• Home
  • About
    • Privacy
    • Build a website
  • Contact
  • Around the Estate
  • Online store
  • Archive

Old Varieties

Celebrating and remembering old fruit and vegetable varieties



  • Animals
  • Events
  • Featured
  • Flowers
  • Fruit & Veg
    • Apples
    • Medlars & Quinces
    • Pears
    • Vegetables
  • News
  • Organisations
  • Suppliers
You are here: Home / Archives for Rare Breed

Rare breeds help restore meadow

Print This Post Print This Post
February 19, 2011 by admin Leave a Comment

An article in Farminguk.com states that Gateshead Council is using rare breed animals to help restore a wildflower meadow. Rare breed Hebridean …
[Read more...]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Breed Animals, Decline, Flowers, Forestry, Furry Friends, Gateshead Council, Habitats, Improvements, Insects, Intensive Agriculture, Livestock, Longhorn Cattle, Magic Back, Rare Breed, Rare Breeds, Rich Grasslands, Sheep, Wild Flowers, Wildflower Meadow, Wildflower Meadows


Countryfile Adam is Champion

Print This Post Print This Post
October 28, 2010 by admin Leave a Comment
North Ronaldsay Sheep

BBC Countryfile presenter Adam Henson, who own and runs the Cotswold Farm Park was crowned Champion of the Year at the annual farmers Weekly …
[Read more...]

Filed Under: Animals, Featured Tagged With: Animal Breeds, Animal Farm, Bbc, Bbc Countryfile, Bovine Tb, Breed Cattle, Champion, Conservation Work, Cotswolds, Earth Approach, Farmers Weekly, Farming Life, Grosvenor House Hotel, Hotel In London, Orkney Isles, Oxen, Park Cattle, Peter Kendall, Public Eye, Rare Animal, Rare Breed, Trials And Tribulations, White Park


Organisations

Print This Post Print This Post
August 10, 2010 by admin Leave a Comment

Rare Breed Organisations Herdwick Sheep Breeders Association Focusing on all aspects of breeding and raising Herdwick sheep Rare Breeds Survival …
[Read more...]

Filed Under: Organisations Tagged With: Flowers, Herdwick Sheep, Heritage Organisations, Heritage Seed Library, Heritage Varieties, Livestock Breeds, Plant Heritage, Plants And Gardens, Rare Breed, Rare Breeds Survival Trust, Sheep Breeders, Vegetables


The British Araucana Club

Print This Post Print This Post
February 22, 2010 by admin Leave a Comment
Picture of Black male Araucana

The British Araucana club first started out life as the English Araucana poultry society back in around 1915. By 1960 it had faded away and there was …
[Read more...]

Filed Under: Animals Tagged With: Ancestral Home, Araucana Chickens, Araucana Club, Aruca, Blue Eggs, Club Members, Country Members, Defra, Domestic Chicken, Egg Laying Chickens, Gene Bank, Gene Pool, Good Stock, Hatching Eggs, Incas, Northern Chile, Poultry Breed, Poultry Clubs, Rare Breed, Southern Peru


RSSTwitterFacebook

ALSO OF INTEREST

New apple orchard for Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust is creating a new fruit orchard using 60 local variety apple, pear

Meadow clary secure in Gloucestershire

Once common across southern England, meadow clary, a rare blue wild flower, had almost disappeared

  • Juniper seedlings preserve plant in England
  • Survey reveals apple identity crisis
  • Over 365 varieties of cider apples grown in UK
  • West Dean apple fair 2011
  • Orchid Show at Tatton Park
Get Adobe Flash playerPlugin by wpburn.com wordpress themes

Return to top of page

Copyright © 2012 · www.thesportsphysio.com · You may also be interested in Heritage and History · Log in