sara | October 13, 2009
David is a farmingfriends friend who lives in Cyprus and has been corresponding with me since the end of last year. I am always eager to read David’s letters as they are always full of such detail that you feel like you are actually there in the Troodoes mountains with David and his friends. Here [...]
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sara | August 27, 2009
David lives in Cyprus and is a farmingfriends friend who has been corresponding with me since the end of last year. I am always keen to read about life in Cyprus on the Troodos Mountains particularly as I have visited the Troodos mountains, so here is David’s fifth letter to me:
Hi Sara and all at [...]
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sara | August 13, 2009
I love to hear from other smallholder’s, farmers and animal lovers and it is especially nice when I get sent photos.
Here are Christina’s ducklings only about a week old in the brooder.
Here are the ducklings enjoying time outside in garden in their outdoor pen.
Here is the beginnings of the pond for the ducklings in Christina’s [...]
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sara | July 4, 2009
I have been invited to a 4th July BBQ here in the UK. I am delighted to be invited as I have never been to a 4th July celebration before and also it was really nice to be asked as Belinda and Gregg are new friends that I met through the farmingfriends website and my [...]
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sara | June 29, 2009
The other weekend we went to visit one of our friends and neighbours.
Daniel has pigs on his farm and here are some of the weaners in the pens he has set up for the pigs.
Daniel has 20 pig feeders for sale. He is located in the York to Hull area so if you are interested [...]
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sara | June 9, 2009
I was delighted to receive a phone call on Monday from Belinda and Gregg who bought 5 of my Saddleback weaners just over a week ago. They had found my advert for the pigs on the internet yet only lived in a neighbouring village, what a small world the world wide web can be!
A week [...]
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sara | June 7, 2009
My farmingfriend Steve who lives in Chiang Mai has a couple of Turkeys and would like to know what breeds they are as he bought them from a market in North Thailand and they didn’t tell him what the breeds were, so if anyone could help that would be great. Here are the young turkeys.
Steve [...]
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sara | June 6, 2009
Steve one of my ‘farmingfriends’ who lives in Chiang Mai sent me two photos of his guinea fowl he has named Amelia and Orville. He is unsure whether they are a male and a female.
Dear Sara, some updates on my flying friends, Amelia and Orville, from Chiang Mai and also a question. After too [...]
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sara | June 3, 2009
I am always delighted to hear from my farmingfriends friends so when a letter arrives from David in Cyprus I am always keen to read about life in Cyprus on the Troodoos Mountains, so here is David’s email:
Hi Sara
I cannot believe where the days have gone. It is now 1st June and I have not [...]
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sara | May 31, 2009
At the beginning of May I received an email from steve in Thailand who has a couple of guinea fowl.
Hi, I am English but live in Chiang Mai, Thailand where I settled due to tourism work. Years ago I bought some young guinea fowl and without effort they lived with our bantams, stayed around the [...]
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