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Virtually Verdant
Joined: 05 Jul 2014
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 Posted: Sat Jul 05, 14 7:21 am Post subject: Hello! I’m ‘Virtually Verdant’! |
 
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Hello! I’m ‘Virtually Verdant’ otherwise known as ‘Steve’ in the real world.
I’m from Warwickshire and I have a life long interest in leaving the rat race and getting back to a more natural way of life. My interests are Permaculture, Deer Management, Working Dogs, Foraging, Pickling and Preserving, Poultry and most recently I have been learning about bees and I will hopefully will be getting my bees and hives next spring.
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sean
Downsizer Moderator
Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 41808
Location: North Devon
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Welcome aboard.  |
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Virtually Verdant
Joined: 05 Jul 2014
Posts: 20
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Thank You Sean. There's certainly a lot of information on this website. A Facebook friend pointed me in this direction and I'm very glad they did. |
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gythagirl
Joined: 18 Feb 2010
Posts: 1448
Location: Somerset
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Hi Steve - or VV! - from a very verdant Somerset garden! There is much to instruct, inspire, amuse and annoy on ds 
Just beware The Chicken People as I don't see Chickens on your list...yet! |
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Virtually Verdant
Joined: 05 Jul 2014
Posts: 20
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Hi Gythagirl,
Ah yes, I put 'Poultry' rather than Chickens because at one time or another I have had Chickens, Ducks, Geese and Quail, but I travel a lot between my home and Dartmoor (my intended home) so I have no time for livestock at the moment....well except the bees I will getting next year, but they can look after themselves. Eventually I hope to get into aquaculture too, but right now my life is all about bees and fruit trees and shrubs.
Thanks for the welcoming message. |
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Snowball
Downsizer Moderator
Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 6183
Location: swindon
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Hello there, come right in and make yourself at home. |
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Virtually Verdant
Joined: 05 Jul 2014
Posts: 20
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Thank you Snowball.
It's raining outside and the wife and I are feeling decidedly under the weather, so it's tea, toast and honey and reading through the posts and threads on downsizer.net this morning. Just what the doctor ordered! |
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Green Rosie
Joined: 13 May 2007
Posts: 10498
Location: Calvados, France
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Bonjour from slightly soggy France! I'm verdant too - Green Rosie  |
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Nicky Colour it green
Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 8659
Location: Devon, uk
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welcome
green is the only colour |
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Virtually Verdant
Joined: 05 Jul 2014
Posts: 20
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Thank You Nicky and Green Rosie.
I think I'll fit right in here. The wife and I have just had a nice lunch of dandelion, spinach and nasturtium leaves. Pork pie, cheese and bullace & rowan jelly. Unfortunately I can't claim to have made the pork pie and the cheese but I'm sure if I look hard enough into the threads of this excellent website I'll find out how to do just that.
Little by little the contents of our plate are becoming homegrown and less shop bought, we feel really good about that. |
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Nell Merionwen
Joined: 02 Jun 2008
Posts: 16300
Location: Beautiful Derbyshire
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Hello VV! 
There are indeed articles on both cheese making and pork pies. |
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Virtually Verdant
Joined: 05 Jul 2014
Posts: 20
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Hi Nell,
I'm glad to hear that! I made Indian Cheese once but that's really easy. Now a good Cornish Yarg or a Smoked Cheddar would be an excellent project to undertake.
I'm not too far from Melton Mowbray and Pork Pie is very much a guilty pleasure. |
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 33537
Location: yes
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hello from land de t'tour
im glad you can get your dogs to work mine seem broken after three days running on a beach  |
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Nell Merionwen
Joined: 02 Jun 2008
Posts: 16300
Location: Beautiful Derbyshire
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| Virtually Verdant wrote: |
Hi Nell,
I'm glad to hear that! I made Indian Cheese once but that's really easy. Now a good Cornish Yarg or a Smoked Cheddar would be an excellent project to undertake.
I'm not too far from Melton Mowbray and Pork Pie is very much a guilty pleasure. |
Pricey's pork pie |
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Virtually Verdant
Joined: 05 Jul 2014
Posts: 20
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| Virtually Verdant wrote: |
Hi Nell,
I'm glad to hear that! I made Indian Cheese once but that's really easy. Now a good Cornish Yarg or a Smoked Cheddar would be an excellent project to undertake.
I'm not too far from Melton Mowbray and Pork Pie is very much a guilty pleasure. |
Pricey's pork pie |
Very pricey, but I'm addicted! I may have to turn to a life of crime to support my habit, 'holding up' farmer's markets to raise the cash for one more 'cold crust' kick! I'd go cold turkey as long as I could have a side portion of green tomato chutney and a slab of Red Leicester. |
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