Selfsufficientish.com

Can't find anything in there so of limited use ... I think you need to feature most recent items wanted / offered etc. & broader search criteria - too many categories of good to start with, no one is going to repeatedly search and get no results. Also why all the countries? To (badly) paraphrase...

Any book that is a list of great / must visit website - completely missing the point and a waste of paper.

UPDATE

I tried some root veg which as could have been predicted were a complete flop.

Raspberry and blackcurrant bushes going in this weekend...

Make a fire of Elder tree,
Death within your house will be;

That's a worry - anyone know why Elder comes with such a dire warning?

contadino wrote:No. You can't support any financial vehicle (rent, mortgage, debts, etc..) from a smallholding. IMO.

Must pretty much agree ... running a small holding is more of a hobby than a sustainable lifestyle.

I notice you're in Scotland where a distant bell ringing somewhere in the recesses of my brain suggest there planning laws may be different in this regard, perhaps something to do with crofts ... may be a blind alley, but maybe worth research...

Excellent idea ... just hope the council, tax-man, legions of pen-pushing civil servants don't put some type of kybosh on your idea (I'm sure this used to be a free country) ....

Perhaps I'm just getting cynical ;)

Good Luck

Thanks all - great advice as ever, a 'visit' to Amazon is on the cards ... ;)

Hey there StripySocks with your under scores - I'm following you (under my real name) .... :;

http://twitter.com/bochgoch

I'm asking for reviews rather than giving them... Can anyone recommend great books on Permaculture? Is ' The Earth Care Manual: A Permaculture Handbook for Britain and Other Temperate Countries - Patrick Whitefield ' at £38 on Amazon worth the price? Is ' Permaculture in a Nutshell ' at a fiver a be...

I think the forecasters got it wrong again - at least in South Wales, today (Sunday) was supposed to be stormy, wet and windy, instead (so far) it's calm and sunny...

Thanks for the advice both - Nice information Sal, sounds like a job for the spring!

Rosendula wrote:... I wasn't allowed in half of the orchard because those apples can only be picked in October ...

Apply school-child logic next time and scrump them - I find that applying 'Just William' morals to life often helps ... ;)

Humans becoming humans

I like the concept ... & I'm following you on Twitter (under my real name which is bochgoch) ... good luck!

A great idea ... running courses seems like a potential income stream.

One concern I'd have would be around looking after other peoples livestock and its welfare - how would you deal with sick / dying animals when the owners are absent, uncontactable or have just lost interest?