I even got most of last years veg seeds from it.

--- Poppy Turpin-West <woodland_fairy17@...>
wrote:

> Have you heard of a 'group' call freecycle? It's a
> yahoo group that most area's (in the UK, not sure
> about other countries) have one and it's to keep
> things out of land fill.
> It works by people who have something they no longer
> need but might be of use to someone else posting an
> 'offered' message and then anyone who could make use
> of that item can email back asking for it. You can
> also sometimes post 'want' messages, the rules are
> different for each group about these, if there is
> something that you are looking for.
> You might find that you can pick up some of the
> things
> you need for your building work of off there, for
> free.
> Even if you're not in the middle of doing up a
> building you can still get some really useful stuff
> of
> from there, and you can always offer things you
> don't
> need anymore and pass them on to somewhere where
> they'll be used.
>
> --- hollingreen <keith@...> wrote:
>
> > --- In smallholding@..., lily
> > <taricq40@...> wrote:
> > >
> > > Subject: Re: [SmallHolding] Digest Number 378
> > > Hi Keith, welcome ....... i'm lily and we're
> > almost finished a barn
> > > conversion, it has taken a long time, we have
> been
> > at it for 5
> > years,
> > > but the budget was non existant.........at the
> > same time we cleared
> > > land and got the smallholding up and running.
> > > Tell us about your project,
> > > Lily
> > >
> > > --
> > > Lily
> > >
> > Hi Lily, You must be better organised than me or
> > more committed, I
> > Have been doing this conversion for 8 years, like
> > you on a non
> > existant budget and doing all the work myself. We
> > are now living in
> > part of the barn but work will be ongoing for a
> few
> > years yet. I
> > have finally got all the land cleared of nettles,
> > thistles and other
> > rubbish and most is now down to grass. The land
> must
> > be good as the
> > thistles grew to 6ft tall and needed felling with
> an
> > axe.
> >
> >
>
>
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