Author Topic: Get me out of the city!! (Read 2869 times)

KathrynSW · « **on:** November 08, 2015, 10:07:25 pm »

Hello there,
Future smallholder here (I hope!). I've dreamt of this since I was little (eagerly applied to agricultural college when I was 14, they kindly wrote back and told me to wait a couple of years).
At the moment I find myself living in Birmingham doing a job I love. It's not a job that will last forever so I'm saving and planning to move away to the country when the time is up . I should add that I grew up in the countryside - not another naive citydweller who thinks living in the country is all about making jam and collecting eggs!
Here to find out and learn as much as I can.

nutterly_uts · « **Reply #1 on:** November 09, 2015, 03:11:10 pm »

Welcome

SallyintNorth · « **Reply #2 on:** November 09, 2015, 03:14:49 pm »

It's great that you love the job you're doing and can save up for when the time is right

. I did much the same - and it's a big help to have a pot o' dosh behind me and not need to make everything I do now pay.

sabrina · « **Reply #3 on:** November 09, 2015, 03:16:43 pm »

Hi and welcome. I do hope you get your dream. It can be a great life but hard work for little reward. I feel blessed to be able to live like this. We have a few sheep, raise weaners for pork, 5 ponies, 2 cats , 3 dogs and chickens.

KathrynSW · « **Reply #4 on:** November 09, 2015, 07:45:59 pm »

Thank you all for your kind comments and welcome.

Womble · « **Reply #5 on:** November 09, 2015, 07:49:49 pm »

Welcome!

Quote from: KathrynSW on November 08, 2015, 10:07:25 pm

not another naive citydweller who thinks living in the country is all about making jam and collecting eggs!

You mean it's not? Darn!

BTW, what's an egg?

Me · « **Reply #6 on:** November 09, 2015, 08:14:19 pm »

Its a banking group, subsid of citigroup. Obvs..

clydesdaleclopper · « **Reply #7 on:** November 10, 2015, 08:40:38 am »

Welcome to TAS

Quote from: Womble on November 09, 2015, 07:49:49 pm

BTW, what's an egg?

It's one of things the chickens hide in the most inaccessible spot on your land so that you have to be a contortionist to retrieve them and have a cast iron stomach to eat them because God knows how old they are by the time you find them

devonlady · « **Reply #8 on:** November 10, 2015, 09:08:36 am »

Hello and welcome from Devon.

SallyintNorth · « **Reply #9 on:** November 10, 2015, 12:17:06 pm »

Quote from: clydesdaleclopper on November 10, 2015, 08:40:38 am

Welcome to TAS

Quote from: Womble on November 09, 2015, 07:49:49 pm
BTW, what's an egg?

It's one of things the chickens hide in the most inaccessible spot on your land so that you have to be a contortionist to retrieve them and have a cast iron stomach to eat them because God knows how old they are by the time you find them

Nearly right. It's one of the things you have to buy or trade from your neighbour, as you can never find the ones your own hens lay

waterbuffalofarmer · « **Reply #10 on:** November 10, 2015, 12:35:50 pm »

Welcome to the forum! My parents moved out from the big city to farm and I was born into farming and I would never give it up for anything, its in my blood. I hope in the near future that your dreams will come true. Keeping animals id fantastic and very rewarding, not always in the financial sense, but in every other sense of the word. If you have any questions we would all be happy to answer them as best we can. All the best