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    Part-time "hobby farming" on 3-5 acres?

    Not even for your pets ;)
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    Baby Steps!

    Get him starts on the easy stuff and hat gives lots, so the novelty doesn't wear off. Trees and bushes are great and low maintainance.
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    Composting toilet

    Composting toilets can be great but have to be done properly and cleared often enough :) The main thing is ventilation and getting it dried out. Once dry you have no bugs and no smell. A friend has one and built it as part of his water heating system. He has a huge fire to heat water in an old...
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    Part-time "hobby farming" on 3-5 acres?

    Hiya. Trying to do too many things on a small space can turn into too much work and take away the enjoyment. Keep it simple at first. The chickens are easy and then think on selling or trading eggs for other things you want such as milk. Plan the garden around easy to store stuff and then things...
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    Clever, fast way of separating kernals from cobs

    Wish I'd seen this before! Have done thousands of cobs by hand ;(
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    Hello from Yaya

    8.5 million of us have left the country........
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    Hello from Yaya

    No but there are a lot of us escaping. 9 in the small town I am in alone!!!
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    Heating the house with sunlight?

    Hi. U r thinking of Trombe walls. I also thought of a solar oven type of idea that feeds the heat into the house....
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    Hello from Yaya

    Thanks guys for your replies. Have been busy..... I guess I will get used to it. Eventually. From south Africa. While the climate is lovely,there are too many other things wrong with that place. Change is good and you are right. Treat everything as an adventure :)
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    Ideas/ways to re-use/recycle "rubbish"?

    I find the waste in the first world appalling! People throw out all sorts of useful stuff! But I have nowhere to keep anything..... :( there was a leather couch lying in a ditch the other day...nothing wrong with it????
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    Hello from Yaya

    Thanks. Hoping to learn from you guys.
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    Hello from Yaya

    Hi. Alex Yaya. Just moved to a very cold Ireland from Africa. I am trying to get a handle on growing food in this climate and be more self sufficient in a small back yard scenario, while renting. Always grown my own veg and kept animals for meat, chickens for eggs etc. For now i just have some...
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    Heating with wood burners/fire places only?

    And if you're not too fussed with looks,they can be created from old geysers or gas bottles :)
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    Heating with wood burners/fire places only?

    Hi. Recently moved to Europe and not used to the cold! Always had wood burners before and am hating central heating and oil burners! Wood is great and eco friendly too, as a tree has been taking in carbon dioxide and creating oxygen. A carbon neutral fuel :) Even better is topping tree's, then...
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