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April 5, 2021
So you know about baby marrows…. This is what they should look like. ...
February 16, 2021
Pictured here, a very rare Blue Silver Wheaten, a colour developed by Pekin Bantams RSA...
February 16, 2021
If your smallholding is anything like ours, given the amazing rainfall we’ve had over the...
February 2, 2021
Gauteng Smallholder has run stories on ticks affecting pets and livestock, but we smallholders are...
THE BACK PAGE, BY BLOMMETJIE
March 8, 2021
We should have called him “Sir”
There's a common bit of doggerel that goes “how do you know when a fellow...
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March 8, 2021
The benefit of a plot in lockdown
As everybody who lives on a smallholding knows, there are many advantages to plot life...
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January 4, 2021
Santa’s Takealot Christmas
Ugly old bat, thought Santa Claus as he saw the warty face of Mrs Claus...
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COMMENT, BY THE EDITOR
January 4, 2021
A few weeks ago I received a call from a lady reader who said, “I...
November 5, 2020
It is very easy, when entering the fray about the climate crisis, to become embroiled...
October 14, 2020
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way...
August 24, 2020
For the first time, recently, political commentators are starting to seriously suggest the demise of...
August 6, 2020
Let's not be Pollyannas about this virus crisis. Coronavirus, and the effects it has forced...
June 25, 2020
With everybody by now sick to the back teeth of the 'virus and its associated...
May 25, 2020
It feels like a lifetime has passed since our last printed edition, for time has...
May 4, 2020
We could tell you about the Swedish epidemiologist who believes Covid-19 lockdowns are anti-democratic and...