January

Until March 7 2010 The Good Life Exhibition – 100 years of growing your own. Garden Museum, Lambeth Palace Road, London SE1 7LB. www.gardenmuseum.org.uk

1 RSPB Icebreakers walk at Paxton Pits Nature Reserve, 10.30am and 2pm, Countryside Services Huntingdon huntingdonshire.gov.uk/parksandcountryside for details of this and other event.

Check out the RSPB website for events over the New Year period countrywide.

www.rspb.org.uk

3 Driffield & District Fanciers Society Show (poultry) including a Belgian Bantam Club Area Show at the Showground, Driffield

7/8 Organic Producers Conference at Harper Adams College, Shropshire More details at www.organicresearchcentre.com and www.organcinform.org or phone 01488 658279

9 Carlisle Old English Game Show at Borderway Auction Mart, Carlisle – details from joan@yarmstrong.freeserve.co.uk (See live examples of the very best in Carlisle Game as described in the poultry Pages in this issue of Smallholder page 73

10 Plough Sunday – many churches and villages celebrate with special customs and services

10 East Yorkshire Fur and Feather Society Show 01773 861921
15/16/17 Whittlesey Strawbear Follow the bear and see Morris and Molly teams from all over the UK on Saturday, Janaury 16 – traditional folk custom through the town of Whittlesey in Cambridgeshire http://www.strawbear.org.uk/

16 British Waterfowl Association AGM 18 The Northern Poultry Show at Hipperholme, West Yorkshire Details from georgegfoster@btinternet.com

20/21 LAMMA – free machinery exhibition at Newark and Notts Showground (see Smallholder pages 59/61)

23/34 Scottish National Show Lanark Livestock Mart. Saturday Contact Andrew Kirkpatrick for further details on 01505 683251 24 Ponies (UK) AGM and Judges Conference, the Forge, Stoneleigh Park, Warks.

www.poniesuk.org

27 Wildlife sounds and sound recording Wildlife Trust, Cambridge www.wildlifebcnp.org

30-31 Hedgelaying – learning to cut and lay a stock proof hedge including thinning out and selecting materials. Booking essential. 01243 811931 www.wealddown.co.uk