Part of my motive for getting involved in the smallholding was to understand, and gain some experience of, the process in which animals are reared and processed to produce the steak or joint in the butchers. With this in mind, we recently took the pigs to slaughter at a local abattoir.
I wasn’t really sure how emotional this was [...]
As well as helping out on the smallholding, I have decided to keep a couple of chickens of my own in the back garden. The most satisfying outcome of this decision so far has been the construction of their run. I employed the help of a carpenter friend and we managed to create a pretty fantastic chicken house, working from [...]
I’ve been helping a friend out on his smallholding for the past few months; feeding the animals, mucking out, doing manual labour, that sort of stuff. I’m not really sure what my motives were for getting involved, but in retrospect I wanted to get into some skill based, anti-intellectual activities after studying for so long. [...]