Hi, I just wanted to say hello. I've just seen a lovely article for your book in the BBC Countryfile Magazine and I thought 'that one's for me!' so I will be buying my copy ASAP.
Keep up the good work!
Rachel.
Hiya from Rural World!
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Thanks!
Hi, thank you.
It's nice to know that this is a friendly site. So bloggers out there are too quick to knock you down!
Bought my book now and looking forward to it arriving!
Best wishes
Rachel.
It's nice to know that this is a friendly site. So bloggers out there are too quick to knock you down!
Bought my book now and looking forward to it arriving!
Best wishes
Rachel.
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hiya rachel. i liked the look of your granola recipe as well although granola always turns out a bit of a failure for me - lets hope this time your recipe sees me through!
welcome to the ishers.
welcome to the ishers.
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Thanks!
Thank you everyone, you've made me feel really welcome!
I wish I had more of a garden. We have a very dark and shady yard at the back of our house thats about 16ft by 8ft or so, with a 15ft retaining wall behind it so not much grows there. I do grow herbs and toms and stuff in pots at the front though. I thought Jamie Olivers idea of planting salad stuff somewhere discreet in his local park was a nice idea but I don't fancy the local dogs weeing on it! I did think I'd adapt it a bit and sneak some salad into some of our hedgerows where the sheep won't find them.
We have about 400 ewes and lambs at the moment and we usually have about 80 cattle although we are currently down-sizing and have about 40 at present. We farm several areas of farm land that we rent short term but our aim is to buy some land of our own.
Johns moaning at me at the moment for being on the computer instead of pampering him cos he's had a hard day shearing and he's tired and sore so I'd better go but thanks again to you all!
Rach.
I wish I had more of a garden. We have a very dark and shady yard at the back of our house thats about 16ft by 8ft or so, with a 15ft retaining wall behind it so not much grows there. I do grow herbs and toms and stuff in pots at the front though. I thought Jamie Olivers idea of planting salad stuff somewhere discreet in his local park was a nice idea but I don't fancy the local dogs weeing on it! I did think I'd adapt it a bit and sneak some salad into some of our hedgerows where the sheep won't find them.
We have about 400 ewes and lambs at the moment and we usually have about 80 cattle although we are currently down-sizing and have about 40 at present. We farm several areas of farm land that we rent short term but our aim is to buy some land of our own.
Johns moaning at me at the moment for being on the computer instead of pampering him cos he's had a hard day shearing and he's tired and sore so I'd better go but thanks again to you all!
Rach.
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Hiya Snapdragon
Hiya,
BFL? Sorry, you've lost me there!
John runs a small (ie just John for the majority of the time) farm contracting business so depending on the time of year, he could be shearing, hedge trimming and laying, hay making, straw making etc for other local farmers or for ourselves. I tend to do the paper work - there's never ending reams of it in farming although at last DEFRA are getting to grips with doing stuff online and am the manual labour as and when required. Infact, John and I brought a special new lamb into the world this morning - I have a very small number of special breed Southdowns and this particular ewe has a tendency to prolapse so it was a relief to see her produce a healthy ram lamb.
Which reminds me, I'm gonna take a look at the index to see if there is somewhere else that I should post this but the price of straw this year could well be very high. We buy the right to bale and keep the straw from arable fields once the combine has done it's thing and usually pay about £12 an acre but we've been told the price is £40 an acre this year. As the mark up on straw is very low, unless we can find another source, we won't be making any. If you have anywhere to store it and you need baled straw for any reason, now might well be the time to buy!
Best wishes
Rachel.
BFL? Sorry, you've lost me there!
John runs a small (ie just John for the majority of the time) farm contracting business so depending on the time of year, he could be shearing, hedge trimming and laying, hay making, straw making etc for other local farmers or for ourselves. I tend to do the paper work - there's never ending reams of it in farming although at last DEFRA are getting to grips with doing stuff online and am the manual labour as and when required. Infact, John and I brought a special new lamb into the world this morning - I have a very small number of special breed Southdowns and this particular ewe has a tendency to prolapse so it was a relief to see her produce a healthy ram lamb.
Which reminds me, I'm gonna take a look at the index to see if there is somewhere else that I should post this but the price of straw this year could well be very high. We buy the right to bale and keep the straw from arable fields once the combine has done it's thing and usually pay about £12 an acre but we've been told the price is £40 an acre this year. As the mark up on straw is very low, unless we can find another source, we won't be making any. If you have anywhere to store it and you need baled straw for any reason, now might well be the time to buy!
Best wishes
Rachel.
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