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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For some African communities, the road to food security is traveled best by tractor. A company called Hello Tractor, supported by non-profit Heifer International, is enabling poor, smallholding ...