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Hello everyone (I haven't been on here for a while because I got seduced by Facebook) We've recently started a new website to give free publicity to small businesses in Devon who provide glamping accommodation. The idea of this is to have less money in the hands of large corporations and more in the...

This doesn't help this forum, but I find this group on FB to be really good and active https://www.facebook.com/groups/1463715887259136/

mamos, Do share as much as you want.
Thanks for the feedback both of you.

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Hello We haven't been on here for a while because we've been lost in Facebook, but we thought that this may be something of interest to this forum. We've written a little piece about how we dealt with the planning authority when applying for permission to live in the woods. It's something people oft...

We started to smoke the venison salami today so took some pictures first. It looks like this: http://www.bulworthyproject.org.uk/images/salamipresmoked.JPG The smoker we're using is our old catering trailer fed with smoke by a woodburner. It looks like this: http://www.bulworthyproject.org.uk/images...

Your cooler is probably going to be a bit too cool. Ideally it want to be about 15 degrees centigrade. If it is a bit cooler than that it will take longer. The place where we air dried our last lot of salami was quite a bit cooler than that but it worked ok.

We've just been given half a deer, so we've made some venison salami-style fermented sausage. This is how we did it. We're not pretending that we are experts. This is all an experiment. 3kg Minced Venison 1kg Cured Pork Back Fat 100g salt 1pint Scrumpy Cider 4 cloves of Garlic 1 tbsp of Cayenne Pepp...

We've just tasted our home made salami for the first time. We've made bacon reguarly for years but salami is a whole new thing for us. First you have to make up the sausages and leave them in a warm place to become inoculated. You then move them to a cooler place to ferment, mature and air dry. They...

Hello We have been working hard harvesting the wood for next years charcoal and getting the woods ready for another year of fun in the woods. We've got some great events lined up for the spring and hope that somme of you can join us. There's a poster at http://www.bulworthyproject.org.uk/spring_even...

A friend of ours asked if we were ready for the open day today. The only honest reply was "not yet but hopefully by the end of Friday."

We're really looking forward to it and hope to see some of you there.

Less than a month to go now and what started as some crazy idea is coming together. Loads of our friends have offered to help and we're really looking forward to it.

We've listed it on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/events/1441939989419765/

Hi Hugh

We all need to ask basic questions on some subjects and can answer advanced questions on others. We're sure that you'll be an asset to the forum.

Great news. Our Temporary Entertainments Notice came through so we can sell Alcohol and play recorded music at our open day. We've also lined up some great entertainment for children. We have a poster to email to anyone who likes eating, drinking, craft demonstrations and hanging out in the woods. h...

Thanks doofaloofa
Shame we're such a long way from ROI

Hello
We're having an open day on the 6th of September. We've put the initial details on our website today. Thanks to some friends of ours providing some great and educational entertainment it's going to be a really fun day.

http://www.bulworthyproject.org.uk/openday.html