Animal magic in the garden

Garden designer and BBC Radio 4 Gardeners’ Question Time panelist Bunny Guinness wrote a piece in The Telegraph last weekend about Suzie Baldwin’s new book – The Smallholder’s Handbook: Keeping & caring for poultry & livestock on a small scale

“You don’t need acres of space to keep enough livestock to live the good life”

“Suzie Baldwin’s new book The Smallholders Handbook tells you all you need to know to get started. Suzie who is passionate about people discovering the immense satisfaction that comes from producing your own meat, wisely suggests you begin with a few chickens, then perhaps graduate to a few cade lambs* and go on from there.”

Bunny goes on to discuss her and Suzie’s suggestions for sheep, pigs and cows…

 

* a cade lamb is an orphan lamb reared on a bottle