The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Introduce yourself => Topic started by: naynay on October 05, 2013, 05:08:48 pm
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hi folks
I live in Liverpool, not on a smallholding - just a back yard - but interested to know all about the lifestyle and does it really matter if your the wrong side of 50 to change your lifestyle at all?! :farmer:
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im still south of 50 by a margin, but my total holding is 8 chickens in a garden...
welcome from central scotland!!!
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Hi naynay (lovely name!)
I'm also the "wrong" side of 50 (but who decides what is wrong?), and I also only have a small garden...
Welcome from Aberdeenshire! :wave:
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HI there from Moray
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I don't think it matters a jot!
You just tailor the changes you make to the things that are important to you and that you enjoy.
I can't think of a better time to take the leap than whenever it feels right. For me it was following the death of my mother in law, who I had thought eternal - it gave me the jolt to just go and do what I wanted to, something like that can trigger a change at any age. :thumbsup:
I hope you enjoy the forum
Welcome from near Aboyne, Aberdeenshire :wave:
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Hi and welcome , I don't think that it matters what age you are, I am now the wrong side of 60 and have no intentions of giving up my dream.
I am sure that I will be able to get someone to put hooks to hang buckets etc on my Zimmer frame when I need it ;D
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:wave: and welcome from :sunshine: Shropshire. I'm another back garden smallholder with goats so I have a battle to keep them off the fruit and veg. ;D
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Hello and welcome from Carnoustie :wave:
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I didn't start until 58 with animals, but I've grown veg for years and years and years and..........
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Go for it :excited: - George Elliot wrote years ago
It's never too late to be what you might have been
Got that one pinned up inside my kitchen cupboard
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such positivity..love it :excited:
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Hello there, I'm a newbie too - we moved here to our smallholding just last year and since then we've both moved to the other side of 50 and in fact we've had new neighbours move in to do the same and they're 71 and 60 8)
Lisa
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in my ideal smallholding I would have goats for milk and cheese, some veg, some hens for eggs....do all my own baking...not have to go out to work so I would have the energy to do all of that..... get off the world and slow down.. :have a small orchard too maybe...well you never know what is round the corner. I grew some veg in pots this year..tomatoes were a disaster, so were the beetroot. carrots were edible and courgettes were the best. green peppers bitter.... livestock a greyhound and 2 goldfish. sadly my 2 bunnies passed away :farmer:
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Hi and welcome :wave: I am approaching the big 60 and have only had my smallholding for just over 18 months. I now have chickens geese, ducks and 8 sheep as well as a dog and cat. Life doesn't get much better than that ;D
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:wave: from up here in Tayside.
Your never too young or too old to start doing something that you want to do.
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:wave: hello and welcome from Durham
I've been looking for a smallholding for 2 years, still searching for the right place to fit around family life. At this rate I'll be retired when I do find somewhere. In the meantime I'm enjoying growing fruit and veg on allotments with our chooks.
Your never too old to learn and life is just beginning at 50 or so I'm told ;D so go for it.
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I'm just 50 and have only just changed my lifestyle from being a civil servant in the NW of England to being a crofter. I'd say you still have many good years to look back and say you are glad you took the plunge. You are never too old but I guess the work sometimes may feel a bit harder!
Good luck from the Isle of Skye
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that's a big difference...civil service to crofting on Skye!! Mind you I work in homelessness and live in the city so I guess anything is a big difference really. Think I'll have to do some courses before I make any big changes..fit them in around me and my dog good luck with the crofting anyway :wave:
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