[Mammyshaz]

Hi, I'm not a smallholder just dream one day I will be. Found this site last w/e when getting my weekly smallholding reading fix online. Never joined a forum before but think this site is great.
I live between Sunderland and Durham with my 2 dogs 4 hybrid hens & chinchilla. Not forgetting 2 kids & O/H
  Sharon x
 

[doganjo]

Welcome to the forum, Mammyshaz - you're as much a smallholder as many of us on here, including me.  I have 4 dogs, a cat, 11 hens, four ducks and a drake.  I puddle about with fruit and veg without a lot of success as yet, but hoping my son will get the polytunnel set up when next he is over so I can maybe improve things a bit.

[chrismahon]

Hi Mammyshaz and welcome to the forum. We're not really smallholders as we've only got chickens, a large veggie plot and loads of different fruit trees. The sheep have gone to make room for more chickens on our tiny plot and reduce our workload and the damage to everything. We do sell our eggs and some fruit. but it doesn't anywhere near cover our costs, so we are still I suppose at the hobby stage. I think when you actually make some profit, however small, you have 'arrived'. Guess this forum is a great place to start.

[Victorian Farmer]

Welcome from aviemore highlands

[Bangbang]

Hi! 

Big welcome from sunny (sometimes) Aberdeensire

 

[Dan]

Hello Sharon, and welcome to the forum. 

You don't have to be a smallholder to be here, all are welcome. 

[The Woodsiders]

Hi and a welcome from West Sussex, keep up the dreams

[Rosemary]

Hello and welcome from Carnoustie 

[Sylvia]

And from Devon. Keep wishing, it'll come true one day

[MAK]

Hi - key word is accidental !
Most of us had no experience but were propelled by desire or dreams to take on more. One day we woke up and realised we had a smallholding or at least things in common with others who do some of the same things all be it on a bigger scale.
Welcome from a snowy Limousin, France.

[Lesley Silvester]

   Hi Mammy shaz and welcome from Shropshire.  I hav emore of a micro-holding, ie a large back garden.  I grow veg and fruit and have goats.  Three at the moment but hsortly to be reduced to two.  The one going is called Curry.  Need I say more?   

[Mammyshaz]

 Thanks for the warm welcome everyone, the friendliness of the people on this forum is great.

I only have a backyard so rent 2 gardens (allotments really but most are used as lawned gardens) across from the house so very handy. Was wall-to-wall lawn, but slowly ...very slowly... 20 years actually... been digging out & growing more fruit & veg. But urge for own place grows bigger with each dig.

After depressing over lack of property with land in the area & house not selling for 2 years, last year I contacted council for permission to keep hens, got a YES!  other livestock not allowed unfortunately 
But one day...

Enjoy reading everyone's Q&A,  hopefully can input a bit but prob end up asking more than helping
it's amazing what I have already learned ( all in preparation for the wish come true, heehee)

[Smalltime]

Hi,

We are new here and looking forward to moving very soon and getting our first chickens in April - well you have to start somewhere! We have 2 big pet rabbits, a cat and five koi to move out of our rented hovel, where pets are strictly banned ofcourse. Now we are moving from suburbia to the countryside. Wonder how the landlord is gonna take to the pond I dug into his yard at the back of this place - ah well, looks a damn site better than when we moved in anyway...

 

[plumseverywhere]

Hello mummyshaz and smalltime!

welcome both to TAS.

we are in Worcestershire where we keep chickens, goats (one due to kid mothers day!) sheep (and more bottle lambs on their way after the weekend) and we grow plums - lots of them that become wine :0)

I make goats milk soap and we try to raise our own veggies where we can.

hope you enjoy TAS - its a lovely place with lovely people 

[Brijjy]

Hello  Welcome to the site.