Ah, this is what I need a good sized garden! Thanks for your inspiration
Dave, it was just what I needed!

I'm hoping to rent a field up the road from me, but I'm feeling cautious
about the implications of livestock wandering off, causing road accidents
etc. Anybody got any helpful comments?

Take care
Karen




-----Original Message-----
From: smallholding@... [mailto:smallholding@...]
On Behalf Of Dave
Sent: 30 December 2005 23:24
To: smallholding@...
Subject: Re: [SmallHolding] Digest Number 304

Hi

As someone has started off, I'll add my 'two-pennorth' for the good of
the group and tell you a bit about me and my interest in the group.

I have a good sized garden and one and a half plots on a local allotment
site. At one time I grew all the vegetables that the family used (apart
from maincrop spuds) although work & other responsibilities don't allow me
the time to do so now, no matter how much I want to.
We keep bantams (I have two of this year's black-red Old English Game
bantam cockerals looking for homes if anyone's interested) and over the
years have kept rabbits, full sized hens, pheasants, guinea fowl, ducks &
quail together with the occasional orphan lamb on a friend's field, we've
also relied heavily on game and wild-harvested foods.
My particular interest is herbs, especially mint, sage and onion varieties
and the south american 'Inca' crops.
While I live in hope of eventually moving somewhere that will allow me to
do everything in the one place, I'm committed to practicing as much of a
self-sufficient lifestyle as I can from the garden, allotments, a friend's
field and what I can harvest from the wild while still earning enough to
pay the mortgage and provide for the kids. Hopefully this group links me
to other like-minded individuals.
BTW, I live 1200' up a welsh mountain!

Hope that this is of some interest to the group members and that it will
stir up some conversation.

Best wishes for 2006

Dave

Mic Rushen <mic@...> wrote: On Fri, 30 Dec
2005 16:51:08 +0000 (GMT), you wrote:

>Hi, I wonder as well if any one ever really posts here...... would love to
hear about others and what they do, might keep me sane since |i have no
hope of owning any sort of holding small or otherwise.
>
Hi Amanda

So - let's get it started! Where are you? Have you got a garden? If
so, have you thought of getting a few chickens and growing some
veggies? There's no limit on how "small" a "smallholding" can be...!

Mic


Mic (Michelle) Rushen


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