[naynay]

hi folks
I live in Liverpool, not on a smallholding - just a back yard - but interested to know all about the lifestyle and does it really matter if your the wrong side of 50 to change your lifestyle at all?!   

[bloomer]

im still south of 50 by a margin, but my total holding is 8 chickens in a garden...


welcome from central scotland!!!

[Ina]

Hi naynay (lovely name!)

I'm also the "wrong" side of 50 (but who decides what is wrong?), and I also only have a small garden...

Welcome from Aberdeenshire! 

[marka]

HI there from Moray

 

[lachlanandmarcus]

I don't think it matters a jot!


You just tailor the changes you make to the things that are important to you and that you enjoy.


I can't think of a better time to take the leap than whenever it feels right. For me it was following the death of my mother in law, who I had thought eternal - it gave me the jolt to just go and do what I wanted to, something like that can trigger a change at any age. 


I hope you enjoy the forum


Welcome from near Aboyne, Aberdeenshire 

[Daisys Mum]

Hi and welcome , I don't think that it matters what age you are, I am now the wrong  side of 60 and have no intentions of giving up my dream.
I am sure that I will be able to get someone to put hooks to hang buckets etc on my Zimmer frame when I need it 

[Lesley Silvester]

  and welcome from  Shropshire. I'm another back garden smallholder with goats so I have a battle to keep them off the fruit and veg. 

[Rosemary]

Hello and welcome from Carnoustie

[Cactus Jack]

I didn't start until 58 with animals, but I've grown veg for years and years and years and..........

[darkbrowneggs]

Go for it    - George Elliot wrote years ago


It's never too late to be what you might have been


Got that one pinned up inside my kitchen cupboard

[naynay]

such positivity..love it   

[Mrs Pea]

Hello there, I'm a newbie too - we moved here to our smallholding just last year and since then we've both moved to the other side of 50 and in fact we've had new neighbours move in to do the same and they're 71 and 60 

Lisa

[naynay]

in my ideal smallholding I would have goats for milk and cheese, some veg, some hens for eggs....do all  my own baking...not have to go out to work so I would have the energy to do all of that..... get off the world and slow down..  :have a small orchard too maybe...well you never know what is round the corner.  I grew some veg in pots this year..tomatoes were a disaster, so were the beetroot.  carrots were edible and courgettes were the best.  green peppers bitter.... livestock  a greyhound and 2 goldfish.  sadly my 2 bunnies passed away 

[Bionic]

Hi and welcome   I am approaching the big 60 and have only had my smallholding for just over 18 months. I now have chickens geese, ducks and 8 sheep as well as a dog and cat. Life doesn't get much better than that   

[Carse Goodlifers]

  from up here in Tayside.

Your never too young or too old to start doing something that you want to do.