If you missed the national news on Essex, you may have missed the floods. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-23831558
It was wet.
You can see the water pouring out of the gutter. This is because we filled all 3,000 litres of the IBCs in a couple of hours. The water pouring out is actually overflow because it has nowhere to go.
To the left, you’ll see the chicken coop project I hoped to start today.
Under the squash leaves, it’s a foot deep.
I'm Tim, a 31yr old ex-Allotmenteer. My wife and I used to have a small 5 rod plot in South Essex where we grew all manner of veg. I'm also involved in brewing the odd keg of beer.
When getting down the allotment got too hard and our circumstances changed we bought a house with a 65ftx30ft garden, which we're converting into a mini orchard and veg beds.
We get up to some weird and wonderful projects - we've built a small boat, a pig roaster (powered by a windscreen wiper), a chicken run, raised beds and try our hands at all sorts of stuff getting us closer to being 'self sufficientish'.
The hope is to introduce chickens soon and hopefully let them free range during the day.
If you want to contact me, you can do so here
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