Author Topic: Hello from Galicia  (Read 5432 times)

Galician Smallholder

  • Joined Dec 2010
Hello from Galicia
« on: December 26, 2010, 12:04:18 am »
Goodbye blackberry and hello the Galicia countryside. For a while now I had been reading the posts on this website with envy and wished I had some land and animals I could call my own. After a few years planning myself, wife and 2 young boys have escaped the rat race (working 80 hours a week in the city I hardly saw my kids) and now live in the depths of the Galician countryside. My father is Spanish (farming family) and I have been coming hear for years (shipped out for the summer hols to my grandparents). Now we are hear and for the past year I have been sorting out the mountain of paperwork and doing the necessary construction work required for a free range pig farm. I have permission for 30 Sows and currently have 9 (all due to give birth on new years day or there abouts). Anyway I thought I would introduce myself and also say thanks to all those that reply to the questions asked, and hopefully at some stage I will gain enough experience to share what I have learnt / going to learn.

JulieS

  • Joined Mar 2009
  • Devon - EX39 5RF
    • Ford Mill Farm
Re: Hello from Galicia
« Reply #1 on: December 26, 2010, 05:28:43 am »
Hello and welcome  :)

What breed of pigs do you have?
Pedigree GOS Pigs and Butchery for Smallholders.

tazbabe

  • Joined Aug 2010
  • ayrshire
Re: Hello from Galicia
« Reply #2 on: December 26, 2010, 07:04:03 am »
you may light another's candle from your own without loss

plumseverywhere

  • Joined Apr 2013
  • Worcestershire
    • Its Baaath Time
    • Facebook
Re: Hello from Galicia
« Reply #3 on: December 26, 2010, 08:44:25 am »
 :wave:  Hello! welcome  :)  wow! It sounds like an idyllic existance, espeically the goodbye blackberry bit!! look forward to hearing more from you about how its all going!
Smallholding in Worcestershire, making goats milk soap for www.itsbaaathtime.com and mum to 4 girls,  goats, sheep, chickens, dog, cat and garden snails...

HappyHippy

  • Guest
Re: Hello from Galicia
« Reply #4 on: December 26, 2010, 09:14:36 am »
Hello and welcome from snowy Scotland  :wave:
You're going to be very busy at New Year then ! Hope all goes well, you'll have to post some pics when you have them.
Karen

Rosemary

  • Joined Oct 2007
  • Barry, Angus, Scotland
    • The Accidental Smallholder
Re: Hello from Galicia
« Reply #5 on: December 26, 2010, 09:44:40 am »
Hi and welcome from Carnoustie  :wave:

Very best of luck with the new venture - sounds wonderful!

Daisys Mum

  • Joined May 2009
  • Scottish Borders
Re: Hello from Galicia
« Reply #6 on: December 26, 2010, 01:17:50 pm »

Hi and welcome from the cold snowy Scottish Borders :wave:
Anne

faith0504

  • Joined Aug 2010
  • Cairngorms
  • take it easy and chill
    • blaemuir cottage
Re: Hello from Galicia
« Reply #7 on: December 26, 2010, 02:30:27 pm »
hi and welcome from snowy moray  :wave:

piggy

  • Joined Oct 2008
Re: Hello from Galicia
« Reply #8 on: December 26, 2010, 06:15:19 pm »
Hi and welcome from Suffolk. :wave:

robert waddell

  • Guest
Re: Hello from Galicia
« Reply #9 on: December 26, 2010, 06:18:51 pm »
hello and good luck nine pigging at the same time and never done it before nine times good luck :wave: :wave: :wave: :wave: :wave: :wave: :wave: :wave: :wave:

little blue

  • Joined Jun 2009
  • Derbyshire
Re: Hello from Galicia
« Reply #10 on: December 26, 2010, 07:42:27 pm »
hello and welcome  :wave:
Little Blue

Hilarysmum

  • Joined Oct 2007
Re: Hello from Galicia
« Reply #11 on: December 27, 2010, 03:18:33 pm »
Hi lovely to hear from you

ballingall

  • Joined Sep 2008
  • Avonbridge, Falkirk
Re: Hello from Galicia
« Reply #12 on: December 27, 2010, 07:17:58 pm »
Hi and welcome- good luck with all those piglets!

Beth

morri2

  • Joined Jun 2008
Re: Hello from Galicia
« Reply #13 on: December 29, 2010, 11:20:52 am »
A rather late (sorry!) welcome from north Wales.  Good luck with your pigs, hope it all goes well. :wave:

Sylvia

  • Joined Aug 2009
Re: Hello from Galicia
« Reply #14 on: December 29, 2010, 02:10:50 pm »
Hello from wet and slushy Devon :wave: Is it lovely and warm where you are? :)

 

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