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Community => Introduce yourself => Topic started by: homegrown on June 17, 2012, 01:02:26 pm

Title: Also New to the Forum
Post by: homegrown on June 17, 2012, 01:02:26 pm

Hi everyone our names are Andrew & Julie and we are currently living in HIghamFerrers, Northants with our two children Oliver & Maisie but hoping to move back to Cambridgeshire in the near future to start our own small-holding.  We have been looking for approx. 2 years for the right piece of land and are still looking!!!  We have a large plot where we currently liveand grow all our own fruit & veg and have 10 chickens, a barn owl, 2 cats and varioius other indoor animals.  We are part of the Fenland Goat & Smallholders Association (which is fantastic, very welcoming, great people with a wealth of knowledge).

We have just started our own business making homemade sausages and are currently sourcing our meat wholesale from Cash & Carry (half a pig at a time).  The business has taken off and we are now looking to purchase pigs to take to slaughter.  I have placed a forum question regarding a CPH no if anyone can help me.

Thanks for reading.

Title: Re: Also New to the Forum
Post by: Dan on June 17, 2012, 01:55:05 pm

Hello, and welcome to the forum from a drizzly Carnoustie. :)

Title: Re: Also New to the Forum
Post by: Fowlman on June 17, 2012, 02:15:00 pm

Welcome from sunny wiltshire.  :wave:

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Post by: Rosemary on June 17, 2012, 02:27:07 pm

Hello and welcome from overcast Carnoustie  :wave:

Title: Re: Also New to the Forum
Post by: Dans on June 17, 2012, 02:28:23 pm

Welcome from a grey (but dry!) Midlothian!

Dans

Title: Re: Also New to the Forum
Post by: plumseverywhere on June 17, 2012, 04:54:24 pm

Welcome from Worcestershire (wet, windy, slippery and grey!) where we keep  :cat: :chook: :goat: :sheep: :bunny:  and 4 noisy children


Wow! a barn owl? Dan's going to need a new emoticon I think!


Lisa

Title: Re: Also New to the Forum
Post by: Lesley Silvester on June 17, 2012, 05:03:34 pm

 :wave:  Hi and welcome from an overcast Shropshire.  I am a backgarden smallholder with three goats, fruit trees ad veggies.

Title: Re: Also New to the Forum
Post by: peartreewoodlandsmallholding on June 17, 2012, 10:30:03 pm

hello & welcome. wishing you all the best from sunny staffordshire.....

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Post by: Mammyshaz on June 17, 2012, 11:30:51 pm

Hello and welcome from a very wet and windy Durham  :wave:

Title: Re: Also New to the Forum
Post by: Possum on June 18, 2012, 08:20:31 am

Hello and welcome from a sunny Somerset. Good luck with your search for a smallholding. :fc:
 Let us know how you get on.

Title: Re: Also New to the Forum
Post by: Ladygrey on June 18, 2012, 09:09:08 pm

Hi Andy and Julie  :wave: nice to meet you :)

Title: Re: Also New to the Forum
Post by: Bert on June 19, 2012, 07:10:56 am

Hi from the Isle of Mull  :wave:

Title: Re: Also New to the Forum
Post by: embo on June 20, 2012, 07:23:58 am

Hello, I was just down the road in Titchmarsh, until about 10 days ago!

Title: Re: Also New to the Forum
Post by: YorkshireLass on June 20, 2012, 09:52:12 pm

Hello from down the road the other way  ;D :wave:

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Post by: Small Farmer on June 20, 2012, 11:46:31 pm

...and indeed from Bedfordshire

Title: Re: Also New to the Forum
Post by: chickenfeed on June 21, 2012, 02:47:56 pm

 :wave: hello from the fens of cambridgeshire