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Cheers, will put it up for sale again asap.

So burying in a hole as per a cat hole/compost toilet on the same land not on veges = A ok and the proper bushscraft way and when it is put on vegetables on the same land then it is suddenly polluting waterways and criminal? Also you have no idea how close or not I would be doing it to...

Why the hurry? Because I wasted most of my life not taking life by the horns. No intention of just sitting things out for another year plus I want to start my journey to self sufficiency right away. I am sure the crofters of yore didn't sit around for a year not eating waiting for the perfect...

I want to live in isolation, for reasons I am not going to bother to go into here, so other human interaction limited to minimum. So no courses or mentorship.

Another issue that has arisen is the places I was walking daily have become a sodden mess caking me in mud like the final days of a several day festival. I have taken to walking on other parts since, aside from the planted trees, there is little to tread on right now but it will become more...

I starter making a 'hurdle' type bed today then after putting up the posts, having not filled them in I suddenly thought what a terrible waste of my very limited wood supply! I then started digging up the rushes and other detritus to clear a space for a lazy bed. Seems a much better way to go...

Are there any books about the history of what our antecedents ate through the ages? I am well aware of what the humanure and general wisdom is on humanure - only after a year but I want to take the short cut. Yes there are some stories of contaimination but I tend to think that would be due to...

Thanks again! Ah I am well familiar with making raised beds! Did that a lot when volunteering. It was also on a slope and was never that interested to ask why we did that. So that is their purpose? To allow drainage in otherwise poorly draining soil? Where I was volunteering we would to three...

Thanks. Well I am not hard set on oats. I actually had got a bit tired of them recently and was buying a range of alternative ones and there were quite a lot of different grains that I liked such as toasted wheat flakes. Can't recall others. So if there are easier suggestions I would be open...

Actually... What would be involved if wanting to be 100% self-sufficient for food on approximately 2 acres of land considering not only the boggy land but a fully vegan diet so no animals or dairy? My main staples are oats and rice which I eat probably a couple of kilos per week. So could they...

Well the main reason I got it was just to escape other humans so gave little thought to how I would actually pass the time once on it. From recommendations garnered here so far based on the land type I have planted trees, namely willow. I am getting more into woodworking so thinking maybe that...

Revisiting this thread I have planted most of the open land now with willow, about 2/3s. There is a corner which gets premium sunshine so I have been hesitant to just plant more trees on the prime real estate. I have not however thought of better things to do with it as yet given I feel...

Chicken or the egg. She had already got her heckles up due to my appearance so I was fighting an uphill battle from the get go and that line of questioning with the antagonistic attitude put me of the back foot. I guess you will also side with her 'if you are on the back foot you had something...

At the risk of being inflammatory that could have read just out of the ukip playbook! I am pretty a-political btw just thought it read funny.

Ok so there is far more willow than I initially thought on the land. Many small shoots dotted around the field and also realized a huge one on the field today which I had been walking past day to day not knowing what it was, must be 6+ metres spread across with no other trees competing with it...

I relate to this a lot. I look like a thief to anyone who is quick to judge. 'Chavvy' clothes. I am not going to wear my bests for walking in some muddy woodland. As I don't dress like a tory out for a shoot in hunting gear they do not like it. I have been asked what I am up to on several...

I think I will scrape that idea altogether. No need for it and have a bivvy tent in a pinch if it came to it. I will instead focus on developing the land. I am thinking a good starter project with wood is make a compost bay. Thinking just ram some stakes into the ground to form a perimeter...

I am well aware of that little tidbit. I had them crawling all over my van the other week however they seem to have calmed down now fingers crossed. I am guessing they either died off in the cold spell we had or have found some places to nest in the meantime while I was away. Someone said it...

Yes when I made a hole to put one of the posts in yesterday as soon as I got down over about 1ft then I was in to clay.

Ok so rather big change in objective, but based on 'getting to know the land' as @Toddy had recommended. I had been clearing a big part of brambles as I thought I would site it there. I then started thinking to myself about these two big piles of brash and all the droppings in the area. I...