If you are into or want to try things like sausage making, bacon curing, cheese making, home-brewing, etc. please take a look at this site:
My link it is a very friendly, and nice British countryside/smallholder/down-sizer/good-lifer forum that I belong to. You will find many wonderful step-by-step photo recipes on there (a lot of them done by me), along with many good threads and posst regarding : Gardens, Allotments, Poultry keeping, Pets, and other interesting projects (and lots of photos of me doing my thing in the Cargo Cycles workshop).