Last updated
05 February 2012
Quest for the Good Life 
Welcome to our downloads page. Here we have some simple files that can be used to either build a chicken house or set up a planting calendar. They are virus checked, but you should always make sure your machine is fully protected before downloading files.
Dig for Victory -
This is a copy of the original document which helped to grow more food in the nations gardens during the second world war. You can download and try it yourself.
Each page has a separate download so click on each one in turn.
We made our own chicken house because it was a lot cheaper, about 50% cheaper in fact. In addition we also learnt a lot about what chickens needed in terms of space, perch size, nest boxes etc.. It is still working well today and its occupants seem fine and healthy. If you would like to build the same or similar then feel free to download the pdf file.
With the decline of Bumble Bee numbers, we thought we would try to gather the best
information around to try and get Bumble Bees to use artificial boxes as nesting
sites. This pdf file shows the details as yet un-