Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat

Smallhold Farming and Rural Living => Livestock and Growing on a larger scale => Topic started by: ACatCalledElvis on September 07, 2010, 18:53

Title: brilliant addition to forum!!
Post by: ACatCalledElvis on September 07, 2010, 18:53
Having gone from a allotment to now a smallholding, alongside reading this forum (long time reader - not a lot of posts!!) I am really hoping this section takes off!!

great addition
Title: Re: brilliant addition to forum!!
Post by: John on September 09, 2010, 11:12
Thanks!

Since we're hoping to move to a holding in the next month or so, it seemed a good idea :)

I'm hoping it's not just me asking questions though!
Title: Re: brilliant addition to forum!!
Post by: Snoop on September 09, 2010, 11:56
Having gone from a allotment to now a smallholding, alongside reading this forum (long time reader - not a lot of posts!!) I am really hoping this section takes off!!

great addition

Seconded.
Title: Re: brilliant addition to forum!!
Post by: pecko on September 19, 2010, 08:33
really good idea for this site!
Title: Re: brilliant addition to forum!!
Post by: compostqueen on September 20, 2010, 11:53
We think of farms and smallholdings as being in the country but that's not so, as I've found out since moving house to a town last year.  There are quite a few town farms here, tucked away behind the main roads.  I found several close to my house as I was looking in the phone book for places to buy straw bales.  So, you don't have to be deep in the countryside to find your version of a rural idyll  :)


Title: Re: brilliant addition to forum!!
Post by: Kate and her Ducks on September 22, 2010, 10:40
Well this section is certainly going to feed my obsession with a smallholding. Only a few more years in a poky semi  I hope!
Title: Re: brilliant addition to forum!!
Post by: John on September 22, 2010, 10:49
It's only taken us 35 years! In hindsight I should have gone for it when a smallholding could be picked up for £12,000 :)
Title: Re: brilliant addition to forum!!
Post by: TheSpartacat on October 01, 2010, 22:01
Ah, so for the past year I've peeped into these forums, looking on in envy at the allotment chat, waiting and hoping for the day I'd get a plot... and now I get to peep in here in envy, waiting and hoping for the day I get out of London and a few acres!!
:-)
(Don't mind me... I'll be in the background... learning!!)
Title: Re: brilliant addition to forum!!
Post by: penninehillbilly on February 04, 2011, 01:03
It's only taken us 35 years! In hindsight I should have gone for it when a smallholding could be picked up for £12,000 :)
Ooh the benefits of hindsight  :D
Title: Re: brilliant addition to forum!!
Post by: Alby on February 05, 2011, 16:01
Well Im really taKING a leap of faith and retiring to south west france in a couple of years, plans are for a large [plot of land to enjoy gardening and hen keeping in the WARM sunshine  :D  :D  :D

   Alby
Title: Re: brilliant addition to forum!!
Post by: Spana on February 05, 2011, 16:06
Well Im really taKING a leap of faith and retiring to south west france in a couple of years, plans are for a large [plot of land to enjoy gardening and hen keeping in the WARM sunshine  :D  :D  :D

   Alby

That sounds really lovely :happy: We just get 6months winter then 6months of bad weather ::)
Title: Re: brilliant addition to forum!!
Post by: John on February 05, 2011, 16:27
We thought about France seriously but decided the language was a bit of a block.. so we moved to Welsh Wales D'OH!

Seriously though, you really appreciate summer after winter. My other hobby is banging my head on a brick wall. It's lovely when I stop  :unsure:
Title: Re: brilliant addition to forum!!
Post by: Alby on February 05, 2011, 17:23
Im still  at the planning stage, which is great fun, but , the language will be a prob if I dont stop being a lazy bu***r and get  learning  :nowink:

Title: Re: brilliant addition to forum!!
Post by: tosca100 on February 05, 2011, 18:10
We thought about France seriously but decided the language was a bit of a block.. so we moved to Welsh Wales D'OH!

Seriously though, you really appreciate summer after winter. My other hobby is banging my head on a brick wall. It's lovely when I stop  :unsure:

It was maybe not the best winter to move to Wales! ::)
Title: Re: brilliant addition to forum!!
Post by: penninehillbilly on February 05, 2011, 23:54
Well Im really taKING a leap of faith and retiring to south west france in a couple of years, plans are for a large [plot of land to enjoy gardening and hen keeping in the WARM sunshine  :D  :D  :D

   Alby

That sounds really lovely :happy: We just get 6months winter then 6months of bad weather ::)
In Cornwall? you're just spoilt :D :D
Title: Re: brilliant addition to forum!!
Post by: Spana on February 06, 2011, 09:55
Honest.  :) Its mild down here most of the time but its  rain,  rain then more rain.  In the summer we just get warmer rain. :lol: