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- Sat Dec 20, 2008 9:40 am
- Forum: Livestock
- Topic: Whose Poo is it Anyway?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2283
Re: Whose Poo is it Anyway?
Thanks for your reply, Zoe. Unfortunately, there isn't a gate to pin a note to. The field has open sides and the horses are tethered. I understand your concerns about pesticides, but I am certain they are not used on fields around here. We're on the edge of a town and our Council and the Council 'n...
- Fri Dec 19, 2008 9:06 pm
- Forum: Herbs and Vegetables
- Topic: Seriously tough herbs needed - recommendations?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1434
Re: Seriously tough herbs needed - recommendations?
id give up my staff when it was a pup used to pick up grow bags and rag them around till the tomato plants flew out and the bags broke up.
- Sun Dec 14, 2008 11:00 am
- Forum: Site Information and Announcements
- Topic: Do us a little favour, ah go on.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 10143
Re: Do us a little favour, ah go on.
scour local bookshops you may turn up a copy i got mine by going in and buying a cookery book i seen in the shop window and it was sat next to it.
- Fri Dec 12, 2008 7:43 am
- Forum: Site Information and Announcements
- Topic: Do us a little favour, ah go on.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 10143
Re: Do us a little favour, ah go on.
done though its in the wifes name as amazons her account.
do i detect a few father ted phrases coming through.

do i detect a few father ted phrases coming through.

- Mon Dec 08, 2008 8:10 am
- Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
- Topic: Two wheeled tractors
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2520
Re: Two wheeled tractors
Two wheeled tractors?! These are new to me. They sound an ideal all round small scale tool for land clearance and maintenance. They look a bit like a rotavator with wheels as opposed to just spikes. But they are bigger tougher monsters than rotavators. And have all sorts of attachements - can ploug...
- Sun Dec 07, 2008 10:35 pm
- Forum: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
- Topic: chicken carcasses
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9433
Re: chicken carcasses
I certaintly used to chuck all bones on the woodburner when I had one. I never had any problems with the bones not burning (think cremation). It doesn't work quite so well on my tiny open log fire now but I still chuck the odd one on. Zoe ive burnt carcass on the open fire you have to make sure its...
- Fri Dec 05, 2008 6:34 pm
- Forum: What's in the pot? Recipes and anything about Cooking
- Topic: spanish sausage
- Replies: 1
- Views: 690
Re: spanish sausage
looks scrummy what you having with it 

- Fri Dec 05, 2008 8:16 am
- Forum: Wild Foods and Foraging
- Topic: Geurilla Gardening, sort of
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5100
Re: Geurilla Gardening, sort of
what about strawberries,if you can keep the birds off them or growing herbs that are reduced in the supermarkets,try making a clearing in middle of some brambles and growing maize or runners up young trees.
- Fri Dec 05, 2008 8:13 am
- Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
- Topic: Why the SS life?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 9479
Re: Why the SS life?
my grandparents had a smallholding,though it was only veg when i was able to run around as they were getting on then and didnt want livestock though they used to have hens,rabbits calves and pigs. i cannot afford to buy organic food from shops and would like my kids to grow up without being fed food...
- Fri Nov 28, 2008 4:59 pm
- Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
- Topic: Things to do list - Whats on yours
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4048
Re: Things to do list - Whats on yours
heres mine , paint front room ceiling and paint kitchen before babys born in 4 weeks. finish rear garden where im shifting around layout. build hen run and house and aquire light sussex poultry. raid skips and ask freecycle for baths etc to use as veg tubs. save cash for polycarbonate greenhouse as ...
- Thu Nov 27, 2008 8:48 pm
- Forum: Welcome New People Say Hello
- Topic: hi
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3567
Re: hi
hi ,i live just outside coleford 

- Wed Nov 26, 2008 12:38 pm
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: Selfsufficientish bible with discount from an eco indie shop
- Replies: 22
- Views: 26166
Re: Selfsufficientish bible with discount from an eco indie shop
went into the little bookshop in monmouth for the first time ever as a cookbook in the window caught my eye and their sat on the shelf was the ish bible,so after a quick flick through i got it so wife can wrap it up as a xmas present for the kids to give me. 

- Tue Nov 25, 2008 4:27 pm
- Forum: Links, links and more links
- Topic: Prepared For Survival Blog
- Replies: 33
- Views: 14374
Re: Prepared For Survival Blog
dont worry ive mellowed with age
i prefer trying to get tasty /healthy food for my family than prancing through the woods with a compound bow,totally in combat gear.

i prefer trying to get tasty /healthy food for my family than prancing through the woods with a compound bow,totally in combat gear.
- Tue Nov 25, 2008 4:21 pm
- Forum: Welcome New People Say Hello
- Topic: hi
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3567
Re: hi
hi 

- Sun Nov 23, 2008 1:03 pm
- Forum: Herbs and Vegetables
- Topic: Storing Carrots
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1105
Re: Storing Carrots
me grandad used half a wooden barrel with sand,years ago.