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A Smallholder's Diary
http://smallholdersdiary.blogspot.com/
A blog describing my efforts at living as self-sufficient life as possible. Involves growing our own vegetables, keeping chickens and anything else we can think of to be self-sufficient.
- Added on: Oct 27th, 2008
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Author: Mark Daymond
- Listed in: Gardening Green
- Tags: pets homesteading chickens gardening vegetables self-sufficiency
Recent Posts
Wind Farms: Saviour of the Environment or Scourge of the Countryside
Living here in the flat windswept Lincolnshire fens it is inevitable that wind farms would start to spring up in this area. Some of the wind turbines are situated out at sea, harvesting the strong winds coming in off the North Sea. However, most ar...
I\'ve Won an Award!!
This weekend I was hoping to get outside to do plenty in the garden and then write about it here. Unfortunately the weather has been horrible so I did hardly anything. This has left me with a serious case of "blogger's block" and nothing to say. F...
When to Plant Garlic: Autumn, Winter or Spring?
I know it is not very socially acceptable, but I do like garlic! My favourite has to be whole cloves roasted in olive oil - these are great with salad or with roast vegetables. Ever since I have started growing vegetables I have grown garlic. Most...
Seals at Donna Nook ......and Fireworks!
Yesterday, rather than spending the day in the garden (as I probably should do) we took a trip up to Donna Nook on the Lincolnshire coast. Every year during November and December, hundreds of grey seals come up onto the beach here to give birth. We ...
Pumpkin Soup Recipe
Of course at Halloween there are a lot of pumpkins around, but I am always surprised how many people simply carve out their pumpkin lanterns and throw the actual flesh away. After all, you can make pumpkin soup, and.....um.... well I am sure there...
Loads of Hazelnuts!!
When we moved to our current house we inherited a hazelnut tree. Hazelnut trees have several trunks and are actually more like a large bush than a tree. The tree that inherited was all but dead apart from one trunk, so we decided to cut it right ba...
