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Hi again,
Just letting you know that LSSSC is having an Xmas social . If you can make it along, please bring some food and drink for the communal table. More info is on the club website!
Thank you.
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I bought an electric food drier from a boot fair for £2 and it dries fruit and veg really well. I dip my fruit slices in lemon juice to stop them going brown before drying them and vegetables get dipped in salt water or lemon juice. They are stored in airtight jars once dry and my children often ...

Found this on another site. A smallholder is producing beautifully made patchwork recycled cloth shopping bag,s so you can support a small producer and reduce waste! I think they are great! Cloth shopping bags The 'green' alternative to dozens of plastic carrier bags! These bags are made from furnis...

Yes imp, I do have Indian Runners . They are great egg layers. Lovely greeny blue colour and very big. The eggs are great for baking cakes etc . Mine are certainly not show quality, as very good runners should be completely upright. I am guessing mine are not 100% pure, but have some campbell in the...

Thanks Nev. Yep ,it is really going well. With lots of interest from people all over the county. From those just keeping a couple of hens to others with housecows, pigs, turkeys polytunnels and more! I have had the chance to meet some really lovely people and that alone makes all the hard work organ...

Well what can I say? Peter and his lovely wife Helen hosted a truly fantastic meeting for LSSSC . We had a lovely tour of their beautiful smallholding and saw the orchard with its wonderful medlar trees ,also plans are afoot for a new lake /pond . They have converted an outbuilding into their own ho...

Next meeting is on Monday 4th July 7pm Venue is a Smallholding in Wrangle. To include tour of old orchard and home butchery and smokery, piglets, chickens, home brew,southdown sheep, flat pack tractor construction, lovage or nettle soup and more! email lsssc@T***o.net Visit the website for more det...

Well to keep it going here's a few more photos of my lot. Broody buff sussex http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v288/Naomi37/home011.jpg My old mare Daramis http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v288/Naomi37/dara003.jpg A couple of my ducks http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v288/Naomi37/wyandottesetc004....

Great pictures!
I love Joans expression!
Indignant springs to mind!

Yes being a mum isn't all easy. One of the hardest bits is letting go. But the simple fact that they want to come back, is what proves we have done something right! I miss my eldest when he is away. But I love seeing him happy and if that means he has to do his own thing so be it! I have really enjo...

4 more years and you may be free? Mind you I hate the thought of leaving my kids at uni and moving away. I am an old broody hen myself too!
They are always our babies ,aren't they? No matter how old they are.

I did it (relocated) with my kids. Now 18, 13 and 3. Are yours doing GCSE's etc or are you just worried about moving schools or them losing touch with friends? It can still be done, but you have to really want to do it. I have never looked back. I don't regret a thing. In fact I wish I had done it e...

Hi again Imp, Oh you will find me on all the smallholding/self-sufficiency websites. I love em all! If I ever won the lottery I would be able to afford a smallholding in Kent. We lived in Beckenham for a while so I know the area. Why don't you move to Lincs? You get more for your money here and it i...

For sale on behalf of a friend of mine. A red Murray ride on mower with two grass boxes and spare set of blades . £650 ovno PM me or email me naomi@nlever.fsnet.co.uk for my friends phone number The mower is in Lincolnshire and can be delivered locally. Forgot to add it is 12 HP and has 5 forward...

Subjects for the next meeting of the Lincolnshire Smallholding and Self Sufficiency Club! 4TH JULY 7PM Hosted by a member of the club at their own smallholding in Wrangle, Lincolnshire. . 2x beers from the hosts tame micro brewery! Other home brew - beware the Greenage! Flat pack tractor - how to (o...