The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Womble on October 20, 2014, 09:26:13 pm
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I had a very strange thought today. Did you know that there are millions of people in the UK who never eat ANYTHING unless they've first bought it in a shop, you know, using that money stuff none of us appear to have?? ;D
It sounds daft, but think on it for a minute and it's quite mind blowing.
I can't imagine living that way any more. Can you?
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nope can't imagine it...
mission for next year is veggies to try and stop buying them next...
within another year we will be self sufficient in lamb, chicken, milk (goats) plus other dairy products and hopefully honey...
can't wait...
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Some of us have to use that funny money stuff! :innocent: But we rely on youse yins to provide us with stuff to buy with the money stuff :excited:
(and some of us actually LIKE money!!!) :roflanim:
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What? You mean that some people actually don't produce any of their own food? Surely not?
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It's weird, isn't it? Apparently you can actually buy things in the supermarket that taste a little bit like real eggs! Who knew!?
It was just the drive back down tonight that got me thinking, munching tomatoes, apples, tomatoes and a homemade blueberry muffin as I went, and with Bloomer's tup lamb in the trailer ready to start next year's lambs....
This wasn't really about money though, it was just the realisation that most people will never eat anything that they haven't bought. We used to be like that too, but we've slowly taken a different path without really thinking about it too hard, and it's amazing how far we've come.
We're far from self sufficient, but not a day goes by without us eating something that we've grown, reared, caught or gathered ourselves, and that does make me smile :thumbsup: .
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What's more, some people would actually HATE to eat something that - yuchyuchityyuchyuch - came out of the ground, or out of a cow's teats, or out of a hens bottom :o :o. Some city folk are genuinely terrified of the countryside and want nothing to do with it, while others pine and yearn to live here. I think we're all so lucky to be out here, with land to grow our crops and raise our animals.
I have to have some of that money stuff because I have to buy BACON. I tried keeping pigs but couldn't dream of killing them :pig: :pig: Just sometimes beautiful, delicious hogget isn't enough ::)
Apart from when I was a student in Edinburgh, I've always managed to grow at least some food and I hope I can go on doing that. One of my fears is that I get put into a home with no access to the outdoors, let alone somewhere to grow some herbs at least. :'( :'( :'(
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Oh, Fleecewife, maybe we should all throw in our lot together and buy a TASer's care home. :hug:
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Oh, Fleecewife, maybe we should all throw in our lot together and buy a TASer's care home. :hug:
There's your next project, right there, Rosemary, Karen...
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Oh, Fleecewife, maybe we should all throw in our lot together and buy a TASer's care home. :hug:
That would be wonderful :thumbsup: A bit like an American Silver City, but Green and a bit smelly ;D
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pifft, I can't be bothered to grow food (hate veggies anyway :p) and I like money :) but then, I am not a smallholder, I am an animal collector (and no, I am not eating my ponies..)
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Oh, Fleecewife, maybe we should all throw in our lot together and buy a TASer's care home. :hug:
That would be wonderful :thumbsup: A bit like an American Silver City, but Green and a bit smelly ;D
A further thought :idea: - with so many of us needing to make a profit from our smallholdings, and so many smallholding nurses out there......how about keeping old folk :excited: We could potter around outside all day, visit the veggie patch, cast an eye over the animals and bicker amongst ourselves endlessly about the best way to do this or that. Old smallholders' heaven :sunshine:
Mr F suggests doing woodland burials too :roflanim: One stop oldie shop ;D
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Would bringing on a new OAP trigger a standstill on existing OAPs on the holding though? Could be a logistical nightmare, particularly if visiting grandchildren were to bring in any of their diseases! :roflanim:
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I think this idea, possibly unlike the aged retired smallholders, has legs...
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;D ;D
(http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee62/johningham/TASCH_zpsdb11dff1.jpg) (http://s228.photobucket.com/user/johningham/media/TASCH_zpsdb11dff1.jpg.html)
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I remember visiting my auntie and my parents taking some veggies that my dad had grown in the garden. She refused to cook them because "they were grown in dirt" so they ate "clean ones from the shop".
She was a bit paranoid though. She'd walk all the way round the boundary of her corner front garden to go in by the front gate as using the back gate involved walking past the dustbin. My mum refused to go the long way round and was shut out of the house because she had been past the bin. I don't know how anyone put rubbish in that bin without getting near it. Or how my mum managed to get back in the house either.
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I am booking my place now. Erm whats the age limit? Is 44 any good?
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Oh, Fleecewife, maybe we should all throw in our lot together and buy a TASer's care home. :hug:
There's your next project, right there, Rosemary, Karen...
You might not know this, but my folks ran a care home for the elderly for over 20 years ;)
I have the building already (currently living in it though !) but no wish to go down the granny farming route - I'll stick to my pigs thanks, FAR less hassle than people :innocent: :roflanim:
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no wish to go down the granny farming route - I'll stick to my pigs thanks, FAR less hassle than people :innocent: :roflanim:
And if the pigs annoy you, you can always eat them ;)
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Soylent green !