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judith
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Muppet
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I'm Sarah, married to Simon, 4 children, 2 dogs, 1 cat, 8 chickens & a small veg plot.
I've lived in Suffolk since I married 15 years ago (was Norfolk born & bred) & have had plans for keeping chickens (& maybe geese) & growing our own veg for years. We've grown dribs & drabs for a while, but this year finally got an area of garden cleared to grow our own veg. As to chickens...we built a chicken house & run around 6 years ago, Simon toddled off to get us 4 hens & came back with 4 cockerels (there followed a surreal conversation about how if cockerels laid eggs than he'd be the 1 who was currently heavily pregnant...). After that 1st foray into chicken keeping Simon lost enthusiasm & I had my hands full with baby #3 then baby #4.
This year everything seems to have happened at once - we finally got an area of garden properly cleared of tree roots & stumps (we live in woodland) so we could start our veg garden & 8 homeless chickens found there way to us via a friend of a friend who didn't have the room for them.
It's been a bit of a steep learning curve...not so much keeping the chickens, but sorting the veg garden. As a tractor driver Simon can only see the more intensive cram as much as possible into every square inch way where there's literally no room to get between beds/rows to weed, hoe, etc so there's lots of tweaking & learning we're both going to be doing over the coming seasons & years.
Oh & something else about me you may not have noticed...I do tend to waffle & ramble a tad... |
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jamanda Downsizer Moderator
Joined: 22 Oct 2006 Posts: 35056 Location: Devon
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judith
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Bodmegsson
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Islay
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gil Downsizer Moderator
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marigold
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resistance is fertile
Joined: 24 Oct 2008 Posts: 1534 Location: The heart of North Devon
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woodsprite
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