The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Shropshirelass on June 14, 2014, 09:27:56 am
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So come on what would be on your smallholding wish lists that you'd like to purchase or be treated to in the next year. I've put mine below some of which might take a very long time to get but the 1s at the top are realistic:
small 4x4 (or at least a towbar & trailer set up on my car - the 4x4 wouldn't be used that often & more just for farm work so it shouldn't be too expensive to run)
Cider press
More poultry in small numbers
More poultry runs
Another dog - (This time a terrier type)
New waterproof trousers - If I don't find the old ones
Couple of horses (when I have the time & money)
Bit of Land with outbuildings attached
Small flock of sheep of my own
Now it's your turn xx
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no.1 a smallholding :excited:
failing that my realistic list is,
my first sheep on rented grazing,
my first bee's
finally setting up a pure breed pen of chickens inc cockerel so i can breed my own...
my first proper veg patch...
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Some more land
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No.1 import some more buffalo heifers, in calf, for mozzarella production this year.
No.2 Build a bigger garden to grow more veg.
No.3 Finish the wildflower and herb patches, so I can buy in some bees.
No.4 Buy in a good ram from Ruthin or Builth, as I need to get rid of the old one.
No.5 Buy a new tractor, 4x4 and a few other farming pieces of machinery.
Good I think thats my list finished now. :relief:
:thinking: :thinking: :thinking: :thinking: :thinking:
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a tractor, trailer, topper, harrow. failing that a quad version of the same.
finish the fencing, create a cattle race/crush etc.
a landy with a cattle trailer.
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A smallholding in the middle of nowhere with a long unmade up road to access it. One where I could keep cats without worrying about them being run over.
I'd like a huge barn, segmented areas within for lambing and kidding. An indoor milking area.
Apart from that I'm ok with what I have really ;)
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Oooh - in order of priority:
- Landscaping the back part of the house (we are part-way there)
- A machine shed
- A long arm quilting sewing machine
- Router and router table
- Fancy kitty dual powered drum carding machine
- A brute of a quad bike that can tow things behind it
- Sheep shelters in the top field paddocks
- Workshop planer/thicknesser
- Another big chicken house
- A band saw
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Turn back the clock 25 years so I still had the energy that I had in my 30's :roflanim: :roflanim: :roflanim: . I can have all the kit in the world but I'm too :tired: :tired: to use it!
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I like wish lists :-)
- A cure for ME
- A windfall that would allow me to buy the 13 acres and barn opposite that are for sale.
- More Polled Dorset Ewes
- Larger Hay Barn
- Log Splitter
- Scaffolding to make cage over veg garden
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More Land.
More Sheep.
More Time.
More Money.
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Not so much a wish list , as next on the list , but here are a few ;
a couple of goats for milk ,
a dozen chickens for eggs ,
some bunnies for meat ,
a couple of pigs for raising weaners for meat and to sell ,
some sheep for meat and wool ,
either a big cob or a shire horse for working the land ,
a new body , the old one is buggered !
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A hit man
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I've got a longbow !
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Want :cow: :pig: :goat:
Already have :cat: :chook: :dog:
Not allowed :sheep: :bunny:
Need to have baby then see what I can cope with looking after. Need field shelters, more proper chicken pens, raised veg beds, many things.
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I've got a longbow !
Do you have a good aim?
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Lol , yep , just give me a name , no one will know .
I have very reasonable rates , it is 'bogof' atm too .
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A couple of clones of myself and Mr Fleecewife, but with the bits which have broken down replaced.
If that's not possible, a couple of slaves who do as they're asked - that's not possible either.
In the main I'm happy with what we have already :yippee: :yippee: :yippee: :garden: :hugsheep: :chook: :dog: :dog: :sunshine: me and him, and offspring well set up.
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Lol , yep , just give me a name , no one will know .
I have very reasonable rates , it is 'bogof' atm too .
Don't tempt me :thinking:
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Lol , it can be tempting at times can't it mate .
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Don't really want more just to be able to manage what I've got and have my place tidy.
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1. A cure for my disability
2. A husband who thinks a smallholding is a brilliant idea - ideally the same OH but with a change of mndset
3. A smallholding with a lovely cottage and lots of outbuildings
4. Chickens
5. Sheep
6. Pigs
7.Bees
8. The money to be able to run it all
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A smallholding so I can have a wish list :sunshine:
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1) To get all the fencing finished
2) A way to stop the hares destroying all the new trees i have just planted
3) a flail mower
4) a couple of Shetland cows
5) another tractor
6) haymaking equiment
7) a cow shed
8) another tractor
9) a reduction in the plague of pheasants
10) another shed to keep all the tractors in.
