Our week hosting @SmallholdersUK Twitter account
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Our island is very isolated, remote and tranquil so it’s no surprise that living on Eday can sometimes make us feel like true castaways - often times it’s just us, the sea, the wind and the wildlife and we get so wrapped up in this experience that it truly feels there is nothing and nobody else in the world. This, of course, is not the case and we are lucky that we have a decent access to the internet which has become our portal to the world and a great tool for connecting and finding interesting and knowledgeable people.
In June we had a very exciting experience of hosting the Highlands & Islands Voices twitter account. The response to our stories has been amazing and it reminded us that there are so many like-minded people out there, who appreciate our sense of adventure and the simple things in life. It has also demonstrated the power of Twitter in finding friends who are genuinely supportive and knowledgeable - after all, that’s exactly how we met our friend and an awesome smallholder Liz Zorab back in the day!
Straight after our week on @H&I_Voices we started looking for other collaborative community accounts that we could host, sharing more of our life with the world and connecting with even more people. That’s when we found the UK Smallholder’s Twitter account. Yes, we are smallholders - well, at least we aspire to be - so it was perfect! We contacted the admins and had a week in July dedicated to us.
The time flew by and before we knew it it was 16th of July, time for us to log in as @SmallholdersUK. Although we’re still working on our gardens, we only just hatched our first chickens and we’re extremely new at the self-sufficiency game so there was probably not a lot that anybody learned from us, we had a ton of photos and stories to share and it was super fun!
Here are 77 tweets from our week hosting Smallholders UK Twitter account:
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22nd July came just as quickly and it was time for us to pass the reins to a new host on the account. It was a little sad really, as we learned so many hints, tips and tricks from other smallholders, picked up many recipe ideas and were reminded that Rome was not built in a day - so our garden will too take its time and that’s absolutely fine. One specific pearl of wisdom that I want to record here is that the dry stone walls used to protect the crops from sheep and wind in Orkney are called “crues”! So we might be building ourselves some crues next spring!
Well, I really hope that the world enjoyed our light-hearted and laid back approach to smallholding. Yes, we’re not experts but we do have a pet duck, two awesome puppies and we do make a lot of homebrew - and who wouldn’t like that? Besides, there is always next year, so perhaps we could host this awesome Twitter account again - a year older, wiser, more experienced and with a toddler helping us out!
In the meantime, we're back home on our own @HappyRemoteHome Twitter account where we share updates, stories, pictures, ideas and thoughts that not always make it into this blog or a video, so why not follow us there:
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