Thread about self sufficiency etc

Eliza_2

Sorry for another thread about searching but I remember a thread about saving for the dream life of living a simple life in the country, becoming self sufficient etc and it was full of great people who were doing that and discussing their animals and tractors and others who dreamed of doing the same. I've looked everywhere - can anyone point me in the right direction please?

Thanks

Liz

Auntie-Dolly

There is a web site called 'down the lane' that is packed with threads about just such things.

rosieben

not sure if there's anything on old style but there's a daydream fund challenge on the Greenfingered board, for people who are planning and aiming for buying a smallholding

hth

I did a search - there are loads of links to self sufficiency sites on these links that might help

Eliza_2

THANK YOU both!! Yes I know about the down the lane website and you're right there are lots of others but the one rosieben has come up with is the one I was thinking of! Thank you so much.

I didn't think it would be part of the old style thread but did think there might be the same people on both - and I was right.

Thanks again - end of thread!!

Liz

lostinrates

Eliza are you joining us at the Daydreamers? We have some in their smallholdings or with productive gardens and some buying and some still dreaming.

Gigervamp

rosieben wrote: »

not sure if there's anything on old style but there's a daydream fund challenge on the Greenfingered board, for people who are planning and aiming for buying a smallholding

Ooh, I hadn't seen that thread before. It looks really interesting. Mind you, it'll take a while to read over 300 pages! :eek:
I think I'll read the last few pages, then slowly work my way through the older ones.

Thanks for the link, and thanks OP for asking about it.

rosieben

I've not read much of that thread, but I'll be following it now; I'm too old to think about a smallholding so I'll just enjoy everyone else's

Gigervamp, I love pigs, my dad kept pigs and chickens when I was growing up

Gigervamp

At the moment it looks like getting pigs will have to go on hold if hubby's wages go down in January as we'll be £500 a month worse off, which is a big chunk for us. There's no way we'll be able to afford them then.

Still, we do have 28 chickens.

lostinrates

rosieben wrote: »

I've not read much of that thread, but I'll be following it now; I'm too old to think about a smallholding so I'll just enjoy everyone else's

Gigervamp, I love pigs, my dad kept pigs and chickens when I was growing up

Not all of us are smallholders. Some have wonderfully productive normal sized gardens.

rosieben

lostinrates wrote: »

Not all of us are smallholders. Some have wonderfully productive normal sized gardens.

I don't have any outside space now unfortunately. My dad was a good gardener and we were self-sufficient in veg and soft fruit, I was the youngest of 8 children so you can imagine how much he grew; a local farmer supplied orchard fruit in return for Dad keeping an eye on stock and other help - good bartering!

I've subscribed to the challenge thread so I can enjoy your progress

lostinrates

rosieben wrote: »

I don't have any outside space now unfortunately. My dad was a good gardener and we were self-sufficient in veg and soft fruit, I was the youngest of 8 children so you can imagine how much he grew; a local farmer supplied orchard fruit in return for Dad keeping an eye on stock and other help - good bartering!

I've subscribed to the challenge thread so I can enjoy your progress

Oh good, do join in. I bet you have plenty of tips from how your dad did things.

Before we bought the Wreck we gardened in my parents' garden, and before that on windowsils and when we had them, balconies. In italy we managed to get prodigious hoards of tomatoes and strawberries on the balcony:D. DH has become an addict, and while he's been posted overseas recently started growing soime ginger, which is something we've been meaning to do for ages. Now there is no excuse not to do it here. Because his office is heated he started some of the annual herbs of there this year, and chose his office based on the best growing windowsil rather than size or location.....his colleagues obviously thought he was a bit odd.