Sallygarden Smallholding - The Forum For Sustainable Living

It's always a question I'm asked, how do we make ends meet? What do others do in order to keep the cash flowing?

Well we don't need much of it since we grow all our own food. We do need money for animal feeds and diesel for the car, and clothes, and hols and entertainment if we want to go out.

Giving smallholding courses and tours is one small area of income, along with a steady flow of orders on the ebooklets we sell on rearing of pigs, goats, rabbits, vegetables, chickens etc. Dan also works from home with his www.hobbyhorsetoys.com business, making childrens toys. I've also been pitching article ideas to various sustainable living and gardening magazines lately and working on some writing. As well as the smallholding courses I offer feltmaking craft courses.

Making it all a lot easier is the rental income from my mothers 2 bed apartment in Dublin. We are aiming to get to a point where we don't have to rely on that at all and we're not far off it now.