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A very large cattle court style barn so I can save at least some of my ground and with any luck my body from further winter damage while providing optional dry standing for the stock. And a fixed haybarn with a roof that doesn't leak, an extension roof that is back on after 4 years, some yorkshire boarding would be nice..
Tractor with a bale spike, dung graip and digger bucket at least
An income from writing or something I can do here anyway, to support all the above
Above all, my health and fitness back, but sadly that one is more than wishlist, it's miracle list ::)
More likely I should wish for an alternative lifestyle without the land/stock, but with a regular income not dependent on physical capacity or mental endurance ::) Just finding it hard to change the mindset :(
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A big barn with an actual roof :thumbsup:
More land
A digger
A body that isn't wrecked
I'm off in LaLa land here ::)
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A lovely barn so that we can breed from our gorgeous Jacob sheep - somewhere safe for them to lamb!
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this year, once everything is signed..get the goats in…stock fence as many paddocks, get the chooks, ducks geese, sorted,
then next year..get the sheep, pigs and calfs in …may get them in earlier, depending how we get on :excited: :excited:
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1 suitable housing to keep a couple of dexters
2) a couple of dexters
3) several million tons of earth to iron out the steep slope
4) an old tractor
5) 48 hour days
6) slugs to become extinct
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5) 48 hour days
6) slugs to become extinct
love those 2 options...
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Ducks do a pretty good job on slug extinction! ... no probs in my veg garden this year..
Wish list .... :thinking:
1) a flat area to build a barn!
2) the barn
3) a tractor with 'kit'
4) the polytunnel to be erected and full of veg .. rather than being a kit in the shed!
5) the cows to be pregnant
6) no more new springs to appear ... just when you think you have the wet bits mapped!
7) grass to out complete rushes!!
.... and the :sunshine: to continue ...
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just acquired a 7th one: (likely to double up as a rant)
7 NO NEIGHBOURS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My neighbours are lovely as a rule and not sure this isn't partly me descending into total social isolationism and bad tempered old sod mode- but nonetheless
Took this week off work to try to tackle the fairly major ongoing restoration of our garden involving much wall building and slab laying. Brother in law and family descends for the first 3 days without warning- spends 3 days giving me much needed instruction despite the fact that the last time he indulged in anything approaching physical work the old king was probably still on the throne. despite his considerable verbal expertise seemed congenitally incapable of keeping his pesky kids off my new laid slabs so gave it up as a bad job till he'd gone.
At last yesterday morning a free run at it- oh no- neighbours drains have collapsed under our lane- spent all of the morning bailing buckets and buckets of guess what, dismantled our fence and rebuilt it so he could get digger in and eventually got to patio building at about lunchtime. spent all afternoon in baking sun mixing cement and hauling concrete slabs- kept my dogs tied up out the way to avoid any accidents. just finished when another neighbour ( who shares the drain in question but despite having the day off work took his kids to the beach while I spent hours covered in his families' sh*t) appears with his hoofing great hound- all over the slabs just laid (dog and neighbour, despite their being plastic sheeting all over it and barricades all round it). By this morning several slabs have been knocked askew and have got to take them up and do it again.
Not finished yet. needed to move a couple of sheep with lambs down to a fresh bit of ground at the end of our lane- normally our sheep are easy to move around but this morning with the lambs being a bit all over the place they were playing silly buggers. eventually got them going the right way while my other neighbour watched me get hot and sweaty- and then, just as they got near him, within 10 feet., he starts up his bloody drill- cue swift about turn and all galloped headlong back past me and up the lane to where they'd just come from and back into the field. oh I can swear !!!!!- bucket still where I threw it and sheep not where I wanted them- BLOODY PEOPLE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 that's slightly better !
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Mair coos :hugcow:
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Devonlad, it sounds like you are a better neighbour than they are.
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thanks MGoM- you're right ;D
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Energy.
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Immunity from prosecution
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My wishlist would include a large and already prepared for planting large fruit and vegetable area that would remain free of slugs and snails forever. Maybe then some bees that would never chase or sting me and a wildlife pond. Failing that perhaps an extra weekend mid-week?
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More time and energy to do everthing and that my OH loved :dog: as much as me.