Hi Cara, yes you are: cute and ginger. I'm definitely assuming you're not the gray fluffy one.
I never heard of "smallholding" before - it'd be interesting to do a quick study and find out why we call "homesteading" by that name.
The articles on suburban homesteading are great! It definitely is a whole different challenge from homesteading on a more normal-sized plot of land.
We're on the way to having a miniature smallholding ourselves: it's funny how we keep losing more grass as the yard gets turned into other projects. Though it'd be a fight with the city for us to keep chickens even though the state has made them technically legal as long as we demonstrate intent to sell the eggs. Plants for the foreseeable future, then!
You never know, the chickens might be more intellectual than you think here! 😉
I never thought I'd be the sort to remove our lawn, but here I am. To think that at one point we were considering a fake one!
Ben is definitely appreciating the reduced mowing; but I don't think he's noticed yet that by replacing the lawn with garden, it does take quite a bit more overall work - weeding, planing, enriching the soil, harvesting, etc.
Yes! Traditional lawns end up being very nutrient deficient. So hard too grow anything where they were the first year or two.