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In case anyone is interested - I have a few pure-bred Icelandic ewe-lambs (2005) for sale. Either greyish/black, or gingery/cream, some polled, some horned,...
Hi Have any of you started your smallholding venture with an unwilling partner. My husband would be so perfect for a smallholding, although he is a techie, he...
Hi Anybody got any good websites or books they can recommend. There are lots of ways I'm sure that our household could live a little more frugally, e.g. we...
Hi Karen, obviously John Seymours book is the Bible of such subjects, there is also Patrick Rivers, living better on less. This is more of an ideas and...
Here are some groups I think you may be interested in. http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/alluniforms http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/cash-challenge ...
I think the best thing is to follow a good basic recipie first, then experiment a bit with a second batch. Mind you, my experimenting with raw cane sugar has...
It's ironic that we aspire to a life outdoors "as it was", while on the other side of Europe those who have that look towards our hectic suburban lifestyle...
i agree, i see our french neighbours here, well they are over 82 both of them and they are uprooting their vineyard this week, and have decided not to keep a...
hello all, I am looking into the pros & cons of keeping one or maybe two pigs. Anyone out there gone down this road. How, when the time comes, do you go about...
Pigs are brilliant. If you keep other livestock they will eat up any of their waste food or non meat produce such as unfresh milk, whey, eggs etc. They will...
We keep a couple of pigs every year, they eat you out of house and home, clear the ground for you, taste wonderful, dry some hams, delicous after 9 months, and...
Hello Bev Thanks for your reply. How much space do you give yours we have 6 acres, but dont want the fruit trees debarked. Can you explain more about the...
Hi Dave, I was thinking more garden size, they dont bark trees and two is always best for company. Stock net will be fine with maybe a strand of barbed wire...
Not sure if most of you already subscribe to the smallholding.org magazine, but I saw this and thought I would pass it on. Regards Karen Opportunities to...
Thanks for letting me join... We are a 50s couple looking to rent some land in north wales near to Llandudno ... we are after about 3 or 5 acres with a house...
Danger Bull - starring Patrick McMoohan. I would only recommend one if you haven't got a bull! I'm told in these days of ambulance chasers and liability...
Hi all! I'm Jenn from California, currently in North Carolina, soon to be in Virginia, USA. I did spend about 2 months in Bedworth, Warkwickshire, and...
So does anyone here use or know of a chicken tractor? I plan on having one of those. When I worked on my farm in Arkansas We just had a coop. They were partial...
Well I'm here but not posting ! Very busy hatching ! (not personally ;)) Mel This e-mail, and any attachment, is confidential. If you have received it in...
I'm here sitting in the background also when I'm not out trying to recover my fruit bushes and trees from cattle damage, they were looking for Grass after all...
I think they are all over on the smallholding and self-sufficiency list or maybe on the online forums - are you are a member of any of these? What are...
