Val has over 40 years experience as a smallholder in the West of England. She currently runs a flock of 20 Ouessant sheep and keeps hens and grows lots of veg. She formally lived on the Blackdown Hills in Somerset and ran the award winning business The Woolly Shepherd from 2006-2012 but is now based in Cornwall where she has lived since 2013. Follow life on this permaculture based holding where there is never a dull moment
Friday, October 09, 2009
Celebration time at Woolly Waste! We have been shortlisted for the Devon Environmental Business Awards!!!
We are now up against 3 other businesses for the Environmental Goods and Services Award!!! I am so chuffed as we have worked really hard to get this far. The next round is on the 20th of October when we get a visit from 4 judges for an hour and then we have to wait until the awards ceremony at the end of November to find out!
What else have we been up to? The Ouessant sheep are happily chomping their way through lots of lush autumn grass and Merinos is enjoying being top ram!
We have some volunteers arriving to do some mass vegetation clearance in the front garden.....and we have just turned half a tonne of waste wool and rugs, some pictured below, into fluff by putting it through our garnet machine. The 'fluff' in the bag is being used to insulate an eco house!!!
The pictures show the before, during and after!
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5 comments:
Fan-f**king-tastic Val! Bloody well done you. You're SO in with a good shot at winning I'm sure. What's the competition?
Gabrielle x
bloomin marvelous, well done! I guess those pictures are from the bottom up?
Well done, you have achieved a lot in a short time with your new business. Good Luck with the rest of the judging process.
No idea who the other shortlisted businesses are....we will find out at the awards night!
Blu...yes pics are from bottom up...took too long to try and get them the right way!!!
Wow! fingers crossed here,you deserve some recognition,you work so damned hard!
GTM x x x
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