...I've been avidly reading other blogs from kindred spirits who are trying to live a simpler, greener (whatever that means) lifestyle and tried to apply myself to changing the way I live, bit by bit.
I couple of tears (years) ago I managed to get hold of an allotment. Yes, incredible though that sounds I managed it. Weeks of badgering the association chairman led to the aquisition of a plot, well, more of a weedy field really that nobody wanted to tackle but a plot of land nevertheless. It looked like this...
Fired up with naive enthusiam and over estimating my energy levels I went at it like a man possessed in a hair shirt until a year later it looked like this...
There was a crappy strip of land that even the grass struggled to occupy so in went some apple, pear and plum trees and bingo! my very own orchard. But I wasn't happy with that, oh no. I stumbled on Lucy's inspiring blog http://www.smallestsmallholding.com/ and found a bit about keeping chickens. So now I've got chooks patrolling the orchard too - even some new born chicks. More about that later.
I'm a year behind with all this so please forgive the less than topical first post. I'll add the history bits in as I go, just trying to cram as much as poss in the first post...
Now I've re-discovered fishing in all it's guises. I don't know why I ever drifted away from it. But I only go fishing for fish I can put on my plate whether that's a juicy Rainbow Trout or a beautiful oily Mackerel, I don't care as long as I can eat it.
So look in once in a while and watch me fumble my way around a healthier, sustainable lifestyle growing veg, keeping chooks and losing fish.
2 comments:
What an incredible transformation on the allotment, it really does speak volumes, as to how much work went into the project.
Awesome !
~Jo
Very cool. I like free food.
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