[Mamagoose]

Hi, Just stumbled upon your forum "accidently"...  We live in the South of France in the Pyrenees and for the last 3 years, have been trying to establish an organic smallholding, although in the last 10 months we've been looking into Permaculture.  At the moment we only have some raised beds, a polytunnel and a handful of chooks.  Next week, we are going to look for a working Pyrenean donkey and a shire horse.  I am quite excited to have found this pool of knowledge.  Hope to speak to a lot of you soon.

[Hilarysmum]

Welcome from Brittany, where we raise pigs and chickens for meat and sale.  We flirted with bio but found the costs just to register plus the on-going certification and almost trebled feed prices too high a price to pay.  We were given loads and advice and support from this site.

[Rosemary]

Hi and welcome from sunny Carnoustie 

[Mamagoose]

Thank you for the welcome.  Hilarysmum, if you are in Brittany you surely must know the bureaucracy nightmare! Hi, Rosemary, I'm sorry to say I had to look on the map to know where Carnoustie lies.

[faith0504]

hi and welcome from spring has sprung moray 

[Hilarysmum]

  Hilarysmum, if you are in Brittany you surely must know the bureaucracy nightmare!

Hanging myself with the red tape as I type ..........  forms, forms forms then they lose them, or send them back or send them to the wrong department and it all starts  over again ...

[Mamagoose]

"Hanging myself with the red tape as I type ...."  I haven't tried that yet, but I haven't got many hair left!

[Cinderhills]

Hi and welcome from North Yorkshire. 

[Hilarysmum]

French bureaucracy the truly bleak side of living in France.

[chrispy4949]

Hi welcome from Bulgaria . Good luck . chrispy 

[darkbrowneggs]

Hi there amd welcome  from Sue in the Midlands - wish I was somewhere a bit further south today

[Hilarysmum]

I'm further south and its blooming freeeeeeeezing