The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Smallholding => Land Management => Topic started by: SallyintNorth on April 23, 2018, 11:27:44 pm
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I thought I'd be writing a scathing 'in the real world' response to this (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5640191/How-letting-Mother-Nature-reclaim-prime-farmland-produced-breathtaking-results.html) - but actually I loved it.
(Note, they have 3500 acres - so you could argue it's pointless us reading it on a Smallholding site! :D)
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This place was featured on Countryfile, or was it Landward, a few weeks back. It's a lovely place, and how wonderful to be able to do that and still have enough to live on. Being cynical, I don't suppose they bought the farm themselves as you couldn't pay off such a huge area of land with just a few Longhorn cattle and some grants. On the other hand it sounds a wonderful place, and a lovely life being able to float about just letting the land get on with going back to Nature.
It is relevant to smallholding, especially if you inherited your land, or bought it outright, and don't need to make a living from it. In a way it's what we are doing in small corners of our land, except we are giving Nature a helping hand so we can see the results while we're still around. However, the scale is down by a couple of zeros here.