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Introduce yourself / Re: Hi
« Last post by Bywaters on November 09, 2025, 04:44:46 pm »Welcome
Whereabouts are you ?
Whereabouts are you ?
Recent Posts
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Introduce yourself / Hi
« Last post by Orinlooper on November 09, 2025, 04:02:20 pm »Hi all
My name is Mayuko Phillips.
I want to produce food from my land.
Fruit, veg as well as meat and eggs
My name is Mayuko Phillips.
I want to produce food from my land.
Fruit, veg as well as meat and eggs
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Land Management / Re: Thistle management with herbicide
« Last post by Backinwellies on November 05, 2025, 04:59:23 pm »My limited understanding is that you do not need the training certificates to buy the nuclear strength products, but you are supposed to have them too apply the product.
I think all chemical supplies need to see certs before selling .... ours certainly did
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Announcements / New diary post: The Final Diary Entry
« Last post by TAS Bot on November 03, 2025, 06:19:42 pm »A new TAS diary entry has been posted: The Final Diary Entry
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Pigs / Re: Pig nuts
« Last post by arobwk on October 31, 2025, 08:38:49 pm »Pig nuts ?! - I clicked on thread thinking this was going to be about Conopodium Majus (umbellifer with edible tuber). My father told me about these (he used to dig up as a child) but I've yet to try. I think I might have some on the Fields though so will check them out next year perhaps. Anyway, good-luck with finding the other sort of pig nuts at a good price 
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Pigs / Re: Pig nuts
« Last post by SallyintNorth on October 28, 2025, 11:15:26 am »i'm in England too, but what I do when we have pigs is arrange a fixed price deal for the amount of feed I'll need for the duration with one of the local smallholder / agri merchants. (In other words, online prices, or price per bag given over the phone, are a guide, but not what I generally pay. I usually get 20% or more off the advertised ppb for the commitment.)
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Marketplace / FS whitefaced woodland shearling (Scottish Borders)
« Last post by shankendfarming on October 26, 2025, 09:24:40 pm »Shankend Lachlan is a whitefaced woodland pedigree registered (RBST) shearling. He's a nice quiet lad. On the heptavac p vaccination system.
Located in the Scottish Borders.
Photos can be seen on my Facebook page (Shankend Park).
For more information please get in touch.
Price £250.
Located in the Scottish Borders.
Photos can be seen on my Facebook page (Shankend Park).
For more information please get in touch.
Price £250.
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Coffee Lounge / Re: Homemade washing powder/liquid?
« Last post by doganjo on October 26, 2025, 04:55:01 pm »Have you tried Google?
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Pigs / Re: Pig nuts
« Last post by Bywaters on October 26, 2025, 04:29:59 pm »I'm afraid this won't be helpful. but I've just paid £9.50 for a bag of sow and weaner nuts, in west yorkshire
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Coffee Lounge / Re: Time flies
« Last post by Rosemary on October 26, 2025, 10:57:47 am »Well, Dan and I, and the dogs, are on holiday in Gardenstown, on the Moray coast. We arrived yesterday to foaming seas and high winds, throwing salty spray onto our living room window.
Ay home, our polytunnel is empty and manured, apart from some chilli peppers, but we have lots of cooked and frozen tomatoes to use for soups and stews over winter. Potatoes and shallots in store, and cabbage and sprouts, carrots and beetroot, and lovely leeks in the garden to keep us going, along with cooked and frozen apples, rhubarb, raspberries and blackcurrants too. The log store is full.
Our B&B sheep have gone home; they'll be back in the spring with their lambs. All the remaining grass is for our old ponies, Smokey and Mickey - and the bugs and worms and birds. Our seven hens - five Disney princesses and the Flossies - are in their winter pen, closer to the house.
I have cleaned the house from top to bottom; windows cleaned, paintwork washed, furniture pulled out - so that's it done untli Spring cleaning. I'm already looking forward to Yule and our "winterfest".
So I am determined to use this winter to progress my Gaelic learning. It is my small rebellion against the colonisation of my country. This morning I started to read the poetry of Somhairle Macgill-eain and I find myself appalled but not surprised that he never featured in my formal education. How we neglect our own culture. And history. Such is the nature of colonisation.
And such is the nature of winter.
“No animal, according to the rules of animal-etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of winter.”
― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
Ay home, our polytunnel is empty and manured, apart from some chilli peppers, but we have lots of cooked and frozen tomatoes to use for soups and stews over winter. Potatoes and shallots in store, and cabbage and sprouts, carrots and beetroot, and lovely leeks in the garden to keep us going, along with cooked and frozen apples, rhubarb, raspberries and blackcurrants too. The log store is full.
Our B&B sheep have gone home; they'll be back in the spring with their lambs. All the remaining grass is for our old ponies, Smokey and Mickey - and the bugs and worms and birds. Our seven hens - five Disney princesses and the Flossies - are in their winter pen, closer to the house.
I have cleaned the house from top to bottom; windows cleaned, paintwork washed, furniture pulled out - so that's it done untli Spring cleaning. I'm already looking forward to Yule and our "winterfest".
So I am determined to use this winter to progress my Gaelic learning. It is my small rebellion against the colonisation of my country. This morning I started to read the poetry of Somhairle Macgill-eain and I find myself appalled but not surprised that he never featured in my formal education. How we neglect our own culture. And history. Such is the nature of colonisation.
And such is the nature of winter.
“No animal, according to the rules of animal-etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of winter.”
― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows