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Community => Introduce yourself => Topic started by: The Old Crofters on May 26, 2014, 07:58:45 pm

Title: Hi, my first post
Post by: The Old Crofters on May 26, 2014, 07:58:45 pm

Hi, this is my first post, and we are new to the smallholding business.  My partner and myself rent some land in Leicestershire.  We have some Dexter cattle, some Shetland and a few assorted sheep breeds, plus hens and Honey bees.  We are in our early fifties, and as someone else said, wished we'd done this 10 years ago!
We hope? to get a place of our own, but that is very dependent on what the kitty has! and what is out there (Probably a barn in a field to share with the animals!). Does anyone know of a smallholding with a small house (renovation kind, fine) in the Midlands or similar that is, or will be for sale?

Title: Re: Hi, my first post
Post by: Rosemary on May 27, 2014, 08:34:39 am

Hello and welcome from Carnoustie.

Title: Re: Hi, my first post
Post by: sabrina on May 27, 2014, 09:27:46 am

Hi and welcome from Aberdeenshire  :wave:

Title: Re: Hi, my first post
Post by: Treud na Mara on May 27, 2014, 10:22:29 am

Welcome, and if the kitty is small the further north you look the more it will get you  ;) :thumbsup:

Title: Re: Hi, my first post
Post by: Porterlauren on May 27, 2014, 12:00:52 pm

Welcome!

TM - Aye that's right, right up until everyone from England has moved up there looking for small holdings and the prices have gone through the roof lol.

They are certainly on the rise. . . . .

Title: Re: Hi, my first post
Post by: Possum on May 27, 2014, 09:52:12 pm

Hello and welcome from Somerset. :wave:


There is nothing wrong with starting in your 50's!

Title: Re: Hi, my first post
Post by: Lesley Silvester on May 27, 2014, 10:34:45 pm

 :wave: and welcome from Shropshire.

Title: Re: Hi, my first post
Post by: plumseverywhere on May 28, 2014, 01:32:17 pm

Hello from Worcestershire  :wave:

there's a few places coming up round here (evesham area) prices fluctuate depending on how close to the cotswolds border you get. I love dexters, farmer next door has some  :)

Title: Re: Hi, my first post
Post by: Meh! on May 28, 2014, 10:33:17 pm

Hi From Bathgate!

Title: Re: Hi, my first post
Post by: waterbuffalofarmer on May 28, 2014, 10:51:41 pm

Hi from Ceredigion