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Community => Introduce yourself => Topic started by: Mamagoose on February 28, 2011, 11:54:16 am

Title: Hello from France
Post by: Mamagoose on February 28, 2011, 11:54:16 am

Hi, Just stumbled upon your forum "accidently"...  We live in the South of France in the Pyrenees and for the last 3 years, have been trying to establish an organic smallholding, although in the last 10 months we've been looking into Permaculture.  At the moment we only have some raised beds, a polytunnel and a handful of chooks.  Next week, we are going to look for a working Pyrenean donkey and a shire horse.  I am quite excited to have found this pool of knowledge.  Hope to speak to a lot of you soon.

Title: Re: Hello from France
Post by: Hilarysmum on February 28, 2011, 12:35:15 pm

Welcome from Brittany, where we raise pigs and chickens for meat and sale.  We flirted with bio but found the costs just to register plus the on-going certification and almost trebled feed prices too high a price to pay.  We were given loads and advice and support from this site.

Title: Re: Hello from France
Post by: Rosemary on February 28, 2011, 01:43:50 pm

Hi and welcome from sunny Carnoustie  :wave:

Title: Re: Hello from France
Post by: Mamagoose on February 28, 2011, 05:57:30 pm

Thank you for the welcome.  Hilarysmum, if you are in Brittany you surely must know the bureaucracy nightmare! Hi, Rosemary, I'm sorry to say I had to look on the map to know where Carnoustie lies.

Title: Re: Hello from France
Post by: faith0504 on February 28, 2011, 06:25:12 pm

hi and welcome from spring has sprung moray  :wave:

Title: Re: Hello from France
Post by: Hilarysmum on February 28, 2011, 06:47:34 pm

Quote from: Mamagoose on February 28, 2011, 05:57:30 pm

  Hilarysmum, if you are in Brittany you surely must know the bureaucracy nightmare!

Hanging myself with the red tape as I type ..........  forms, forms forms then they lose them, or send them back or send them to the wrong department and it all starts  over again ...

Title: Re: Hello from France
Post by: Mamagoose on February 28, 2011, 09:48:03 pm

"Hanging myself with the red tape as I type ...."  I haven't tried that yet, but I haven't got many hair left!

Title: Re: Hello from France
Post by: Cinderhills on February 28, 2011, 10:05:57 pm

Hi and welcome from North Yorkshire.  :wave:

Title: Re: Hello from France
Post by: Hilarysmum on March 01, 2011, 08:37:56 am

French bureaucracy the truly bleak side of living in France.

Title: Re: Hello from France
Post by: chrispy4949 on March 01, 2011, 09:06:40 am

Hi welcome from Bulgaria . Good luck . chrispy  :wave:

Title: Re: Hello from France
Post by: darkbrowneggs on March 04, 2011, 11:05:44 am

Hi there amd welcome  from Sue in the Midlands - wish I was somewhere a bit further south today :wave:

Title: Re: Hello from France
Post by: Hilarysmum on March 06, 2011, 08:41:04 am

I'm further south and its blooming freeeeeeeezing