suffolksmallholder
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- Suffolk
Traditional Farming in capitals!
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- North Somerset.
Interesting photos of someone trying to eke out a living while working themselves into an early grave while having a subsistence existence.
If you ran into these folks you would probably find they are a lot younger than they look and you mght be concerned about their general wellbeing on a subsistence existence.
Good to see traditional round bales still have a place!
If you ran into these folks you would probably find they are a lot younger than they look and you mght be concerned about their general wellbeing on a subsistence existence.
Good to see traditional round bales still have a place!
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- Owaka, New Zealand
Good read, thanks for posting it @suffolksmallholder 
I do like his attitude, 'farming with less constraints' and the happiness that comes with it
That's probably how folk think I farm
I do like his attitude, 'farming with less constraints' and the happiness that comes with it
That's probably how folk think I farm
Funny I did think of you when I seen the post. Personally I think their the modern farmers & everyone else has to catch up.Good read, thanks for posting it @suffolksmallholder
I do like his attitude, 'farming with less constraints' and the happiness that comes with it
That's probably how folk think I farm
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
I like minimalist approaches to things, less bills, less stock needed to pay them - as opposed to more of everything (including stress)
...but, I do like hot water behind a tap!
TheTallGuy
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- Cambridgeshire
The article says he's 70, so he's not doing bad, it also says that he has had to modernise a bit, but he still ploughs with oxen!
suffolksmallholder
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- Suffolk
It depends what you consider an early grave? Working on your piece of ground doing the thing you like to do with your animals.
No sitting in traffic jams, no huge machinery bills, eating food you have grown. Doing this until you're over seventy & not in a home not being able to remember who you are. Not a bad life eh?
Who really needs all the so-called luxuries/trappings, the dilemma of which pick-up will last the next three years? A lot to be considered.
SS
No sitting in traffic jams, no huge machinery bills, eating food you have grown. Doing this until you're over seventy & not in a home not being able to remember who you are. Not a bad life eh?
Who really needs all the so-called luxuries/trappings, the dilemma of which pick-up will last the next three years? A lot to be considered.
SS
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- Darlington
Is there not some EU directive about using animals for work,cruelty ect. As we know they have a lot of stupid clueless rules about every thing .
But surely not in doors, that would be luxury a to far
I like minimalist approaches to things, less bills, less stock needed to pay them - as opposed to more of everything (including stress)
...but, I do like hot water behind a tap!