[Fowgill Farm]

Hi Nay Nay, welcome form North Yorkshire
I started with a back yard a lot of years ago, growbags, window boxes and sacks make great growing mediums and you can get grobags for a £1 from Lidl/Aldi etc and cheap seeds too and never say never, life is a funny thing and you never can tell what is around the corner.
mandy

[Lesley Silvester]

how wonderful  I don't think I could cope with masses of land as am on my own but a very large garden would be amazing  dividing it up into animals and vegetables as I know what a goat would do!!! somewhere more rural than where I am at the moment in the middle of a city with a back yard.  Also councils don't act too kindly where livestock are concerned. 

I live in a town.  The council haven't told me not to keep goats.  Mind you, I don't think they know yet.      I did ring and ask before we moved to Shropshire.  I ws shunted from department to department and nobody seemed to know if it wasn't allowed.  The only comment I did get was that if the neighbours complained about the smell they would have to look into it.

We have an ex-council house built in the 19402/50s when council houses had big gardens.  I have a yard and a shed for the goats, a fenced off patio for the dogs and all the rest for me.

I  have a holding number (legal requirement) and someone came out from the council to inspect a few years ago.

Naynay, if you want to come and see my set up you would be more than welcome.  I am in Telford so only about two hours from you, depending where in Liverpool you are.  My daughter is in Garston and it takes an hour and three quarters to get here.

[naynay]

that would be great  when the days get a bit longer.  My motorway driving is a bit limited..Ikea and back.  Would i be able to bring Molly my greyhound..kept on a lead of course?

anyone else near liverpool with a smallholding..its quite rural when you get out between ormskirk and southport..lots of land and spaces

[sandalfarm]

You'll find something! Courses are a wonderful way to spend your holidays and just ask local land owners for a scrap of land, some may be glad of being able to find someone else to manage it. Landshare is a good avenue too round a busy connurbation like Liverpool. I'd like to keep bees but what do you do with all the honey?

[naynay]

jar it up and sell it..my neighbours at my old place did that and it was delicious.....

[plumseverywhere]

I'd like to keep bees but what do you do with all the honey?

Three years ago I was having the same quandry about goats milk...that's how Its Baaath Time was born! Sometimes things just dawn on you as being what you need to do. Never in my life did I dream I'd make soap or bath bombs!  Follow the dream and always give things a go if you really want to!

[sandalfarm]

Are there food standards for honey? We used to sell our surplus meat to friends and family so I guess its the same. I'd have to get to know how many folk around our small town here might buy it off us!

[Mammyshaz]

Hello from Durham  we only have a back yard but also rent two allotments which are luckily at the back of our house. We started keeping a couple of hens 2 years ago and have fruit and veg. We are desperate to find somewhere with land but its not easy. What is out there is either too far away for work commitments or is too pricy  we will keep looking.

[naynay]

this is probably a sill question but can hens and rabbits be kept on the same small space?  even more so if the bunnies are already settled and the hens would be new residents?