[deepinthewoods]

hi ive enjoyed browsing your friendly site and thought id join up to hopefully learn and offer. ive recently leased a very neglected little house that came with 2 acres of very neglected, indeed nigh on invaded land, full of hazel, ash and laurel with trunks a foot thick, bordering 100acres of 300yr old established unkept woodland. perfect! ive a young daughter, one young lurcher, one young maran cockerel whos just finding his voice, a few rir hens and a few more due, 2 hard working rescue'd cats and fish, newts and frogs in the ponds.ive been growing veg for about 6yrs on and off and am mainly self sufficient for veg in season. weve had a very hard winter here, probably due to my isolated position, we had -12 regularly  and 16 inches of snow for a month, unheard of in cornwall.
 between sharpening my chainsaw to chop down more laurel im slowly restoring the house to a liveable standard and adressing outbuilding and drainage issues, im on clay, we forage loads, the ransoms are up just and i pickle or salt everything i can, u cant beat salted runners! thanks for all the advice so far.d

[Hilarysmum]

Hi welcome, sounds like an interesting life with plenty to keep you occupied.  Have you considered pigs?  They would be useful for clearing.  Our Hilary is well known for her tree culling preclivities. 

[TheGirlsMum]

Welcome from Cornwall too Helston area, where abouts are you? There's lots of friendly people on here.

[faith0504]

hi and welcome from moray 

[deepinthewoods]

hi all, im near zelah and yep ive been a pig fan ever since hereford market as a boy, ive looked into it a bit re herd number etc but need to get a sturdy fence up first, im planning on using the stripped laurel. ideally id get the pigs in first to allow me to get thro the brush to put the fence up but gather it doesnt work that way round! ill trawl the pig section as i get closer. spring has definitely sprung here but weve more frost forecast and im sure to get it so am stil doing winter work whilst i wait. my main problem is getting the light back in, its soooo overgrown, it does mean loads of firewood tho! d

[Rosemary]

Hi and welcome from sunny Carnoustie 

[deepinthewoods]

thank you, and heres me bemoaning -12 well done for getting thro this winter to all up in the north!

[Sudanpan]

Hi, Welcome to the forum 
We're also in Cornwall, north west of Helston. We have 4 acres, south facing slope of a hill - we have some ex-batt hens, 2 dogs and currently have 3 GOS x OSB weaners who are having a rare old time discovering our cornish hedge 
Sounds like you know what you're doing!
Tish

[deepinthewoods]

lol i wish, im on a steep learning curve! this really is the start of a 5 yr project, all considered we're doing ok but trying to motivate a 10 yr old girl to put in fence posts isnt easy, any tips greatfully accepted. shes great at eating strawberies mind!

[JulieS]

Hello and welcome from Devon 

[Hatty]

  hello from South Yorkshire

[Cinderhills]

Hi and welcome from North Yorkshire. 

[chrispy4949]

Hi and welcome from Bulgaria.     

[darkbrowneggs]

Hi there - sound like you have a lot on, but are enjoying it

Welcome form Sue on the Herefordshire / Worcestershire borders, so probably not far from where you were from

[deepinthewoods]

hi all! and thanks for the welcome.