Hi,
I Didn't know where to post this, so feel free to move it.
We have some land "mostly forest and a swampy bit" which we would like someone to work and create a smallholding from. This is the perfect opportunity for someone or a couple of motivated people to start from scratch and create something real, live of the land and build a small cabin/house to live in.
You would be building the house from the trees which you cut down, "with my help", clear the land and fence it, set up veg plots, work the land and maybe keep some small livestock.
Various tools and a tractor could be made available, the only thing which we would ask is that you help out on the main smallholding for 4ish hours per day, this work could entail, cutting firewood, helping with some building work, fencing, helping with the livestock, clearing paddocks, helping in the veg gardens, planting food, etc, etc.
The land is in southwest france and is situated within our small holding, "so you would in fact be creating a small, smallholding", the land available is around 5 acres.
Obviously this is just a tentative enquiry as to whether there are people out there who would be able and like to give this a try, we are looking to get this set up by the end of the year, but if we could find the right person/couple this timespan could be brought forward to summer/autumn.
The google earth reference is 46.044195, 1.318274 for those who would like to look at the area.
regards
william