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Community => Introduce yourself => Topic started by: bluejules on November 20, 2012, 10:14:56 am

Title: Greetings from Lancashire!
Post by: bluejules on November 20, 2012, 10:14:56 am

Hello everyone, by way of an introduction - me and the other half have kept horses and chickens at home for five years but we've just started (last month) leasing a nine-acre smallholding from our neighbour. We've got a small flock of beautiful Balwen sheep and a couple of Saanen goats, plus geese, and we're planning to get some Gloucester Old Spot weaners in the spring! OH has recently done a beekeeping course and a couple of hives may also be on the agenda in June.
I'm working full time as an education consultant but OH is pretty much full time on the smallholding.

It's going really well but I'm finding it hard to get advice from actual smallholders as the other forum I go on is really just about equine stuff and I'm getting a lot of conflicting advice! So I'm hoping that the wonderful folks on here will be able to help us along the way.

Title: Re: Greetings from Lancashire!
Post by: SallyintNorth on November 20, 2012, 10:25:32 am

Welcome to the friendliest helpfullesst smallholder forum around!  :wave:

Which is not to say we won't sometimes give conflicting advice, too  ::)  but hopefully you can usually work out what's what  :)

Title: Re: Greetings from Lancashire!
Post by: Fowgill Farm on November 20, 2012, 10:42:20 am

Welcome from ye auld enemy Yorkshire
GOS weaners in spring Yay :thumbsup:
mandy :pig:

Title: Re: Greetings from Lancashire!
Post by: Rosemary on November 20, 2012, 11:24:01 am

hello and welcome from  :gloomy: Carnoustie  :wave:

Title: Re: Greetings from Lancashire!
Post by: bluejules on November 20, 2012, 11:53:58 am

Thanks everyone! What a fantastically friendly bunch and it's not even midday yet!

Although judging from the replies to my posting about planning permission I don't think we'll be smallholders for much longer....

Title: Re: Greetings from Lancashire!
Post by: Bert on November 20, 2012, 12:08:41 pm

Hi from the Isle of Mull :wave:

Title: Re: Greetings from Lancashire!
Post by: HelenVF on November 20, 2012, 12:38:55 pm

Welcome from Lamcashire :D.

Helen

Title: Re: Greetings from Lancashire!
Post by: jaykay on November 20, 2012, 12:42:30 pm

Hi from  :gloomy: Cumbria  :wave:
And fingers crossed about the smallholding.

Title: Re: Greetings from Lancashire!
Post by: Lesley Silvester on November 20, 2012, 09:08:13 pm

 :wave: Hi and welcome from not so sunny Shropshire.  I keep Sanaans.   :goat: :goat: :goat:

Title: Re: Greetings from Lancashire!
Post by: The Mobile Butcher on November 20, 2012, 10:13:55 pm

Hi
From Whitby - North Yorkshire  :wave:

Title: Re: Greetings from Lancashire!
Post by: darkbrowneggs on November 24, 2012, 04:35:08 pm

Hi there and welcome  :wave:  from wet wet wet Worcestershire  :raining:

Title: Re: Greetings from Lancashire!
Post by: Mammyshaz on November 25, 2012, 12:06:54 am

Hello and welcome from a hailstoning Durham  :raining: