The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Introduce yourself => Topic started by: dduxbury on August 19, 2011, 07:02:27 pm
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Hi, I'm Dave from Lancashire, not yet a small holder but am seriously thinking about it. I love reading about the exploits of different people and am learning from all of your mistakes and advice, thankyou all very much. I have been thinking about it even more lately, I grow my own veg and fruit at the moment but because we still live in a local authority house I am not allowed to keep animals. Please keep writing in I do love reading all your trials and tribulations and more so your success stories, good luck to you all
Dave
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hi and welcome from moray :wave:, our dream came true im sure yours will too :wave:
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Hi, Dave and welcome :wave: from Carnoustie
Good luck with your ambitions! :pig: :chook: :cow: :goat: :sheep: :&>
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Hi from the New Forest sometimes reading the trials and tribulations of our gallant smallholders is a lot more fun than actually experiencing it for real. i am sure your fruit and veg give you just as much trouble and strife as our four legged friends do, so join in share that knowledge with us. :wave:
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Hello from Derbyshire.
We started with a little cottage, and just a third of an acre, and rented a field for the ponies we had at the time......We managed to buy the field, and our one goat and a few hens is now 16 goats and 8o hens (plus a lot of other animals)
Smallholding can be just that - small!! I am sure growing your fruit and veg gives you a sense of achievement.
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thanks for all your encouragement, yes I do enjoy growing my own fruit and veg and like some of you, yes, I have had my up's and down's.
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have you thought of asking your local farmer about renting a field, we rent a small field and keep some lambs in it its about 5 miles away. You could maybe kept hens its pretty easy to keep them. i'm lucky i have 5 acres of land we bought we got lola from a housing estate she was a bully, the lady kept 6 hens lola has settled down and has met her match lol. seen on telly hugh fernley whittingsal has a land scheme maybe someone near you might be on it and might have a large garden on countryfile young lad started keeping sheep in a friends garden he moved on to renting land might be an option good luck i'm loving having animals got a pig to fatten too hopefully i will be fine when its time to say bye. hope this has maybe given you some ideas jane
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Its such a shame that you cant even keep a few chooks in an enclosed run. They dont make much noise, nor do they smell...much! I really hope that you manage to fulfill your dream very soon.
Mary.