[Fri]

Urban Backyarder in the second city, keeping goats , hens and King Charles Cavaliers, wresting the weeds outta the allotment, the goat out of the kitchen and usually the teenagers outta bed!

Interested in permaculture....goats...poultry...aquaculture and general self sufficiency !
Just Starting out would like to share other urbanite experiences (0:

[Dan]

Welcome. 

The Good Life has a lot to answer for, I was told if I took up smallholding I'd end up with someone just like Felicity Kendall... 

What are the challenges of being an urbanite smallholder? I'd imagine having good/understanding neighbours goes a long way!

[Carl f k]

Hello from another backyard smallholder keeping goats chooks ducks rabbits cats veg patch and 4 teenagers..lovin every miniute  Not a million miles from me in west mids

[happygolucky]

   Hi, its how things used to be I suppose, in war times lots had chickens and pigs in the back yard...I could easily grow stuff but just keep chickens...done the allotment bit but my back dosn't like it!!

[Rosemary]

The Good Life has a lot to answer for, I was told if I took up smallholding I'd end up with someone just like Felicity Kendall... 

Your point being what, exactly?

Hello and welcome to a domestic 

[Lesley Silvester]

The Good Life has a lot to answer for, I was told if I took up smallholding I'd end up with someone just like Felicity Kendall... 

Your point being what, exactly?

Hello and welcome to a domestic 

He probably means he had a lucky escape by ending up with you.[carefully pouring oil on troubled waters]

  Hello and welcome from yet another back garden smallholder, this time in Shropshire. Goats, fruit and veg.

[Fri]

That's a relief to know I am not the only one!
I think the most challenging so far is dealing with red tape ! My neighbours are of a similar train of thought luckily (0:

[sabrina]

Hello and welcome 

[OhLaLa]

The Good Life - such a cliché !
 
I'm a John Seymour kinda person myself!
 
 

[Fri]

He was the quintessential self sufficiency God
I do admire him

[OhLaLa]

I've got a few older copies of books by John Seymour (and his wife), and going back even further, a fairly old copy of Cottage Economy by William Cobbett.
 
I love old books, I've even got old volumes of Cassell's Household Guide. Very good for keeping the servants in order! Oh, that'll be me then........
 
All are good reads if you fancy doing some swotting up. Some are in reprint from Amazon etc.
 

[Rosemary]

The Good Life - such a cliché !
 

Cliche it may be but if it gets folk interested, that's good for me.

[OhLaLa]

Can't say it was the tv programme that got me interested in grow your own etc, but it was a good series. I don't remember it from when it was on originally, but the repeats are still often shown.

[Fri]

I have a love of old books and use Amazon quite a lot... Lots of cross referencing ! I quite like Paul peacock and the strawbridge's it's good tho to compare with others as practical knowledge is good it's not always straight forward taking things from books (0:

[suziequeue]

Welcome to the site Fri. I am Birmingham(ish) based (Oldbury and Lichfield) myself during the week.


I used to pour over that John Seymour book when it first came out in the 70s.... never realising that one day I would be buying it off Amazon for myself.....