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Community => Introduce yourself => Topic started by: eryl on November 22, 2020, 04:50:39 pm

Title: me
Post by: eryl on November 22, 2020, 04:50:39 pm
Hi Im Eryl,
                 Former dairy farmer, estate amanager and now smallholder with Dorset Down sheep and Sussex cattle and occasional pigs.
Farming/countryside correspondent of the Life in North Wales magazine and author of the Book The Full Moon and Heron's Legs. Great supporter of Rare Breeds.
Title: Re: me
Post by: Rosemary on November 22, 2020, 05:36:39 pm
Hello and welcome to TAS! Hope you find it enjoyable and useful.
Did you know there are quite a few herds of Shetland cattle in North Wales? Would that make an interesting article for Life in North Wales magazine?
Title: Re: me
Post by: eryl on November 22, 2020, 05:49:17 pm
no i did not know that. I know a lot of rare breeders in N wales but none of the shetland breeders. I do a lot of conservation grazing work and we are always looking for animals to graze different sites so might be good to contact some of them. click on this link - im on page 45
https://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/html5/reader/production/default.aspx?pubname=&pubid=398e4cdd-86af-40e6-8b11-32f33ce51816
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Post by: Rosemary on November 22, 2020, 06:26:43 pm
That was very entertaining! I'll have a word with our Welsh rep and see what we can do. Can you email me or give me your email address to pass on to her please?
Title: Re: me
Post by: eryl on November 22, 2020, 07:48:44 pm
eryl397@btinternet.com
Title: Re: me
Post by: Rosemary on November 24, 2020, 07:53:33 am
Maggy George, our Wales rep, will be in touch, Eryl!
Title: Re: me
Post by: eryl on November 24, 2020, 02:01:17 pm
Hi Rosemary,
                     i dont know if you can post a general notice rather than in a specific category, but I'm sure many of your members over the years have looked for a bit of extra land - or even perhaps have looked to land share. I just wanted to warn everybody about an organization called Fresh Start Land Enterprise. I think they have now gone out of business (good!) but just in case they be operating still - stay away from them, its just a big con.