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Title: Greetings from Hants
Post by: Rhodie on May 30, 2010, 05:24:32 pm

Hello all forum members, I manage an organic farm with rare breeds in Hants, and am developing my own self sufficient garden ahead of buying my own property (again!). Briefly, I have farmed in Africa, USA and her in the UK, always grown most of our own produce due to living in remote places, so this has been a way of life for many years, but as always in this lifestyle, am still learning.

Title: Re: Greetings from Hants
Post by: jameslindsay on May 30, 2010, 05:28:18 pm

Hi, welcome. What rare breeds do you have?

Title: Re: Greetings from Hants
Post by: Rhodie on May 30, 2010, 05:40:29 pm

Hi James, thanks for the welcome, we have; pigs: Saddlebacks, Middlewhites, Kunes (selling up most of these) and Wild boar.
Native strain Aberdeen Angus and Herefords, with milking Water Buffalo for added interest.
Lleyn sheep, naked neck broiler chickens, Light Sussex and Barred Marans.

Title: Re: Greetings from Hants
Post by: jameslindsay on May 30, 2010, 05:53:45 pm

Quite a selection then. I have goats, hens, ducks, geese, ponies, lambs, rabbit and dogs.

Title: Re: Greetings from Hants
Post by: Rosemary on May 30, 2010, 06:56:11 pm

Hi and welcome. Someone was asking about buffalo on the site recently, so your joining is fortuitous. I'd like a milking cow - next year maybe.

Title: Re: Greetings from Hants
Post by: little blue on May 30, 2010, 07:15:35 pm

hello and welcome from Derbyshire

Title: Re: Greetings from Hants
Post by: Sandy on May 30, 2010, 09:58:55 pm

 Helllllllloooooo :wave:

Title: Re: Greetings from Hants
Post by: Hilarysmum on May 31, 2010, 07:04:06 am

Hi, welcome.

Title: Re: Greetings from Hants
Post by: Rhodie on May 31, 2010, 08:57:42 pm

Quote from: Rosemary on May 30, 2010, 06:56:11 pm

Hi and welcome. Someone was asking about buffalo on the site recently, so your joining is fortuitous. I'd like a milking cow - next year maybe.

We run the biggest herd in the UK, with an on site factory manufacturing Mozzerella cheese, plenty of calves on the ground so plenty of surplus stock available.
Thank you all for the warm welcome.

Title: Re: Greetings from Hants
Post by: JulieS on June 01, 2010, 06:31:05 am

Hello and welcome from Devon  :)