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Hatepe (R.I.P.)
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Every man should have an allotment, hen pen and a shed to hide away from the daily troubles and strife. The first root of new potatoes, the first boiling of broad beans and the taste of a home grown lettuce, and if you are lucky in Barlick the smell and taste of a tomato grown with love and careful attention. (Damned things grow wild outside here in Auckland!!!) But the ability to have a comfy old chair in the shed, away from the wife and childer, happen a small pot belly stove and the ability to brew a billy of tea, so what more does a man want???? Even bringing the pullets up to lay and the excitement of finding the first egg (These are pullets Stevie not old boiling hens!!!) and taking the egg home and saying "Look what I've got....." That is almost Utopia in'it????? Aye Hatepe
R.W.King
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Stanley
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Posted - 17/08/2009 : 05:57
In Barlick it is always 'the pen'. Probably because more people used them for keeping hens than gardening, they usually did that at home.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Tizer
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Posted - 17/08/2009 : 12:52
The old greenhouses on the plots were like something out of a National Trust garden - wonderful structures and heated by big boilers and pipes. Alongside, there were old water tanks sunk into the ground on a slope and fed by a spring so that the water overflowed from one tank to the next. The tanks were teeming with tadpoles in spring. No signs of environmental degradation there!
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Stanley
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Posted - 17/08/2009 : 16:27
Same principle as terraced paddy fields.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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The Artful Bodger
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Posted - 17/08/2009 : 23:13
On the farm where I grew up we had various 'sheds' and 'houses' and also a 'hut' or two.
The cows were milked in the 'cow shed' except that in later years boys learned it was easier to take the bucket to the cow and milk her where she stood than to have to continually clean the 'cow shed'.
Sheep were shorn in the 'shearing shed' and of course there were such things as tthe 'tractor shed', the 'implement shed' and the 'hay shed(s)'.
There were other special buildings including 'the forge' which had been a blacksmiths but became a general repair shop. Grain and other feedstocks were kept in the 'grainery'.
Dogs, up to 20 sometimes, lived in kennels and pigs lived in their sty.
Children played in their 'tree hut'.
Now chooks, well chooks were special they got to live in a 'house' like people, chooks in the 'chook house' and people in 'the house', but not all people as boys got to live in their 'hut'.
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Posted - 18/08/2009 : 03:59
Watched a program on plots and community gardens in the US, it is becoming a big thing, I think the featured city was Chicago. The idea ( like its a new thing) is being promoted here in Canada. It may well be the only way to fight the coming shortage of food, we can all get healthy again by eating real food. Was in a discussion about "engineered" foods the other day, the point of discussion was that 80% of crops no longer reproduce, and new engineered seeds have to be purchased.
HERB
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Stanley
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Posted - 18/08/2009 : 06:43
Tim Lang from City University, a man who really does know his stuff, reckons that the fastest start to a new attitude to food is to encourage locally grown food both on pens and in market gardens close to towns. Cuts down on inputs, increases freshness and if the supermarkets can be cut out reduces the costs significanltly. In order to make it profitable the cathedrals of choice have to impose tremendous mark-ups. In some cases I think it may be as much as 75% or even more because the prices at Chaudry's in the Town Square are typically half of what they are at the Co-op. and they are buying in the same wholesale markets.
When I was open all hours at Sough we had to put 50% on to allow for wastage and we never made a fortune. The shorter the shelf to field time the less margin you need.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Tizer
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Posted - 18/08/2009 : 11:47
In the UK, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, one of the TV chefs, has being doing his bit by launching his Landshare programme to link people with land to spare to people with a need for land to grow their own food.
http://landshare.channel4.com/
http://www.rivercottage.net/landshare/
Edited by - Tizer on 18/08/2009 11:48:15
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Stanley
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Posted - 18/08/2009 : 16:51
And what a good idea..... There are stirrings in the undergrowth, perhaps it's the start of new thinking and some common sense. The logic of the arguments against supermarket sourcing of food is so powerful that in the end it must prevail.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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moh
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Posted - 02/09/2009 : 14:16
Dotcliffe mill was divided into top shed & bottom shed. (nice to see Bob's name up again - do you hear from his widow Stanley?)
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Julie in Norfolk
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Posted - 03/09/2009 : 06:05
Steve in Norfolk has benen going great guns since the Xmas fairy bought him a greenhouse a couple of years ago. Pottering around etc. The marvel this year with peppers as the first one went red! More tomatoes than a greedy Spaniel can steal.
We did the hen bit, the cockerel was too competitive and used to fly at Pheasants strolling down the garden to nick the bird food. Actually one particular pheasant had a damaged leg and used to goose step down the garden.
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Stanley
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Posted - 03/09/2009 : 07:19
No contact Moh. Hen eggs fed on worms have more Omega-3 than grain fed ones....
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Stanley
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Posted - 03/09/2009 : 17:17
Moh, I had contact today with Bob's family.
You may remember I am the older brother of the late Bob King. I cannot find anywhere on this site to advise change of details. We moved to Portsmouth, as daughter No.2 thought we were getting a bit long in the tooth!! (now coming up uo 87 years). Please advise powers that be, thank you. It would help if the site could have a section to do this, or am I missing summat? I am in regular touch with the King family in New Zealand, in fact his wife has just been over with her Sister to tour UK and Europe. I also wish to find out if Rene Ellsworth or little Billy Charnley are still alive.Doubtful but can you help?
Had an unusual experience some 12/15 years ago. Travelling in Northern Spain, went to book in at an hotel and found a UK couple, with broad Yorkshire accents, having language problems, so I translated for them. Turns out they were from Barlick and had an Electrical shop at the top of Gisburn Road, the lady turned out to be the Aunt of my old friend the late Stanley Strickland, who used to work for "pigeon milk" Broughton at the garage at the end of New Road. Best regards Paul G King. ( Profile PEKIN )
(I've passed the message to Doc.)
Stanley Challenger Graham
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