We're townies by birth, but have accidentally fallen into a way of life that some people call the curse of sourcing.

It's the danger of being a foodie.

It's starts with cooking, then goes on to wanting to find the best - not the most expensive - ingredients available, and then snowballs into trying to control all your intake.

For us a vegetable plot came first; then chickens for eggs; then pigs for pork; and then chickens for meat.

The aim of course is self-sufficiency, but it ain't easy.