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Title: Cornwall again
Post by: Ganderbox on April 05, 2012, 08:58:48 am
Hello  :wave:

I've just signed up to the forum. I've lived on a (sort of) smallholding up on Bodmin Moor for over 12 years and kept poultry and attempted (with varying degrees of success) to grow veg. The most productive part has been our wind turbine!
I found this site while searching for some advice about what to do about the field/paddock/area of grass where my poultry have lived all that time and is now in a bit of a mess. It's not so much what the chickens have done as the mice, or voles, or whatever, which have turned my field into a colander!
I'm off now to browse the land management section of the forum and maybe post a question.
Looking forward to chatting with you.
Pauline
 
Title: Re: Cornwall again
Post by: Rosemary on April 05, 2012, 10:55:47 am
Hello and welcome from Carnoustie :wave:
Title: Re: Cornwall again
Post by: chairmanphil on April 05, 2012, 11:33:15 am
hey, welcome to TAS. i have a friend on Bodmin. he lives at Taymar view farm. not surprised the wind turbine is doing so well! hope you like it here!  :wave:
Title: Re: Cornwall again
Post by: benkt on April 05, 2012, 11:46:11 am
Welcome! I grew up in St Austell although now based up in cambridgeshire my folks are still back in cornwall nr lanhydrock and I love my increasingly rare visits down there. Good luck.
Title: Re: Cornwall again
Post by: JulieS on April 05, 2012, 11:56:08 am
Hello and welcome from Devon  :)
Title: Re: Cornwall again
Post by: Fleecewife on April 05, 2012, 12:21:52 pm
Hello from 1000' up in southern Scotland  :wave:  It gets a bit blowy up here too  ;D   We manage to grow vegetables and fruit, hens and sheep (Hebrideans).  We did also have pigs and ducks but no longer  :(
Title: Re: Cornwall again
Post by: Mammyshaz on April 05, 2012, 12:47:47 pm
Hello from Durham  :wave:
We dabble in fruit and veg a bit and keep a couple of hens on our allotment

Title: Re: Cornwall again
Post by: treluckey on April 05, 2012, 01:35:32 pm
Bodmin is close by and I frequently walk the moors. I'd like to know about your turbine out of interest. No wind where we are, we get the frost - if one doesn't get you, the other one will!
Title: Re: Cornwall again
Post by: Sylvia on April 05, 2012, 03:47:17 pm
Hello, I hail from Cadgwith, nearly a foreign land to Bodmin :D Are you up on the moor?
Title: Re: Cornwall again
Post by: Bert on April 05, 2012, 05:01:07 pm
Hi from the Isle of Mull :wave:
Title: Re: Cornwall again
Post by: deepinthewoods on April 05, 2012, 05:33:11 pm
hi from zelah! :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Cornwall again
Post by: Sudanpan on April 05, 2012, 05:43:35 pm
Hi from t'other end of Kernow  :wave: :wave:
Title: Re: Cornwall again
Post by: Mel on April 05, 2012, 09:22:32 pm
Hi and welcome from Northants,we wish you good luck ;D :wave: :wave:
Title: Re: Cornwall again
Post by: Lesley Silvester on April 05, 2012, 11:57:54 pm
 :wave:  Hi and welcome from sunny Shropshire.  I love Cornwall.
Title: Re: Cornwall again
Post by: in the hills on April 06, 2012, 07:07:05 am
Hello and welcome from a very chilly Powys. :wave:
Title: Re: Cornwall again
Post by: speedywheelz on April 06, 2012, 07:04:37 pm
Hi from Norfolk, Im from cornwall near stithians and know Bodmin well, glad its still there as have not been back for some years now.  :wave: