SFTG Quiz Night - CANCELLED!!!!!
2023-04-17 18:15 - 21:00 (Europe/London) | East Sussex
sadly lambing and Easter holidays meant we didn’t get enough interest to run the quiz in April, but it will be bigger and better in October. Watch this space for the new date !
A free quiz with prizes!!!!!
You Thank you to the Lakedown brewery and taproom for hosting this private event for us, Cat has arranged a super fun quiz night hosted by professional quiz master Terry. Taking place on Monday April 17th, you can have teams of 2/3/4 people, or simply join a team when you get there.
Lakedown tap room will be supplying beer and wine from 6.30 onwards, and the quiz will start at 7pm. This is a really fun quiz, (anyone who is part of the Framfield and Blackboys allotment society will know what a great quizmaster Terry is), and the questions are very much geared towards the life of a smallholder, the SFTG as well as some general knowledge.
Lakedown Tap Room is a gorgeous venue, a beautiful place which we are lucky enough to have exclusive use of for the night. The Tap Room are very kindly donating a mini keg (about 7pints) of a beer of their choice to the winner, …..and SFTG is giving a bottle of wine (or another mini keg). So, lots of reasons to come. The quiz night is free to book - and we promise you’ll laugh! There will be some food available on the night provided for free from SFTG funds, and if you would like to book something extra to eat, you can email helen@lakedownbrewing.com who will be providing sharing platters for you to purchase. This is a new event for us, and one we would love to make an annual social event, so please come and support it if you can.
Lakedown Trout Fishery, Swife Ln, Burwash, Mayfield, Heathfield TN21 8UX

An Introduction to Smallholding
2023-04-22 12:00 - 16:00
Perhaps you're about to take over a smallholding? Or are you relatively new to keeping land and animals? If so, perhaps you feel you'd like to talk the issues through with others in the same boat, and with someone who's been doing it for a while? If that sounds like you, then our "Introduction to Smallholding" workshop is just the thing for you.
Come and spend the afternoon finding out what smallholding entails from a practical perspective, as you visit this 7 acre plot. Paul Lovatt Smith has been working on the land for over 15 years, and has a wealth of knowledge that he's happy to share, including:

How to get started - we know it's all a bit overwhelming at first
What's involved with the paperwork and legal aspects, as well as the finances
A basic overview of keeping poultry, sheep, cattle and pigs
Growing veg
Making hay and growing small-scale cereals

Please note: this course will be held outdoors (and partly in a barn) - so please do wear suitable outdoors clothing, bearing in mind that this is England - it may well be cold and damp (or warm and sunny, boiling and dry, windy and snowing... you get the picture).
Can't make this date? Event sold out? Please email our training organiser so that you will be on the list when we run the workshop again.

Meet the Member 22nd April 2023
2023-04-22 13:30 - 15:30
Come and meet Gwen and Tony, they have been very busy setting up their small holding and diversifying into different areas, they are currently busy setting up their shop which offers Lamb, Pork and seasonal vegetables, Gwen also makes preserves, soups and crumbles.
They have poultry and eggs for sale including rare breeds and Gwen makes her own liquid organic plant food.
Gwen and Tony will show you around and you can find out about their market garden, not just the polytunnel and growing, but the companion planting, what they feed to the pigs and what goes into the wormeries, why they have built the raised beds, common issues and how they resolve them, what works well and what is challenging on heavy clay. Followed by tea and cake.
Gwen and Tony are both interested to run workshops in the future so please let them know if you feel that you would like to know more about specific areas.
"Coldharbour Farm, Three Leg Cross, Ticehurst, TN5 7HN – follow the road down Cross Lane, past the Bull Pub, straight on, over the little tight hummock, past all the cottages on the left, last one being Sanctuary Cottage, then the next farm gate on the left is Coldharbour Farm. where you will find parking, please remember your wellies and dress accordingly with the weather"

How To Make Marmalade
2023-04-23 10:00 - 14:00
Have you ever wondered how to make Seville orange marmalade?
Jay Kendall is happy to teach you all you need to know, ingredients & jars etc will all be included and best of all you get to take your marmalade home at the end of the day.
The workshop will take around 3.5 - 4 hours so please bring a packed lunch with you but tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided. Please bring an apron.
There is plenty of parking available.
