Helen Babbs
Journalist and smallholder
Helen Babbs is a freelance journalist specialising in gardening, smallholding and rural living. She has a BSc (Hons) in Environmental Studies, an RHS Certificate in Horticulture and runs a 1.5 acre smallholding in rural West Wales.
Helen's work features regularly in a range of national magazines, including LandScape, The Country Smallholder and Sheep Breeder.
Contact via: email at [email protected] or mobile at +44 07396 178480.
Recent
Tough Grazers Of The Snowy Peaks
On the unforgiving high land of North Wales, the hardy and spirited Welsh Mountain sheep breed has survived and thrived for centuries…
(LandScape, January 2023) View PDF.
All About Crofts
Helen Babbs finds out about these uniquely Scottish smallholdings…
(The Country Smallholder, January 2023) View PDF.
Growing Christmas Kisses
Helen Babbs visits the mistletoe orchards of Commonwood Farm…
(The Country Smallholder, December 2022) View PDF.
Smallholding Profile: Moorend Moisturisers
Helen Babbs meets the Norfolk smallholder who turns her goats’ milk into a popular range of luxurious moisturisers, soaps and more…
(The Smallholder, May/June 2022) View PDF.
Speckled Friends In The Farmyard
With its distinctive plum pudding markings, traditional cottagers’ pig the Oxford Sandy and Black is both delightful to behold and a contented, docile animal to keep…
(LandScape, March 2022) View PDF.
Crazy For Crafts
In an ordinary back garden and single paddock near Kidderminster Kay Dalloway has created both a thriving smallholding and a successful fibre business…
(Country Smallholding, November 2020) View PDF.