Hi from East Lincolnshire

[Naomi]

Hi everyone.
I am a smallholder and am very intersted in permaculture.
I am based in Lincolnshire and looking for local people who are interested in either or all of the following,
Ecology/ simple living /smallholding/allotments/growing /self- sufficiency /permaculture/organic produce etc, to join a new local group we are setting up.
We aim to meet once a month to chat and give advice to each other etc and to trade and barter our produce.
If you are interested please let me know.
Best wishes,
Naomi

[Wombat]

G'Day Naomi,

Welcome to the site, there are lot of good people here!

Your group sounds interesting, I wouldn't mind joining myself but I would probably have a bit of a problem getting to the meetings

Nev

[Andy Hamilton]

Hi Naomi

Welcome to the site. Sounds like a good idea that you are planning. I think that the way forward in raising awarness and actually getting things done is to join forces with people. That is perhaps one of the reasons web based forums are starting to spring up and indeed why this one was set up.

It is also a good idea to trade and barter with people, what never ceases to amaze me though is that the more I learn about ecology the more I realise that we had it right in the past and 'progress' took that away. Sorry getting phlisophical and stlightly off topic, but indeed welcome and I wish you the best of luck in your endevours.

[Naomi]

Thanks for the welcome.
I have had a positive response so far from local people .In one day I have had seven families sign up for the meeting and we are in a very rural area here,where the population density makes it hard to reach every family. It will certainly take some time for the word to get around this big county.
I am putting posters up in libraries, including the mobile one that serves our tiny village, schools, feed merchants , shop windows etc.
But only time will tell if the enthusiasm continues?
We hope to have our first meeting in June . We have a guest speaker for the first meeting, who has many years experience in self sufficient living.
I myself aim to live very simply, but to live well.
I home ed my children , grow most of our vegetables (space allowing) and keep poultry for eggs and meat. I do not drive or buy processed foods or heavily packaged goods and I compost or recycle as much waste as possible.
But I wish to do more and this seemed a good way to meet people who have the same aspirations and were able to give advice and support to those wishing to learn. I will keep you posted. Thanks again for the good wishes.
Naomi

[Magpie]

Hi Naomi
We home educate our children, too, we find it fits in well with the whole self-sufficiency philosophy.
Why let someone else do it, when we can do it better ourselves?!?

[Naomi]

I totally agree. It has certainly worked for us !
I think more people would home ed if they knew they had an option.
It isn't widely known here in the UK that it is perfectly legal to teach your own children at home.

[Lyds]

I wish I had known the facts about home education when my kids were young, it would have saved me so much worry. Well done Naomi!

[Naomi]

Thank you.

You can help other parents and children who are unhappy with main stream education, by spreading the word that home education is a legal option in this country.

A random search on the net brings up loads of resources covering the legal side and clubs you can join ,as well as actual teaching activities etc .

You certainly are not alone if you decide to home-ed your children.
There is a larger community of home-edder's now in the UK, than there has ever been and it is getting bigger each year.
So the help and support is out there if you want it?
I can post links to some home ed sites I use if anyone wants them?