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Penny Outskirts
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Blue Sky
Joined: 30 Jan 2005 Posts: 7658 Location: France
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Posted: Fri Nov 10, 06 8:51 am Post subject: We have a dream !!! |
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'Hola, Bonjour, Ciao ...... Hi'ya,
We are relatively new to the forums, so we thought we'd post an intro on here.
We (Mic & Min) plan to downsize in Spain, within the next 3 - 5 years. We have been to the Costa Dorada area a number of times now & like what we see.
We'd like to have some land, with trees, such as Almonds, Carobs, Olives or Fruit, to give us a small income. As well as growing all our vegetable requirements. In essence, we want a 'Smalholding', probably with a number of animals to.
The idea would initially be to purchase the land & a building/ruin on it, to renovate, then build/ or extend the renovation.
At the moment we are ploughing our energy's into a 250 Sq meter Allotment & considering a second one as this is full ..... even in November !!! However soon we will be building up our skills base by attending an array of courses to enable us to do the majority of the renovation ourselves. Not to mention .... saving some pounds, shillings & ... Euros.
If anyone has any advice about Spain, moving abroad, setting up a Smallholding then any advice would be greatfully received.
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Mic & Min |
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MIC
Joined: 13 Oct 2006 Posts: 24
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gil Downsizer Moderator
Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 18409
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Northern_Lad
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MIC
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Went
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Douglas in Transilvania
Joined: 11 Jan 2007 Posts: 11 Location: Huedin, Romania
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gil Downsizer Moderator
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Douglas in Transilvania
Joined: 11 Jan 2007 Posts: 11 Location: Huedin, Romania
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Buzet
Joined: 25 Jan 2007 Posts: 2
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NannyP
Joined: 26 Aug 2005 Posts: 118 Location: Vienne, France
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Posted: Sat Jun 16, 07 7:32 pm Post subject: |
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Hi,
I am Kathy and my husband is Mark.
I joined this site nearly 2 years ago now, as we were just beginning to work out how we could retire to France from Devon.
Well, we've been here nearly a year now, and in this house since last November.
I have 3 hens, currently free ranging, 2 chicks who in a couple of weeks will be old enough to join the free rangers.
12 Sasso crosses being specifically grown for the table....they live in a large fenced off area next to the potager.
3 Japanese Banatams, who are gorgeous but too small to be safe free ranging in our garden, so they'll be moving to more secure premises with a friend in September.
The table birds (8 of them) will be culled on the 8th Sept. I'm dreading it, as I have to learn how to do it on that day, and will for the first time, kill, deplume and gut a bird
I have never really grown vegetables besides tomatoes and peppers. We discovered that there was an exisiting, completely over run potager here, so have attempted (very badly) to resurrect it. This year is all about learning what is already in the 1 acre garden, and each day is really new as i discover another tree, or another plant.
In the garden we have chestnut, walnut, hazlenut, conker, apple, pear, peach, quince, and cherry trees.
In the potager there is perpetual spinach (yuk ), raspberry, loganberry, blackberry, redcurrant and a few blackcurrants.
I have planted, potatoes, runner beans, tomatoes, rhubarb, mange tout, pumpkins, peppers, and today planted the sweet potato slips. I am only using about 1/2 the potager as i didn;t want to push myself too hard. I had hoped that mark would help me, sadly he has little interest in gardening and I have to supervise heavily if I need his assistance.
So far, we've enjoyed the potatoes, and I have 3 or 4 mange tout ready to eat, I'll pick some later in the week.
I've been making cherry jam, cherry chutney, cherry liquer, and cherries in syrup. Raspberry liquer, red currant liquer, and today I've start a red berry wine.
I am a member of several forums.
Total France Where I know of several members here, HWH< Merlinn, Boisdevie and MMM.
The website in my sig is very good regarding Poultry and some smallholder animals.
Le Blog
That's about it.
It's nice to be in a postition, at long last, to look around and use this site.
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Bernie66
Joined: 14 Jan 2005 Posts: 13967 Location: Eastoft
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