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 Jan 26 2010, 06:27 PM
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 Ace Pigeon Shooter  Group: Members Posts: 826 Joined: 7-May 07 From: ollerton,notts Member No.: 7651  |
just curious to see how many people have one?
and can you keep any livestock on them? |
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Jan 26 2010, 06:43 PM
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Dead Eye Pigeon Shooter Group: Members Posts: 261 Joined: 18-October 09 From: Ramsey, Cambs Member No.: 19588 |
I don't have an allotment but I have a permission on one.
I clear the Rats and Rabbits. In return I get fruit & veg. A growing (pun) trend is for farmers or landowners to let out land on a landshare basis. I know some allow animals. http://www.yours2share.com/cgi-bin/mojoCla...=1&number=8 |
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Jan 26 2010, 06:50 PM
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 Dead Eye Pigeon Shooter Group: Members Posts: 291 Joined: 9-April 09 From: Cambridgeshire Member No.: 16649 |
Nearly 45,000 have signed up to the River Cottage Landshare
http://landshare.channel4.com/ I have 4 and a bit acres of grazing land but the missus is gradually starting to grow her own stuff. Last year we had apples, tomatoes, beans, blackberries, wild plums,eggs and of course a few rabbits. |
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Jan 26 2010, 06:52 PM
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 Ace Pigeon Shooter Group: Member Posts: 1836 Joined: 9-August 08 From: West London Member No.: 12936 |
My family has one, and there is a syndicate on ours who keep chickens.
Put the first things in (onions) and dug over a whole loads of earth last week. I forgot how much I |
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Jan 26 2010, 06:57 PM
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 Dead Eye Pigeon Shooter Group: Members Posts: 304 Joined: 30-November 09 From: Barnsley south yorkshire Member No.: 20222 |
i took 1 on end of last year took me 2 weeks and alot of fires just to get it something like
 chicken coop is finished and new fences are up so ready for the hens and the planting  the worst thing is theres a pub smack across from me where i usualy drink  so dont no how much digin will get done 
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Jan 26 2010, 07:13 PM
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 Ace Pigeon Shooter Group: Members Posts: 1785 Joined: 8-February 05 From: Norfolk Member No.: 1689 |
My father has two allotments in Holt, North Norfolk. He pays £1.50 a year rent on each I think. There are pigs, horses, ducks, chickens, goats etc. kept on the others close by. If I had the time i'd love an allotment.
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Jan 26 2010, 07:34 PM
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Dead Eye Pigeon Shooter Group: Members Posts: 314 Joined: 11-April 04 From: Gods country Elland west yorkshire Member No.: 1040 |
I have a half allotment in Halifax at any one time there is about 30 plus people on waiting list we cannot keep live stock but its still rewarding you cannot beat fresh veggies , also with this recession scumbags have been helping their selfs as well
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Jan 26 2010, 08:29 PM
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 Ace Pigeon Shooter Group: Members Posts: 623 Joined: 4-May 09 From: Nr Ipswich, Import from Essex 15 Years Member No.: 17094 |
Me and the missus have 2,1/2 allotments she love hers flowers, with me its garlic, onions, green stuff and early and main crop spuds, anything you can eat really, mind you all done by petrol equipment, bowlocks to bending over.
I grew enough garlic and onions last year to see us through to May/June this year Alan
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Jan 26 2010, 09:48 PM
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 Ace Pigeon Shooter Group: Members Posts: 871 Joined: 6-July 04 From: chesterfield derbyshire Member No.: 1206 |
I have 1 and I grow lots of veg onions,garlic, tom's and I also keep chickens and geese there.
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Jan 26 2010, 10:27 PM
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 Ace Pigeon Shooter Group: Members Posts: 1212 Joined: 11-January 09 From: manchester Member No.: 15044 |
i did have one but the police took it of me...i still say they were tomato seeds i put in.
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Jan 26 2010, 10:33 PM
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Dead Eye Pigeon Shooter Group: Members Posts: 304 Joined: 30-November 09 From: Barnsley south yorkshire Member No.: 20222 |
QUOTE (pyr8 @ Jan 26 2010, 10:32 PM)  i did have one but the police took it of me...i still say they were tomato seeds i put in. 
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