After a summer break, Mike and Alan return to get you up to speed with a summer of successes and failures, new skills and Baywatch! What more could you want from your homesteading podcasts!

We love recording live on location, so here\'s a little bonus snippet from the beach tonight.

Mike and Alan catch up on recent events during a trip to Mike\'s allotment. We then talk bees and how you can get started as a beekeeper.

Succession is the topic of the day as Mike and Alan get together to discuss recent events on their homesteads. We discuss recent sowings, protein and Queen rearing. Thanks for listening.

Priorities for June were the main focus of our chat today as we discussed managing the garden now that spring has finally sprung. We digressed in to planning for family holidays and how to manage livestock and plant stock through those periods, before discussing a poor start to the beekeeping season. Finally we talked about how you can start keeping poultry. Many thanks for listening.

We talk gardens and netting against pests before considering non-alcoholic drinks.

We\'re back with more talk about the season so far and with the weather starting to warm up, there\'s loads to cover including allotments, bees and cheese. We also talk tender plants, EDCs and common pests. Thanks for listening.

In this episode we discuss our recent efforts in the garden and especially out failures. We go on to provide some tips on what to sow now and where to sow it. Finally we respond to a request for some ideas on how to encourage wildlife in to the garden.

Finally we\'re back with our latest episode! We take a whistle-stop tour through our recent escapades as we try to catch you up on everything we\'ve been doing over recent weeks including sowing, planting, quail, bunnies and bodgers. If you enjoy our show, please join the Facebook group and tell your friends about us.

Mike and Alan discuss the last fortnight on their respective homesteads and share their successes and failures before considering ways in which you can make the time to develop your own homesteads further.