The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Introduce yourself => Topic started by: KathrynSW on November 08, 2015, 10:07:25 pm
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Hello there,
Future smallholder here (I hope!). I've dreamt of this since I was little (eagerly applied to agricultural college when I was 14, they kindly wrote back and told me to wait a couple of years).
At the moment I find myself living in Birmingham doing a job I love. It's not a job that will last forever so I'm saving and planning to move away to the country when the time is up . I should add that I grew up in the countryside - not another naive citydweller who thinks living in the country is all about making jam and collecting eggs!
Here to find out and learn as much as I can.
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Welcome :wave:
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It's great that you love the job you're doing and can save up for when the time is right :thumbsup:. I did much the same - and it's a big help to have a pot o' dosh behind me and not need to make everything I do now pay.
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Hi and welcome. I do hope you get your dream. It can be a great life but hard work for little reward. I feel blessed to be able to live like this. We have a few sheep, raise weaners for pork, 5 ponies, 2 cats , 3 dogs and chickens. :wave:
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Thank you all for your kind comments and welcome.
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Welcome! :thumbsup:
not another naive citydweller who thinks living in the country is all about making jam and collecting eggs!
You mean it's not? Darn! ;D
BTW, what's an egg? :innocent:
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Its a banking group, subsid of citigroup. Obvs..
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Welcome to TAS :wave:
BTW, what's an egg? :innocent:
It's one of things the chickens hide in the most inaccessible spot on your land so that you have to be a contortionist to retrieve them and have a cast iron stomach to eat them because God knows how old they are by the time you find them ;D
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Hello and welcome from Devon.
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Welcome to TAS :wave:
BTW, what's an egg? :innocent:
It's one of things the chickens hide in the most inaccessible spot on your land so that you have to be a contortionist to retrieve them and have a cast iron stomach to eat them because God knows how old they are by the time you find them ;D
Nearly right. It's one of the things you have to buy or trade from your neighbour, as you can never find the ones your own hens lay ::)
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Welcome to the forum! My parents moved out from the big city to farm and I was born into farming and I would never give it up for anything, its in my blood. I hope in the near future that your dreams will come true. Keeping animals id fantastic and very rewarding, not always in the financial sense, but in every other sense of the word. If you have any questions we would all be happy to answer them as best we can. All the best :thumbsup:
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:wave: and welcome from Shropshire so not a million miles from you if you ever want to meet some goats.