What's in the issue

Pull out diary of autumn show and countryside events, practical experience in a vineyard, choosing a ram, making your own cider, buying your dream home, saving seed, feeding bees, saving your soil, allotments and health, alpaca fibre mill Plus Practical Poultry section – Win an automatic pop hole closer worth over £149, the origins of the modern hybrid hen, managing the moult, poultry vet advice, feeding ducks, geese, turkeys, peacocks and quail, Crests, muffs and beards in pure breed poultry We answer your smallholding and poultry questions and free classified adverts for all readers