Thanks for all your kind words and thoughts.A blank canvas is a very good description for our land which is called "Braehead". Our plans are many and varied at the moment it is a case of ensuring we do not attempt to achieve everything at the one time. Our first priority is to put up fences and gates. We will also create a veg patch, by then we should have our holding number and the livestock shall arrive. I was in the meat industry for a number of years and was trained as a livestock buyer so it will be mostly meat breeds but not modern hybrids as the whole ethos of what we are doing is to return to slower maturing and more rewarding livestock both when they are alive and also the meat they will produce.We will introduce pigs and poultry first to be followed by sheep and eventually a couple of beef cattle.
I seem to have spent so long reading John Seymour's and Katie Thear's books and have been to courses at River Cottage that to actually get started and create what for so long has only existed in my head is so exciting. I shall keep you all posted.
Andrew
Topic: New Beginnings (Read 9659 times)
