Welcome
Ponies on the smallholding
A one-day course and demonstration on 25th September 2010 to help you prepare your pony for work:
Smallholding for sale
Longcarse Farm Cottage, home of TAS for 10 years, is for sale. It's a very reluctant sale, but we're moving to a property with more land. Full details can be found by following the link below:
Welcome to the Accidental Smallholder. We are Rosemary and Dan Champion. This site offers encouragement and advice to people who, like us, are seeking to become more self-sufficient, enjoy growing vegetables, fruit and gardening, and are maybe thinking of keeping animals for food production. We don't have a definition of "smallholder" and perhaps the use of the term gives more weight to what we do than it deserves, but whatever - we find it fun, satisfying and healthy, and hope you will too.
On the site you'll find an ever-expanding body of information:
- the diary is updated frequently with notes about what we're doing at the moment, and any interesting links or news stories we come across.
- the articles are short pieces we've produced, grouped into loose subject areas.
- our forums can be used to ask questions, join in discussion or to share your own experiences and hints and tips.
- in the About Us section you can learn more about how we arrived here and gradually got sucked into the world of smallholding.
- the gallery contains photographs from around our own smallholding in central Scotland.
We love to receive feedback and correspondence from other smallholders and those interested in smallholding. Feel free to contact us with any questions, observations or to put us right! Everything we write here is based on our own experiences, but that doesn't mean we know what we're doing all the time!