The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: sarahdean_66 on May 05, 2015, 01:01:16 pm
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Whats your bread and butter, farming type things rather then off site im interested in. :)
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My pension ;D
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Hatching eggs and Lleyn Sheep.
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as yet none, its an expensive hobby that puts some meat in the freezer.
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Breeding Shetland cattle and selling breeding stock to new keepers and selling grass fed, rare-breed beef to customers locally and further afield...
This year we've had 8 calves so far and all 8 are boys - so we're going to have a lot of beef to sell in a couple of years!
Sue
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Husband works for a well known farming insurance company which allows me to stay home and make goat's milk soap which is sold online within the UK and across the globe sometimes :)
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Sheep.
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Working wife pension and parish clerk (I'm the only one wot can read and write :-J
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Sheep - store lambs mainly, some breeding stock.
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I'm with bloomer, I need to work full time to pay for the lifestyle. I sell Chicken/Duck eggs but with only 20 poultry total they just about cover their costs and sell honey, but again after 4 years varying between 2-4 hives probably only just starting to breakeven as setting up is expensive.
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My pension keeps my goats and allows me to pay my mortgage so I can have the space to grow fruit and veg.
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Dairy farmer! Work with my parents and 2 brothers, Running 800 acres with about 850 head of stock.
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Don't often see much butter but the bread is sheep pigs eggs and hay. I do work in agri off site as a crop nutritionist
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Just an odd breadcrumb here from egg, produce and young stock sales.
As I don't have a day job, pension or an earning partner to keep me, I have got used to low cost living, enhanced by the odd massage or sessional therapy income. I have just sold a second piece of woodcraft work and am aiming for more craft sales to bolster income, it's that or go on benefits and fight for some minimum wage job against folk half my age and more relevant experience. Or sell up and try what others consider a normal life..
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Fruit & veg on our market garden which we sell through our shop in the next village, supplemented by other local produce, not a lot of money in it but makes us happy, if exhausted! :) :carrot: :apple:
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I don't think I make the money I could if I wasn't such a sap...
I Can't send anything to an unknown fate, so nothing of mine will go through the markets. My sheep I don't keep go to my freezer and I will occasionally sell a half if the timing is right. Normally I'm too tight though and keep it all for me!
I sell spare eggs which pays for the chickens, and the odd bag of rabbit feed.
I can't manage without doing my 2 days in the real world, but strangely get a fairly good income from my aquarium. People BUY my aquatic plant cuttings/ramshorn snails etc. They even buy duckweed!!!! And Alder cones :excited:
I love my fishies :love:
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Our bread and butter is the community part of the community farm. This year we have 16 member families getting produce in return for month subscription and two days work a month.
I've gone full time on the farm this year as my wife has gone back to work so I can take some time to really build up the farm. Extra cash comes from Christmas birds, half pigs, a few eggs sales and odds and ends like goat meat or honey that we have spare. This year, I'm building up the educational side of things - we're doing quite a bit of 'hatching in schools' and a lot more talks/demonstrations - I'm at the local WI tomorrow night and I'm just starting to branch out into taking chickens and chicks into residential care homes.
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Thanks guys some really helpful comments for me. :)