[HelenVF]

Found this site while googling and thought it looked right up my street 

I live in N Lancashire with husband and 4 year old son.  We have 11 dogs (working gundogs), various poultry - chickens, ducks and turkeys, a welsh mountain pony and hoping to get a couple of lambs this year.  We are also starting the process of beekeeping, which we are very excited about as we have waited 4 years

We don't have a smallholding as such but do have a paddock  along with a barn and a few various bits which we use for poultry keeping.

Look forward to learning loads.

Helen

ps, OH also has a veg patch which I ocasionally help with lol.

[Bionic]

Helen,
As far as I am concerned you have a smallholoding and even if you didn't this site is great for anyone with an interest in animals and the land.

Welcome to TAS 
Sally

[simba]

Hi from me

wow that sounds a great place and v busy for you we would like bees but our neighbours are a bit funny but working on them

[Bionic]

Simba,
We recently got 2 bee colonies from a lady whose neighbours wern't comfortable with them and so she had to get rid.  When we went to collect them I didn't think they were close enough to the neighbours to be causing any issues.
 
I think its peoples perception of bees that is the problem.

Perhaps your neighbours will be ok with offers of honey when the time comes

Sally

[simba]

Simba,
We recently got 2 bee colonies from a lady whose neighbours wern't comfortable with them and so she had to get rid.  When we went to collect them I didn't think they were close enough to the neighbours to be causing any issues.
 
I think its peoples perception of bees that is the problem.

Perhaps your neighbours will be ok with offers of honey when the time comes

Sally

Sally,
Yea have tried the honey idea , unfortunatly they are not really animal people and the children are wooses but i will get through to them
Thanks for your advice though

Sim

[Rosemary]

Too much watching "Attack of the Killer Bees" 

Sorry - hello and welcome, Helen, from rainy Carnoustie 

[Old Shep]

Hello Helen!  I'm getting a feeling of Deja vu here - just said hello to you last night on the gundog forum    I'm the Helen with Setters :-)  I have 3 Gordons and prob not too far away near Skipton.  (small world)  I don't go on many forums but this is my favourite  - such a friendly bunch!

[TheCaptain]

Ah, Skipton, very close to where I grew up near Harrogate. Happy memories!!!

[Mammyshaz]

Hello Helen,  welcome to the forum from Durham   

[HelenVF]

Thanks all for the friendly welcome.  I must have been having a quiet day yesterday to join 2 forums lol.

I do some grouse counting near Skipton.  Think it's about 45 mins from here - I'm in Bowland.

Helen

[chairmanphil]

hi from Oxfordshire 

[NormandyMary]

Welcome from a very blustery NW France. So windy infact, it blew my henhouse over!!

[Lesley Silvester]

  Hi and welcome from soggy Shropshire.  Definitely sounds like a smallholding to me, speaking as one who has a micro-holding (back garden) with goats, fruit and veg.  Not to mention three dogs and a budgie.