Home grown….

[Tony Nitrous]

As part of my Off Grid / Escape from the city, I’ve cleared a couple of areas in my yard.

One is a slowly growing 15m x 15m veggie patch. The other is a 15m x 15m hen pen that I’ve planted a couple of trees in and I’m slowly building a little hen house. I will get some hens in a month or two.

Neither are that impressive, but I’m finding it very therapeutic despite being hard work with my health issues.

Much as I love my bikes, projects, workshop it’s nice to do something different.

Last night we had pumpkin soup garnished with spring onions and capsicum’s.

Life has been hard, I’ve renovated and moved house several times over the last 40 years, married, divorced, moved countries, had some hard jobs, but at 60 I’m slowly starting to see some reward.

Pumpkin soup never tasted so good.

 

[mabupa]

This is my goal and I keep telling myself I shouldn’t wait until I’m too old to buy a piece of land, some chickens and eat fresh eggs and veggies from the backyard.
You sure have a nice property!!!!

 

[Tony Nitrous]

This is my goal and I keep telling myself I shouldn’t wait until I’m too old to buy a piece of land, some chickens and eat fresh eggs and veggies from the backyard.
You sure have a nice property!!!!

Thanks.

It’d been a long term plan for us, but a few years back everything changed and we decided the time was right. Kids finished Uni and moved out, Covid hit and my wife’s employer got rid of their offices and went for a permanent work from home system, I was just old enough to cash in a private pension. I’d really loved to have done it sooner too, but I couldn’t get what I wanted up until then.

 

[Bumblebee]

As part of my Off Grid / Escape from the city, I’ve cleared a couple of areas in my yard.

One is a slowly growing 15m x 15m veggie patch. The other is a 15m x 15m hen pen that I’ve planted a couple of trees in and I’m slowly building a little hen house. I will get some hens in a month or two.

Neither are that impressive, but I’m finding it very therapeutic despite being hard work with my health issues.

Much as I love my bikes, projects, workshop it’s nice to do something different.

Last night we had pumpkin soup garnished with spring onions and capsicum’s.

Life has been hard, I’ve renovated and moved house several times over the last 40 years, married, divorced, moved countries, had some hard jobs, but at 60 I’m slowly starting to see some reward.

Pumpkin soup never tasted so good.

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Awesome......

Love the tractor

 

[WuzzaCBXRider]

I’m envious! Nice place.

 

[Tony Nitrous]

Awesome......

Love the tractor

I looked at some newer ones and different brands, but I come from a family of farmers and we always had Fergies, they are to my father like Suzuki bikes are to me.

I like the little 135’s. Pretty old but solid. Sold globally, many still working today, common around here with market gardens and smaller properties, 2.5ltr 3 cylinder Perkins diesel. It’s about 50 years old but I walked into the nearest parts store and oil filters, air filters, fuel filters, even a seat and steering wheel were sat on the shelf !

 

[Bumblebee]

I looked at some newer ones and different brands, but I come from a family of farmers and we always had Fergies, they are to my father like Suzuki bikes are to me.

I like the little 135’s. Pretty old but solid. Sold globally, many still working today, common around here with market gardens and smaller properties, 2.5ltr 3 cylinder Perkins diesel. It’s about 50 years old but I walked into the nearest parts store and oil filters, air filters, fuel filters, even a seat and steering wheel were sat on the shelf !

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Growing up on a farm myself and we mainly had Masseys as well.....we had a Cockshut and a little Ford 8N also that I mostly used....

We even had an old steel wheel Massey Harris that we used to drive our sawmill with a belt.....I never had much to do with that because it was a real bear to operate.

 

[Tony Nitrous]

Picked these 4 up this morning. ISA Brown crosses. Only young, not laying yet. I don’t think they have ever seen grass or open spaces before. My wife clipped their wings and they just stood there confused and not sure what was going on.
As least they are smart enough to get out of the sun into the shade !
I like having hens, funny little things.
One little step more towards my semi-self sufficient goal.

 

[Tony Nitrous]

I’m easily pleased.
I could sit and watch them for hours.
My sort of therapy!

 

[Bumblebee]

I’m easily pleased.
I could sit and watch them for hours.
My sort of therapy!

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Growing up we had a chicken coop and one of my chores was to gather eggs....

There was an outside pen to separate the rooster from the hens and had to go through it to get into the coop and this was the roosters' territory.....I honestly think my dad set it up like this so he'd get some entertainment when we went through the outer pen to get to the coop because the rooster was territorial....and he'd put the hurt on you....

When the time came to eat him........I had two helpings....

 

[Tony Nitrous]

They’ve started laying.

 

[WuzzaCBXRider]

This thread title doesn’t remind me of chickens.

 

[Oz22]

This thread title doesn’t remind me of chickens.

Actually, it wouldn't matter if it was about astrophysics, a doper will always find a relationship between the two and go out to the garage and pull some more cones

 

[Oz22]

Last night we had pumpkin soup garnished with spring onions and capsicum’s.

Life has been hard, I’ve renovated and moved house several times over the last 40 years, married, divorced, moved countries, had some hard jobs, but at 60 I’m slowly starting to see some reward.



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They look like mild chilies? A love them as well and have some plots in my garden where I sort of let them grow wild. End up with way more than I can use, and unfortunately they are not like eggs either, the neighbors want no part of them