The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: carl on November 02, 2009, 10:08:53 am
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On Saturday I was Invited to the Halloween open day at the Loxley Valley Community Farm. Mark, Who is the driving force behind it posts on here as sanam. In a very short space of time they have set up a community farm/smallholding project and have made a great success of it so far. They have worked very hard and created something quite wonderful. Last week they had a shire horse team ploughing a patch for them. They have vegetables, turkeys, ducks, chickens and some fabulous saddleback pigs. They are a very friendly bunch and I really enjoy visiting them. Sometime soon a famous exponent of growing your own will be visiting them and they will be on national telly. I would like to congratulate them on their project and they will go from strength to strength. If anyone wishing to try the lifestyle but have no access to land, then I would highly recommend that you try and find a similar setup near you, or start one yourself. We should all have access to a spot to grow a bit of fresh food, if we so desire.
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Sounds great - I love to see shires pulling those big old ploughs ;D
It's great what can be acheived when everyone works together towards a common goal - I hope there's more of this type of thing to come because it's time to stop the 'me, me, me' attitude and learn to be communities again ;D
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thumbs up :)
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hey Linz , what a shame you weren't there with the little one ... he could have been 'Robin of Loxley', for the day at least .... ::) ;D
Robin Hood , Robin Hood riding through the glen ....!!!!
cheers
Russ
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funnily enough they did all wear lincoln green on saturday.