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Here's my tuppenny worth, if it helps... I guess it all depends on how many hens you'd like, but have you thought about an ark which you can move around and prevent the ground from being too scratched up? We keep a couple of bantam hens this way. We, too, have an area of rough grass in our garden in...

Thank you - this looks exactly what I'm after.

MsWildFlower wrote:Lots of patterns links for longies/soakers here: http://www.ozclothnappies.org/links.html#knitting

Wondering whether anyone knows a good web-reference for a pattern to knit a wool wrap? I had a good search through a while ago and found nothing that looked a good shape. Ended up buying a couple of wraps and some longies instead but once again fancy knitting my own. I am an experienced intermediate...

totally addictive... love the game and love the concept. Thank you!

Sounds like a fabulous idea - I would have loved something like this before I started, and I would have happily paid £25 for it. Whereabouts in Cambs are you? I am in West Suffolk (near Bury), and have friends who are very seriously interested in starting to keep hens. Unfortunately I am too much o...

hamster wrote:Here it is!!

http://www.greatbigvegchallenge.blogspot.com/

What a FANTASTIC website! Thanks, Hamster, for this. I am inspired!

My toddler and 10month-old loved their 'orange chips' this week - simply cut sweet potato into long chip-shaped strips and roasted them (about 15 mins, much quicker than potatoes). I appreciate that my children are a lot younger than your 10-year old but i, too, often struggle to get my toddler to e...

Thanks for the tip-off. I hadn't to date discovered the Vegbox Recipes website, so am very pleased both to be able to vote for my box scheme (www.rivernene.co.uk) and to discover a website dedicated to vegbox-orientated recipes. Fantastic!!

Thanks for all the advice. From what you've suggested I think I will stick to what I'm currently doing - adding it to our compost heap! Probably easier too!

Thanks to all of you for such good pointers - I have had a look at Beeginners website and the BBKA and it all looks pretty comprehensive and helpful. I am now even more intrigued and may well follow some of your suggestions to contact my local BBKA, simply to 'get closer' to it all. My sons are 2 an...

Just realised that I didn't say Hi to you all in this forum when I joined all those months back. Having enjoyed dipping into the livestock forum from time to time have finally got around to posting myself. A little about me - I am a busy SAHM to two boys, currently 2 and a half and 10 months old. We...

I have a curiosity about keeping bees but know near nothing about it. Can anyone recommend a good, honest, practical guide book that perhaps I could request from my library - or even offer their own guidance? This is still dream-stage for me, and with two very young and curious boys I may wait a few...

I wonder whether some kindly soul would offer some advice to a newbie on this subject and answer some (probably daft and pretty basic :oops: ) questions....? I am a newcomer to poultry keeping - have had a couple of bantams for the past 15 months - and whilst weeding the vegetable patch last weekend...