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by istoo » Thu Feb 26, 2015 2:13 pm
my parents have been self sufficient all my life. They rotate crops and livestock but the recurring items are pigs (will eat anything organic) , chickens, tatties and a polytunnel.
Tatties a fairly big yield for the effort. I loathed the forced labour as a kid, but now away from home i wish i had the space to do the same. but we have a new house with typically tiny garden but have raised beds and great yeilds are peas, tomotaes (a bit sensitive) grown chillis for about a decade which yield well and survive outside above 3-4degrees. vines will survive on south facing walls but seem like acidic soil, have two in the back garden but never geat a great crop from them. Apple trees are yeilding heaps, the tree i planted when we moved in took 49kgs of apples off it.
Bees are fairly easy, how far are you from flowering flora and fauna? Heather honey the nicest imho. Bees pretty much looked after themselves, although there was one hive of angry bees...
But on the booze/ fuel front. How about a micro distillery/brewery, self grown?
Whats the ground like? was it arable previously, whats on it just now, and MOST important have you bought a tractor yet?
My auntie has put half her croft to trees for long term crop but she is looking for an out so to speak, retired.
As an alternative to windfarms, ground source heating?
Let out for grazing, is your hassle free option.
Pump track, motocross track, auto cross track.
Just brain dumping all the things i would do with the space...
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