Hi,
I found out about this site while trying to find info about chicken, and again this morning when trying to find out about wood burners versus gas ranges etc.
How am I self sufficientish? I make my living as a Medical Herbalist which I feel is selfsufficientish, I make bread, my partner makes lovely wine (this year we made beetroot, parsnip, gorse, elderberry, elderflower and also strawberry wines) neither of us drive so we cycle/bus/train around and we've just bought a new home where we hope to become even more selfsufficientish - there's a spring in the garden which we hope to use in the house and garden, I'll be growing vegetables and fruits for the first time (the garden is smallish though so we'll have to be cunning about space), we hope to have a couple of little hens and save up for a solar panel on the roof for some of our hot water heating one day.
I guess that's about it.
Best wishes,
Holly
Hello I'm Holly
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Re: Hello I'm Holly
Hi Holly, welcome 
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Never doubt that you can change history. You already have. Marge Piercy
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. Anais Nin
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Re: Hello I'm Holly
Welcome to ISH 
Sounds like you're well on you're way to ISH ness!
MW
Sounds like you're well on you're way to ISH ness!
MW
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welcome
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I like like minded people... a bit like minded anyway.. well people with bits of their minds that are like the bits of my mind that I like...
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I like like minded people... a bit like minded anyway.. well people with bits of their minds that are like the bits of my mind that I like...
my website: colour it green
etsy shop
blog
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Re: Hello I'm Holly
Hi and welcome
Let us be lovely
And let us be kind
Let us be silly and free
It won't make us famous
It won't make us rich
But damn it how happy we'll be!
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And let us be kind
Let us be silly and free
It won't make us famous
It won't make us rich
But damn it how happy we'll be!
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Hello HerbalHolly 
Welcome to Ish.
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Welcome to Ish.
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Hi Holly and welcome!
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Thank you!
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welcome
Sing like nobody's listening, live like there's no tomorrow, dance like nobody's watching and love like you've never been hurt.
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hello from california and welcome to ish.
and welcome to ish. WHEN MY IRISH EYES ARE SMILING I'M USUALLY UP TO SOMETHING!!!
NEVER REGRET THAT WHICH ONCE MADE YOU SMILE.
NEVER REGRET THAT WHICH ONCE MADE YOU SMILE.
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hey Holly welcome to Ish
If you have a small garden think vertical, canvas shoe racks make great verticle gardens for cut n grow lettuces, herbs and salad plants. recycled guttering along a sunny wall drilled with drainage holes and fill with potting mix can be used to grow strawberries. rain water spouting fixed vertical with holes cut can also be used to grow berry or vine fruits. Planters for silverbeet (chard), beetroot, carrots, broccoli and dwarf beans and peas take up little space, while tomato will grow up any wall or frame. Dwarf citrus can be planted in pots.
Goodluck and have fun with your new garden
Homegrown
If you have a small garden think vertical, canvas shoe racks make great verticle gardens for cut n grow lettuces, herbs and salad plants. recycled guttering along a sunny wall drilled with drainage holes and fill with potting mix can be used to grow strawberries. rain water spouting fixed vertical with holes cut can also be used to grow berry or vine fruits. Planters for silverbeet (chard), beetroot, carrots, broccoli and dwarf beans and peas take up little space, while tomato will grow up any wall or frame. Dwarf citrus can be planted in pots.
Goodluck and have fun with your new garden
Homegrown
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Modern humanity has said to Nature, "You are mine."
The Green Man has returned as the living face of the whole earth so that through his mouth we may say to the universe, "We are one."
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Thanks Homegrown,
I hadn't thought of that. verticle salads makes a lot of sense for my garden. I have enough space for 4 raised beds for things like beets etc but I was wondering about the salads. Maybe if I was cunning I could make some sort of verticle cold frame...
I have a mini north facing front garden as well as the little south facing back garden. I don't know much about north facing food gardening... maybe artichokes or a morello cherry? any other ideas would be great. This north garden is about 12' square.
Holly
I hadn't thought of that. verticle salads makes a lot of sense for my garden. I have enough space for 4 raised beds for things like beets etc but I was wondering about the salads. Maybe if I was cunning I could make some sort of verticle cold frame...
I have a mini north facing front garden as well as the little south facing back garden. I don't know much about north facing food gardening... maybe artichokes or a morello cherry? any other ideas would be great. This north garden is about 12' square.
Holly