Cho-ku-ri
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New business name?My wife fancies supplying and delivering large sacks to wild bird foods to houses in the local villages. To people who want to buy bulk but can't lift 20kgs home on the bus or up the garden path. Have any of you got a fun name for sombody offering this kind of service?
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marigold
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Tuppence The Bag Lady?
The Flying Feeder Filler?
Seedy Sandra?
Bird Droppings?
Sorry, getting silly 
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sean
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Should we be feeding wild birds in a country which is only 70% self-sufficient in food?
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@Calli
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On the news the other day, we were asked ot feed the birds more this year because the numbers of migrant birds to Ireland have doubled 
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Tay
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Flight of Fancy?
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Jamanda
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Where will the birdseed come from? Locally and sustainably produced I would expect?
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tahir
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| Jamanda wrote: | | Where will the birdseed come from? Locally and sustainably produced I would expect? |
That'd be my concern too, also how do you ensure when feeding wild birds that you're encouraging the right species?
That's why I've always preferred habitat enhancement over feeding
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marigold
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| tahir wrote: | | That's why I've always preferred habitat enhancement over feeding |
I've never heard "not having time to do the gardening" called "habitat enhancement" before  . I think I might nick that....
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tahir
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| marigold wrote: | | I've never heard "not having time to do the gardening" called "habitat enhancement" before . I think I might nick that.... |
Leaving prunings lying about for months at a time, general untidiness, lots of berries etc are all good things in my book
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Rob R
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Bird Seed Bird?
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Treacodactyl
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Would it be organic? It would be a bit daft killing off farm birds in order to grow back-garden bird seed.
I prefer trying to grow plants for the birds, such as teasels. I wonder if she could somehow encourage that along with selling some seed?
As for names, Sustainable Seed? Provided it is sustainable.
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lottie
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At the minute the Tits are eating the plant seeds the chickens can't reach---very efficient
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Mrs Fiddlesticks
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I suspect she'd get more customers if she offered to deliver other pet food as well. Tins of dog food and sacks of go cat are equally heavy and difficult to get so a service that offered all sorts of animal foods might work well.
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Frewen Feltmaker
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Will you go and write your essay - baggage
(sorry for hi-jacking CKR  )
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Mrs Fiddlesticks
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| Frewen wrote: | Will you go and write your essay - baggage
(sorry for hi-jacking CKR ) |
no, so there! (is there an emoticon for someone with tongue stuck out in defiance) I'm doodling with business names myself, on the quiet
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Mary-Jane
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| Mrs Fiddlesticks wrote: | | (is there an emoticon for someone with tongue stuck out in defiance) |
Oh, allow me Mrs. F
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Mrs Fiddlesticks
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why thank you!
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wellington womble
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What business names, Mrs F? I'm curious......
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Mrs Fiddlesticks
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| wellington womble wrote: | | What business names, Mrs F? I'm curious...... |
ssh still working on it 
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Mr BlueSky
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| tahir wrote: | | Leaving prunings lying about for months at a time, general untidiness ... |
I knew I was doing something right.
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Cho-ku-ri
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Thanks for the contributions, I was off line yesterday. I kind of agree about some of what you have said. I wonder about the logic/ethics of impotring tonnes of peanuts and sunflowers (non native plants) to feed to native wild birds. You would think there would be a market for letting a british field's weeds grow and seed and be harvested to be sold as local native wild bird seeds but like everything else it comes down to cost. Petfood delivery companies always seem to come and go as the margin on them is not so good as bird feeds.
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gil
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| Cho-ku-ri wrote: | | I wonder about the logic/ethics of impotring tonnes of peanuts and sunflowers (non native plants) to feed to native wild birds. You would think there would be a market for letting a british field's weeds grow and seed and be harvested to be sold as local native wild bird seeds. |
I thought that was what farmers were doing when they sowed fields of 'unharvested crop' or wildflower meadow, under the Rural Stewardship Scheme ? For the birds in their immediate area, obviously.
It would be quite difficult to harvest many of the seeds from native weeds / wild plants - dandelions for instance - on a commercial or more ad hoc scale. Would make more sense if folk with gardens left part uncultivated / weeded, or if some public green spaces were left to seed, instead of being manicured/mown etc.
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Rob R
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Our neighbour started distributing birdseed & he has now given up working on the family farm to run a rather sucessful online garden centre...
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Barefoot Andrew
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Good luck to Mrs. CKR and Mrs. F. with their ventures...
A.
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Cho-ku-ri
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| gil wrote: |
I thought that was what farmers were doing when they sowed fields of 'unharvested crop' or wildflower meadow, under the Rural Stewardship Scheme ? For the birds in their immediate area, obviously.
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The last I heard was the money has run out for Rural Stewardship Schemes, and that the criteria to join was too odorous so most is under the plough again due to more realistic grain prices.
Good for food security, bad for the wild birds.
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