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Community => Introduce yourself => Topic started by: ming on February 27, 2010, 01:51:45 pm

Title: hi
Post by: ming on February 27, 2010, 01:51:45 pm

I'm up in the hills in southern Scotland, no livestock cos the husband & I are too old and decrepit now, but recently retired and looking for help/advice/support in starting to grow our own veg and live on a much lower budget. Not a true fanatic about saving the planet but more looking to go back to a more sensible way of living. I hate consumerism. Nice to meet you all  ;D

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Post by: doganjo on February 27, 2010, 03:39:19 pm

Welcome to the forum, Ming.  I'm of a similar mind.  I do my bit on recycling mainly because I hate waste and if something can be used again that's fine by me.  I don't have food animals either but because I wouldn't be able to stop myself giving them names and having a relationship with them, so I eat other people's animals, not my own!  I have ducks and chickens for friends and they repay me with eggs for their board and lodgings, but not their bodies ;D ;D ;D  I also have a very good rat, rabbit, and magpie catching cat, and 5 dogs which I show and work(some of them)  I'm in the Wee County!

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Post by: ballingall on February 27, 2010, 06:34:58 pm

Hi Ming and welcome.

We're just outside Falkirk, with a little bit of land, and a few animals.


Beth

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Post by: little blue on February 27, 2010, 06:59:17 pm

hello and welcome from Derbyshire... hope we can help!

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Post by: sandy on February 27, 2010, 08:50:44 pm

Hello, growing what you eat is the common thread on this forum, we hate consumerism too, amazing how we become brainwashed!!!

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Post by: Fergie on February 27, 2010, 08:56:56 pm

Hello from Lanarkshire, probably not too far from you.

We also try to live a more sensible way of life, and getting ever closer to retirement are looking to the future with our smallholding, on which we keep sheep & chickens.

Welcome to the forum,

John

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Post by: Rosemary on February 28, 2010, 09:00:13 am

Hi and welcome!

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Post by: Daisys Mum on February 28, 2010, 01:19:12 pm

Hi and welcome from the Scottish Borders (east side). I have animals and hope to grow a bit more fruit and veg, trouble is I am not very good at it (the fruit and veg bit). The sheep managed to eat most of my newly planted apple trees and blackcurrants and the cat has decided that my raised bed is a great litter tray!

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Post by: jameslindsay on February 28, 2010, 01:25:17 pm

Daisys mum - Last year we planted 6 fruit trees and put protection around them all. Some how the goats have managed to find a way in to a couple of them and ate the bark.

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Post by: Roxy on March 01, 2010, 04:10:22 pm

Hello, from up in th'Derbyshire hills!!-----

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Post by: Hilarysmum on March 02, 2010, 06:38:04 am

Welcome from Brittany, I dont grow anything green, my neighbour says I have black thumbs!!