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  'The measure of intelligence is the ability to change' -Albert Einstein So here I am, navigating the realms of the REALLY BIG World Wide Web. I am not at all techy. In fact, I am still a paper and pencil kinda girl.  I am much more au fait with getting my hands in the dirt or a hand inside a ewe than trying to work out what this is all about. Still, I will try. So a little about me/us/them. I am a mum in her late forties who has been smallholding for the last 18 years in more or less a conventional style of smallholding; set stocked or long rotation grazing, chickens in runs or free ranging 'wherever' and a passion for living the good life and using quality, well-cared for, respected foodstuffs, grown on the land, in the diets of her family. Finally, 3 1/2 years ago, after 15 years of renting small parcels of land, I managed to buy my own plot. A small plot by many standards but still, it was mine to do with what I wanted. 6.2 acres of lovely, secure land. My land. A ...