seasoned vegetable gardener, I still find it really useful and take it around the garden with me, in my trug, as I’m planting things out. It is the most useful gardening guide ever! This one I have bought for my son who is just getting into gardening and I was delighted that it is still available.

An extremely rare lichen that has previously never been seen in Wales has been found in the grounds of Gregynog Hall, near Caersws, in Powys. The endangered Enterographa Sorediata lichen is thought to have survived due to the number of ancient trees in the Halls grounds.

GIVEN the importance of common land to Welsh farming – it covers more than 10 per cent of the land mass – some tough talking is a certainty at this year’s Welsh Commons Forum (WCF) annual conference. The Welsh Government’s Deputy Agriculture Minister, …

Alun Davies, Deputy Minister for Agriculture, Food and Fisheries said: “Each year food festivals in Wales contribute millions of pounds to the economy and are a key element in promoting Wales’s burgeoning food culture and giving visitors a ‘sense of …

In Grow Great Grub, Gayla Trail, the founder of the leading online gardening community (YouGrowGirl.com), shows you how to grow your own delicious, affordable, organic edibles virtually anywhere.

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Grow Great Grub packs in tips and essential information about:

• Choosing a location and making the most of your soil (even if it’s less than perfect)
• Building a raised bed, compost bin, and self-watering container using recycled materials
• Keeping pests and diseases away from your plants—the toxin-free way
• Growing bountiful crops in pots and selecting the best heirloom varieties
• Cultivating hundreds of plants, from blueberries to Thai basil, to the best tomatoes you’ll ever taste
• Canning, and preserving to make the most of your garden’s generosity
• Green-friendly, cost-saving, growing, and building projects that are smart and stylish
• And much more!

Whether you’re looking to eat on a budget or simply experience the pleasure of picking tonight’s meal from right outside your door, this is the must-have book for small-space gardeners—no backyard required.

GAYLA TRAIL is the creator of the acclaimed top gardening website yougrowgirl.com. Her work as a writer and photographer has appeared in publications including The New York Times, Newsweek, Budget Living, and ReadyMade. A resident of Toronto who has grown a garden on her rooftop for more than 10 years, she is the author of You Grow Girl: The Groundbreaking Guide to Gardening.

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THE Love Food Festival will return to Blaenavon for a second year this weekend, giving visitors the chance to taste the best of Welsh produce. The two-day festival, which will be held over Saturday and Sunday, was launched at Blaenavon’s Big Pit in the …

An essential guide to everything you need to buy, prepare, cook and eat meat today from one of the finest contemporary cooks.

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In this superb book Frances Bissell has compiled a classic compendium of over 200 delicious recipes, for beef, veal, pork, lamb, poultry and game. Here are tempting slow-cooked braises and stews to enjoy for a winter Sunday lunch, light and quick one-course meals to rustle up at the end of the working day, and sauces, preserves and accompaniments to lend a new twist to traditional dishes

In addition, she gives invaluable advice about finding and buying the best ingredients, all the various cuts and joints and how to get the best from them, equipment, roasting charts and how to joint and carve.

According to one national newspaper, Frances Bissell has the largest following of any cookery writer in the country (Delia Smith: “Really?”). Whether this is true or not, she is a cook of formidable range and versatility, as enthusiastically participating in salami- making in deepest Kent as doing a stint as guest chef at the Manila Mandarin hotel. In The Organic Meat Cookbook she has assembled a collection of more than 200 delicious recipes to make the best of the fine free-range and organic meats that are increasingly available.

The recipes seem to come from just about every conceivable cuisine in the world, with a very interesting emphasis on Spain and Portugal (the latter very welcome, since few if any Portuguese recipes are in general circulation) and their former spheres of influence–Latin America, the Philippines, Basque shepherd dishes from California.

A section devoted to each meat is prefaced by a useful account of cooking methods and of the various English, French and American cuts and joints. This handsome addition to the Ebury Press uniform paperback series of cookbooks is actually a reworking of Frances Bissell’s Real Meat Cookbook, dating from the innocent days of 1992, when there was less reason to emphasis the purity of the meat’s provenance. –Robin Davidson

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The report from the assembly’s cross-party enterprise and business committee wants co-ordination of policy, planning as well as financial considerations to promote town centres. The Welsh government’s independent panel on business rates should consider …

Antoinette Sandbach, shadow rural affairs minister for Wales, now wants assurances from the Welsh Government that it is fully prepared for the virus. “I am urging ministers to ensure that Wales, alongside the rest of the UK, has contingency plans,” …

Mr Hughes said the four were normally rivals but had worked successfully together to provide the beer tent at the annual Conwy Feast food festival. While the Great Orme and Conwy breweries are within a couple of miles of the pub, another brewery …