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Deer Photograph Sent In By TopVeg For Farming Friends Photograph Of The Month Competition

sara | June 2, 2009

I was delighted to receive an email this morning with a lovely photograph for the Farming Friends Photograph Of The Month Competition.
TopVeg has sent in this wonderful photograph of a deer sleeping in the TopVeg garden – having had its fill of everything green in the garden! What a magnificent animal and well done [...]

Photograph Of The Month Competition – June 2009

sara | June 2, 2009

If you like taking photographs then why not enter our Farming Friends ‘Foto’ Of The Month Competition.
The photographs need to have a farming theme and can include the farming landscape, farm animals, farm machinery, farming life or nature and wildlife on and around a farm or the countryside both from the UK and abroad.
If you [...]

BBC Countryfile Photographic Competition 2009

sara | May 11, 2009

I was watching Countryfile last night and thought that I might like to enter their photographic competition this year. The theme for 2009 is Wild and Wonderful. The subject matter could be wildlife or landscape, but the photograph must have the Great British countryside at it’s heart.
I am going to have a look at all [...]

Farming Friends Photograph Caption Competition May 2009

sara | May 2, 2009

Farming Friends ‘Foto’ Caption Competition
Can you think of a good caption to accompany the Farming Friends ‘Foto’?

If so, fill out the comments box with your caption and your name.
This competition is just a bit of Farming Friends fun!
The winning caption will be announced at the beginning of the following month.

Farming Friends Photograph Caption Competition April 2009 Winner

sara | May 1, 2009

Farming Friends ‘Foto’ Caption Competition Winner April 2009

I am delighted to announce that TopVeg sent in the winning caption, so well done TopVeg.
“Where has the driver gone now?”
Thanks also to Elizabeth for her caption: “You can’t get me up here, there’s two of us, to scare you away!”
Check out this months Photograph Competitions.

Photograph Of The Month Competition – Entry 3 & 4 For August 2008

sara | August 15, 2008

TopVeg have sent two pictures for the Farming Friends Foto of the Month Competition, so thanks TopVeg.
I saw these onions, just hanging in an open shed belonging to a 92 year old veg gardener.  I like the shiny, new fresh onions hanging on old strings against very old wooden walls, on top of his collection of old [...]

Photograph Of The Month Competition – Entry 2 For August 2008

sara | August 12, 2008

Jane from Urban Extension, has sent a picture of a a ringlet butterfly for the Farming Friends Foto of the Month Competition, so thanks Jane.
This is a picture I took on a friend of mine’s smallholding in Verwood, Dorset of a small Ringlet Butterfly on a Bramble Flower. I love the way it’s proboscis is curled up and it’s wings [...]

December’s Photograph Of The Month Competition Winner

sara | January 13, 2008

The winner of the Farming Friends “Foto” of the Month Competition for December is Jane, so well done Jane a gift will be on it’s way to you very soon.
Winter Fungi
Jane from Urban Extension took this photograph of some gorgeous fungi taken in December 2007 in a local wood in Corfe Mullen, Dorset. Jane said, “I just loved the [...]

Photograph Of The Month Competition -2008’s Second Entry

sara | January 12, 2008

Marian has sent me the second entry for the Farming Friends Photograph Of the Month Competition for 2008, so thanks Marian.
Marian saw these Lambs earlier in the week. Marian said,  “I don’t know when they were born,  but they look to be growing up very fast, just look at the size of them!.  I don’t know what was in [...]

Photograph Of The Month Competition – Entry Number 1 Of 2008

sara | January 6, 2008

TopVeg have sent me the first entry for the Farming Friends Photograph Of the Month Competition for 2008, so thanks TopVeg.
TopVeg grow a wide variety of unusual vegetables and this Chinese Mantanghon Winter Radish looks a real unusual beauty.
If you like taking photographs then why not enter our Farming Friends ‘Foto’ Of The Month Competition.
The [...]