The Final Diary Entry - The Accidental Smallholder

Posted: Monday 3 November, 2025

by Rosemary at 6:13pm in Smallholding 1 comment Add your own

After over two decades, this will be the last diary post on The Accidental Smallholder.

Dan and I started this blog in 2003, three years into our smallholding life, and made it part of our website The internet was in its early days and social media didn’t exist, as it does today. Both of us contributed to the diary in the early days; later it became my baby, and a pretty much weekly routine.

In 2007, the forums were added to the website. Over the years, TASers (careful with the capitals) have shared their ups and downs, asked and answered questions and engaged in some robust discussion. We produced TAS T-shirts and badges with a very nifty design; there were local TAS meets. Social media, sadly, has diminished the forum activity but there is still a huge reservoir of information held there, and it will remain meantime.

Now that we have sold the cattle and the sheep, given up pig rearing and are now owners of just seven hens, we can no longer claim to be Accidental Smallholders – more deliberate retirees. So apart from reminding us of when we carried out some garden tasks, the diary doesn’t offer anything much to smallholders any more.

So time to retire it too. It’s been a blast.

Wishing smallholders everywhere all the very best,

Rosemary & Dan