To Blog or Not To Blog?

that is the question! Well luckily for all you readers we've decided to set up this blog to share with you the trials and tribulations of our new mini farm.

Before I go any further I must say a huge thank you to Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall for starting up the brilliant Landshare scheme.

http://landshare.channel4.com/

If you wanted to skip reading about the Landshare project then, briefly, this is how it works: A landowner, helper or grower posts a listing on the Landshare site stating what they are looking for or offering, this connects interested parties in their area and before you know it the adventure has begun!

So after seeing Landshare introduced on the River Cottage TV programme we signed up. (I must add at this point for those who don't know us that we live in an apartment in Newport, Shropshire and thus don't have any garden/land to grow anything on). At the start of August 2009, we made contact with a chap called Paul who had a patch of land at Oulton, near Norbury Junction (about a 1/4 of an acre and just a few miles up the road) so after the initial look around we accepted Paul’s offer of the land and then went away all excited and not being able to sleep (Well Nik didn't sleep, I had no problems at all!).

Anyway here is a picture of the land (well some of it)