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Smallholder show opens tomorrow
Thousands of smallholders and country enthusiasts from all over the UK will be visiting the RWAS Showground, Builth Wells, Wales tomorrow and Sunday for the annual Royal Welsh Smallholder and Garden Festival.
Smallholder magazine, published by Newsquest from its offices in Cornwall, started the show in the 1990s and it grew quickly and eventually moved to the Showground in Builth Wells.
Smallholder magazine handed over the reins for the show to the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society in 2001 who have added many attractions each year.
For 2008, all the much-loved events will be staged, including smallholding stalls and information centres, the stunning pig display, pygmy, dairy and fibre goat shows, alpacas, cattle and a successful sheep show.
The Farmers' Market in Wales has more stalls, selling the best of locally produced food.
Bee keeping is also on display. The Open Dog Show brings together the best examples of dog breeds while the Vintage Machinery has expanded with a big display of tractors and farm equipment.
There will be an auction of vintage tractors, implements, literature and other collectibles on the Saturday. Serious smallholders will find the programme of free talks such as how to get started in smallholding' invaluable and the Property Roadshow will feature numerous examples of smallholdings for sale.
New events for 2008 include the Celtic Dance Festival, with groups offering workshops and displays from the UK, Eire and France. Green issues are on the agenda and the Green Horizons Festival has been developed to offer practical advice on a more sustainable way of life.
Liz Wright, Smallholder's editor and a working smallholder and bee keeper in rural Cambridgeshire, will be on hand to meet readers.
Log on to the website to keep up to date with the show and make sure of the next issue in which there will be a full report.
4:07pm Friday 16th May 2008
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