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Community => Introduce yourself => Topic started by: rkardo on February 11, 2014, 10:25:51 pm

Title: Hello!!!!
Post by: rkardo on February 11, 2014, 10:25:51 pm

I'm not a farmer really, just a wannabe, still I was born in Portugal a few years ago (let's not get tangled in arithmetic's) into a family where booth grandparents were smallholders back in the day were in Portugal big supermarkets were only to buy what could not be produced at home.
Because my mums parents were of a more serious type of smallholders renting a fairly big amount of land for someone who didn't consider agriculture as their main source of income I end up by growing up farming in the veg garden, on the arable land and attending to animals, I can recall there were times when 2 sows would be having litters at same time and there were also a minimum of 2 cows (working cows) and more often than not there would be 6 cows plus calves.
Poultry was grandmother and my mother's thing many kinds of birds and usually a flock too big to remember
Now I moved away from it a bit over 10 years ago and became a city dweller but now well now I would like to return but can't
Except if anyone has a small farm or smallholding unattended and wants to rent it at an affordable (a.k.a cheap) price then I can start living the life

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Post by: Lesley Silvester on February 11, 2014, 11:59:16 pm

 :wave: and welcome from Shropshire. Hope you get your dream.

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Post by: Rosemary on February 12, 2014, 08:53:41 am

Hold that dream  :) Welcome from Carnoustie  :wave:

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Post by: Bionic on February 12, 2014, 12:09:58 pm

Hello and welcome from Carmarthenshire. I am sure your dream will come if you have patience.

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Post by: benandjerry on February 12, 2014, 06:58:25 pm

hello and welcome  :)  I'm a wannabee as well.  Today I bought OH and myself a pair of gardening gloves each.  :roflanim:  Progress eh....... ?

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Post by: mowhaugh on February 15, 2014, 09:20:58 pm

Hello!

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Post by: Backinwellies on February 16, 2014, 07:12:11 am

Hi.   Why not try  volunteering for others who knows where it may lead?  Try HelpX website.

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Post by: darkbrowneggs on February 23, 2014, 04:16:53 pm

Hi and welcome  :wave:  from somewhere in currently  :sunshine:  Scotland.