Hello from New Zealand

homegrown · Sun Oct 04, 2009 11:13 am

Greetings from the deep south, my wife, three boys, my self and anever growing population of poultry and animals live on 8 acres in rural canterbury NZ, we grow our own veg, eat and sell free range eggs, will slaughter our first pig this year and have two future lambe dinners arriving shortly. my business is teaching others how to grow their own veg even on tiny city plots, I also make planters out of recycled pallets and cable drums and built both my greenhouses out of pallets and recycled plumbing pipe. One day we hope to find suitable land to build a combination tyre, rammed earth and strawbale home that is off the grid, but NZ legislation is a mite tricky to navigate.

Sun Oct 04, 2009 1:05 pm

Hi homegrown and welcome

Your job sounds great. And your plans, good luck with those.

red · Post: # 170918Post **red** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 2:29 pm

welcome

MuddyWitch · Sun Oct 04, 2009 3:37 pm

Welcome to ISH

Seems planners the world over are all the same

However, I wish you the best of luck persuading yours!

MW

kiwirach · Post: # 170939Post **kiwirach** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 5:10 pm

G'day Homegrown, from a one eye cantabrian!

. I'm from CHCH, altho have lived in Rangiora as well!. where are you?.
you plans sound very interesting....i dont know anything about the planning laws back home....i hadnt discovered i wanted to become ssish til a few years ago!.

Milims · Post: # 170951Post **Milims** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 7:09 pm

Hi there and welcome

Magpie · Post: # 170955Post **Magpie** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 7:27 pm

Hi and welcome, from someone even south-er than you!

homegrown · Mon Oct 05, 2009 3:53 am

Thanks for the welcome, its nice to know there are like minds out their, most of my friends think self-suffiency is a dirty word and bow to the great god of debt and fashion

Millymollymandy · Mon Oct 05, 2009 5:39 am

Hello home grown and welcome, and what does fashion mean please?

homegrown · Mon Oct 05, 2009 8:35 am

Fashion, as in they have to have the things the media says, big screen TV's fancy cars, the right clothes, all the gadgets.

Millymollymandy · Mon Oct 05, 2009 11:31 am

That was a joke

- most of us here live in muddy jeans and wellies (gumboots).

Martina · Post: # 171052Post **Martina** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 7:13 pm

Hi, and Welcome Homegrown, from Canada.

Your approach to building sounds so interesting. Good luck on your future projects. I hope the planners come around your way soon.

Martina

homegrown · Thu Oct 08, 2009 7:32 am

Thanks for the welcome everyone and by the way gumboots are a national costume here, we even have a song about them listen here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X2b2x7F ... L&index=40

But apparently the UK has something similar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SguYlpm3 ... re=related

by Billy Connolly

Millymollymandy · Thu Oct 08, 2009 11:16 am

homegrown wrote:by the way gumboots are a national costume here

Well at least you Kiwis don't wear those daft hats with corks hanging off them like the Aussies!

(don't worry you'll get used to my sense of humour eventually, I hope!)

MuddyWitch · Thu Oct 08, 2009 11:27 am

Thing is MMM, I now have this vision of you, in a striped jumper, black beret, riding a bike & selling onion & garlic... complete with moustache!

Arn't national sterotypes wonderfull? (& yes I know you're not a native french person)

MW

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