The Accidental Smallholder Forum - Index

Messages from the forum admins and from TAS

Tell the other forum members a little bit about yourself.

Feel free to talk about anything and everything in this board.

Use this forum to offer stuff for sale, post wanted notices, setup swaps or give stuff away. Please read the sticky post before using this forum.

Everything to do with keeping poultry of all kinds.

All about keeping pigs: breeds, feeding, ailments, breeding etc.

For discussion of our wooly friends.

We're the proud owners of two Shetland heifers at TAS, so this is where we can pick your brains if you know anything about keeping cattle. And feel free to ask questions if you don't!

For all of our goatkeepers, aspiring goatkeepers and goat lovers.

For apiary and all bee-related subjects

All about breeding and keeping alpacas, llamas, vicunas, camels, dromedaries and any other camelids

For the discussion of all other livestock.

All about growing veg.

Those plants that smell great, taste great, have medicinal properties, and sometimes all three.

Soft, pome, stone, tree, bush - if it's fruit, discuss it here.

Got a plant growing and don't know what it is? Someone here probably does, so post a photograph and we'll all do our best to help.

It's not all work work work. This board is for the discussion of the gentle art of gardening.

All about managing your pasture, woodland, wildlife margins and other areas to best effect.

We all want to promote wildlife and biodiversity on our holdings, use this board to discuss and ask questions about how that's best done.

For discussion of renewable energy sources, heating, power generation and all that entails.

We're thinking things like grazing management, fencing, hedgerows, soil management, composting and so on.

Need to know how to use something, or what's the best tool for the job? This is the place to ask.

For the discussion of the maintenance, building, renovation and improvement of houses, outbuildings, steadings, barns and other buildings.

Matters relating to all things equine (it's the horse forum)

For talking about domestic and working dogs

For our feline friends and those who love them

For all your recipe requests and ideas.

Don't know what to do with that pig you've got back from the abattoir, or the hundred weight of plums you've just cropped? This is the place for you.

The production of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, including wine, beer, (legal) spirits, soft drinks or anything else that can be imbibed.

Anything to do with crafts, noble or otherwise.

For TASers who want to lose a few pounds and get a bit fitter

For single smallholders and those who might like to meet single smallholders.