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Mel Rice · « **Reply #30 on:** January 01, 2012, 10:56:52 pm »

Lamb, bunny,eggs,beans,onions,spuds, butternut squash,courgettes,leeks,apples,nuts,jams,quail, duck,chutneys, fodder beet(enough for the bunnys...(I buy in sugar beet pellets for the horse he doesnt like the real stuff anyway!)
Theres only the two of us so its not that hard...

Miss Piggy · « **Reply #31 on:** January 01, 2012, 11:02:27 pm »

Well done all.

It is actually a really good exercise to list what you have achieved, makes you realise how much you have achieved. Certainly worth all the hard work. Hope to add honey, chicken, bacon, ham and strawberries to next years.
This years achievements
Pork, sausages, Lamb
Eggs
Apples Pears Plums cherries
Lettuce Tomato Cucumber
Potatoes Leeks Beetroot spring onions
Cabbage Runner beans broad beans
Black currrants Redcurrants raspberries blue berries gooseberries
Brocolli Onions rhubarb courgette
Garlic chilli peppers
Compost
water for animals firewood

Millwood · « **Reply #32 on:** January 03, 2012, 10:38:22 am »

Raspberries,
Shallots,
Garlic,
Squash,
Leeks,
Carrots,
Parsnips,
Tomatoes,
Walnuts,
Kale,
Cabbage
Herbs

It's a difficult balance to grow enough to sell and still have enough for us, the customers usually get the best stuff!

Here's to the new year with more stuff for us and hopefully some

!

MAK · « **Reply #33 on:** January 04, 2012, 05:36:37 pm »

Quote from: Millwood on January 03, 2012, 10:38:22 am

It's a difficult balance to grow enough to sell and still have enough for us, the customers usually get the best stuff! Here's to the new year with more stuff for us and hopefully some !

I hope you get the pigs ! Let them have some walnuts when you have visitors - the noise is great! Good for your weight loss too as I think they are pretty calorific. I'm trying to gain weight after loosing too much over the busy spring/summer and autumn.

Lesley Silvester · « **Reply #34 on:** January 05, 2012, 12:09:24 am »

Quote from: MAK on January 04, 2012, 05:36:37 pm

Quote from: Millwood on January 03, 2012, 10:38:22 am

It's a difficult balance to grow enough to sell and still have enough for us, the customers usually get the best stuff! Here's to the new year with more stuff for us and hopefully some !

I hope you get the pigs ! Let them have some walnuts when you have visitors - the noise is great! Good for your weight loss too as I think they are pretty calorific. I'm trying to gain weight after loosing too much over the busy spring/summer and autumn.

You are welcome to some of mine.

Fowgill Farm · « **Reply #35 on:** January 05, 2012, 10:00:03 am »

..cobwebs, rats, pig poo, rain, mud, rabbits, pheasants, pork, sausages & bacon, raspberries, tomatoes, courgettes, lettuce, herbs, spinach, beetroot, apples, pears and plums. Potaotoes but not for all year.
Hopefully next year we will have more veg back & north yorks weather permitting and i have invested in some strawberry plants and if they survivie the winter will be getting them put in a high security area away from the pigs (escapees always make for the rasps and decimate them!!)
Mandy