Hi everyone,
Just found the website today and registered. Wanted to say hello and also hoping to get some sort of guidance
We're a family of 4 - me, my wife and our two boys (4, and 1). We moved to Scotland, just outside of Edinburgh, a year ago. The idea was to settle down here and then get a smallholding as a rental and eventually buy. The long term plan is to use have land where we can keep poultry, pigs and potentially a milk cow. Also, want to have a garden for vegetables and fruit.
In the short run, we wanted to start out with poultry to slowly learn as well as teach our kids how little chicks grow up and start laying eggs, etc. Where we currently live the landlord does not allow even a single chick to exist within the property so that is what restarted our search to look for a smallholding.
I have a software business where most of my work is remote but I sometimes do need to go into Edinburgh to see clients (once or twice a week at most). So the idea is to find a smallholding to rent in an area where it is easy to get to Edinburgh but also far off enough from city life so we can neighbors who have their own smallholdings. Problem is, we don't even know where to look (rightmove does not seem to be the ideal place for these kind of properties?).
Anyway, sorry for the long winded post. Hoping to get the ball rolling on this soon. Feel free to ask any questions you guys might have for me as well
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Regards,
Nico