Home Farmer Magazine Aug 2015 Vorige editie

August is a traditional month of harvests, and in the same way that any good harvest requires planning at the growing stage, so does the preserving that will ensure you are still enjoying it in winter and into the next year. The August issue of Home Farmer is a celebration of preserving, with jams, pickles, chutneys, curds, freezing, bottling, a piece on converting an old fridge into a dryer, and another on setting up a traditional larder to store all your preserved produce. So get down your preserving pans and your wooden spoons and join us as we fill those jars, bottles and freezers with all our wonderful home-grown produce and shop-bought seasonal bargains to enjoy that delicious taste of summer all rear round.

But of course that’s not at the expense of all our usual features, with inspiring articles on growing figs, creating a first aid garden, building a DIY polytunnel, budget poultry keeping, repairing a wooden floor, a Home Farmer investigation into caffeine - a plant toxin which discourages insect predators - and much, much more.