Preparedness for when

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ALI you know that is just NOT FAIR!!!!! How delicious and even less of a carbon footprint. Surely in an ideal world all our meat would be reared in this way and how much better it would taste and how much better a life it would have. Lovely to have a local turkey for christmas too, I've plucked and drawn most birds but not a turkey, I don't know if they're soft feathered and easy or blooming awkward like geese, oh the sore fingers!!! Your dear OH is a talented lad isn't he and how lovely to have a christmas bird as a result of his own labours, enjoy every succulent mouthful, yummmmmmmmmmy!!! Lyn xxx.

ALIBOBSY

Only thing is knowing exactly the best way to use each piece, especially the less well known parts. May try to get a cheap mincer and mince some as the kids love mince and it makes easy stretchable meals.

They have a small number of pigs as well, but they would have been more cost and I simply couldn't see where we would fit the meat for storage. Again peoples names went down for them really quickly.

Its not a farm more a house with a big garden and an attached field so they just buy in piglets and the young lambs etc to fatten up and sell on as well as stocking their own freezers.

Sadly they may not be doing it next year as a developer made all the houses and owners in the area big offers for the group of fields behind their houses. If they didn't sell they would be surrounded by houses as the neighbours have already agreed. BUT things were supposed to happen last Feb and the developer keeps delaying things, so it may all fall through. The owners we are getting the stuff from don't mind either way tbh, they felt pushed into selling by the neighbours (who have more land) making a quick agreement.

We will see. Shame though always sad to see green land being bulldozed.

Ali x

ginnyknit

I get a cooked or uncooked leg of lamb from local market for a tenner and they are beautiful. I usually get cooked now as its a big saving not cooking it myself. The market seems to be very busy everyday now - at last - and makes me happy to see it prospering.

ChocClare was a kind and generous of spirit person and fought a brave but quiet battle. She will be greatly missed. I last spoke to her (online that is) at easter and she was having her chemo and getting on with things surrounded by family and friends. My heart goes out to those left behind.

Alibobsy, such a loss of a caring woman, hope the little ones adjust, sounds asif they are remembering the good times. You must have brought them up well for them to be able to talk like that.

pineapple

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Blimey PINEAPPLY that makes 4 legs £92 and (I know you only get 2 legs and 2 shoulders) I'm fairly sure you could buy a whole carcass for not much more than that? who in thier right mind would pay £23 for a single leg of lamb? not me that's for certain!!!

Trust you to make that calculation Mrs L.
Sounds like Alibobsy has the right idea. Alternatively I've heard of people setting up joint food and energy buying ventures. Was thinking on these lines today while buying spices at an Asian shop. They were a fraction of the price of those little supermarket bottles/boxes and even cheaper if you bought larger amounts - like a kilo or more. Same for the rice etc. All it needs is a few willing participants and a little organisation - but I've organised community projects before and it can be an uphill battle.

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I totally agree, there are surely enough sites to build on without taking good productive agricultural land for the purpose. We are seeing a huge swathe of local woodland being levelled to build houses by the hundred, it's so horrible, the roe deer live there, the woodpeckers live there, the local bird population live there and whenever I walk nearby all I can hear nowadays is chain saws chomping through trees, makes me shudder. It wouldn't be so bad if they were going to build affordable houses for local people so some of our younger residents could afford to stay in the area but, no what they build is 4/5 bedroomed 'Executive' housing with no garden and 3 garages and what we get is people from the big cities who sell houses for mega bucks and come down here for a 'country life' with no understanding of what a country lifestyle is, Oh God I'm on the hobby horse again!!!!! Lyn xxx.

What you're talking PINEAPPLE is a 'Food Co-Operative', they were very popular back in the 70s when we were all hippies and into the good life, it could still be done but you'd need a stable and constant set of members and someone willing to take the responsibility for the ordering, collecting the cash and divving up the sacks of produce in the right weights, not something to be taken on lightly I feel, Lyn xxx.

ALIBOBSY

But on the other hand I did hear some good news in that a local council are opening up new allotments-yes not selling off, setting up new ones.

This is agri land that is owned by a public trust/country park and the idea is the council and they will go halves on changing the land over to lotties to help reduce the numbers on the council waiting lists as well as revitalising disused land. The land will stay part of the trust so can't be sold off, but a cynical small part of me wondered if the council could use these "extra" plots as an excuse to sell off some of their more "urban" sites. One in particular is right in the centre of a number of housing developments.

Mind you maybe I am just getting cynical lol.

Ali x

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Elaine241

Found a foraging book you haven't had at the library today. Foraging, discover free food from fields, streets, gardens and the coast by Paul Chambers. Let me know if you want it.

GreyQueen

:eek: Blimey, there's gunshots outside the Capitol building in Washington DC right now and the congresspersons and staff are hiding................

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:eek: Blimey, there's gunshots outside the Capitol building in Washington DC right now and the congresspersons and staff are hiding................

Maybe Obama's gone down there with his homies to get them to change their minds.

ALIBOBSY

Anyone been watching this new series
http://www.discoveryuk.com/web/naked-and-afraid/

over on discovery plus 1 now and just watching when I thought this might be the sort of stuff you guys might like as well.

Basically a man and a woman are dropped off somewhere remote, total strangers, no clothes no nothing except your survival skills and one item you can pick.

Ali x