The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Introduce yourself => Topic started by: Wannabe Escapee on June 29, 2021, 03:22:37 pm
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Hi,
I'm a 52 year old counting down the years till I'm 55 and will have paid the mortgage, my boy leaves school and I can take voluntary early retirement and then join you lovely guys living the dream with my family.
I'm hoping to buy a max 3acre plot for predominantly vegatables and the inevitable odd hen and what not.
I hope that needing an income won't be necessary (we don't spend much anyway) and that an honesty box would provide beer money.
So is it a small holding or big allotment? At this stage I don't know. What I do know is that for £200k I can get something in Wales or the North East of England so I have joined the site for potential hazards and trip falls before taking the plunge.
Look forward to reading as much content as I can.
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Hello and welcome to TAS :wave:
If you don't need to make cash money, then you're in a good position. You can produce an awful lot of your own food. You will need cash though - pigs and poultry will need bought in food.
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Hi and welcome to the forum from sunny Shropshire :sunshine: I'm not sure where Rosemary got the pigs from because I only saw a reference to 'the odd hen'. but three acres is a good size smallholding. My smallholding is a reasonable sized garden where I grow fruit and veg and did keep goats.
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I'm not sure where Rosemary got the pigs from because I only saw a reference to 'the odd hen'.
I got it from knowing smallholders for a couple of decades and clocking the "and what not" that followed "the inevitable odd hen". :innocent: