[harefarm]

Thank you for your replies. It was just something someone said as they were passing. I am not convinced it would be a profitable way to go. But the locals definitely want turkeys for christmas!

[MAK]

Hi Harefarm and welcome.
We set off with the same plan as you just 2 years ago.
Although I had an allotement in the UK I had no skills and little knowledge about keeping animals etc. This site is a great help and gave me confidence to take things on.
We are now pretty much suffiecient in food and the real challenge is preserving, storing and processing all we produce. We freeze our pork, ducks and rabbits and are dry curing and smoking too. Fruit and root veg is in the store and we sedate ourselves with our own cider. Felling trees for firewood at the moment ( snow permitting)
Good luck and hope you notch up the new skills and get as much help from reading others exploits as I did. Cheers from the Limousin France
Martin

[feldar]

Hi Harefarm
I'm from Hants too  Down on south coast in Lymington