The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Introduce yourself => Topic started by: Lewisian lass on October 16, 2014, 03:24:37 pm
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Hello peeps. Exciting times ahead. Just moved the beautiful Isle of Lewi and we are very much all looking forward to being part of the crofting community. Don't want to say too much right now on case something happen and we tempt fate but soon we eill be asking lots of questions. Xxx :fc:
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Exciting indeed! Good luck from Devon :wave:
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Where did you move the isle of Lewis to ? A warmer and less windy part of the coast i hope ! ????????????
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Welcome from Caithness and :fc: all goes well for you.
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:wave: and welcome from Shropshire. Exciting times ahead for you. :excited:
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Thankyou for your warm welcome. Our missives on the house we are selling are in the middle of being concluded. The house n croft we have bought are also awaiting conclusion. We have purchased a 2 hectare croft in the Tolsta area. So we are on the middle of preparing for the 5yr plan for assigning the croft. All exciting. I love Lewis. We used to live on skye and for me Lewis has all the best bits of skye and more like mire affordable property and better beaches. I come from the eastern coast of sutherland and lewis reminds me if how that used to be. I love Sunday's. It is proper downtime. The plan is to split the croft up into half acre fields. Have goats pigs for fattening breeding dexter cattle and a highland pony. The fields are capable of taking hay or silage from them in the summer. We are also looking at two polycrub polytunnels as well as some semi dwarf fruiting trees and fruiting bushes. I was... I suppose still am tge chair for aden community allotments. So we have some experience of growing veggies fruit and keeping hens. The croft needs a few improvement s done to it. Including fencing and provision of shelters for livestock. So we will be very busy.
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you made it then ;D
hope to see you in the not too distance future!
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:wave:
you made it then ;D
hope to see you in the not too distance future!
I did manage to get registered. Hello mrs. Its a very small world. Xxx
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Welcome.
Amongst other things it is great to hear someone moving onto the island appreciating a Lewis sunday instead of complaining about the lack of sunday papers!
Hope it all goes smoothly.
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Good luck with the project!
If you aren't committed to Dexters, might you consider the Shetland cow instead? A traditional Scottish breed and still very rare. There's a new herd just been established on Lewis and I think there may be at least one other.
Attached is a photo of ours. Oor wullie also has Shetlands. happy to answer any questions you may have about them.
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I am a total beginner but am happy to add another Shetland cow picture to tempt you.
I really must get a cute picture of our calf for things like this.
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Hi from Moray and another Shetland owner.
Great cattle for a crofter/smallholder. Wonderful beef, can be good hand milkers, great at munching and thriving on poor quality grazing.
Good luck with your new adventure.
Sue
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Hello & Welcome :wave:
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Welcome from Skye, we are just starting out like you and by the sound of it our plans are almost identical. I'm sure we will speak again!
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Thanks hamish crofter. I will defo bare that on mind. Xxc
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Hello and welcome from Perthshire.
We saw a couple of Shetland cattle on Benbecula last week when we were on holiday.
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I have just been on an SCF course on entry level crofting and there were several folk from Lewis there. The place to be obviously! Good luck with all your plans.
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Hello and welcome from Perthshire.
We saw a couple of Shetland cattle on Benbecula last week when we were on holiday.
Ooh, wonder whose they are. They're not members of SCBA, I don't think.
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I have just been on an SCF course on entry level crofting and there were several folk from Lewis there. The place to be obviously! Good luck with all your plans.
you can attend SCF courses without acually joining the organisation I think but they have a facebook page so you can see what course etc are coming up
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Hello from Caithness :wave:
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Hello and welcome from Perthshire.
We saw a couple of Shetland cattle on Benbecula last week when we were on holiday.
Ooh, wonder whose they are. They're not members of SCBA, I don't think.
I'm pretty sure it was 3 Shetlands :-\
They were down at Balivanich just opposite the entrance to the riding stables.