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The Old Crofters

  • Joined Jun 2013
  • Leicestershire
Hi, my first post
« 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?

Rosemary

  • Joined Oct 2007
  • Barry, Angus, Scotland
    • The Accidental Smallholder
Re: Hi, my first post
« Reply #1 on: May 27, 2014, 08:34:39 am »
Hello and welcome from Carnoustie.

sabrina

  • Joined Nov 2008
Re: Hi, my first post
« Reply #2 on: May 27, 2014, 09:27:46 am »
Hi and welcome from Aberdeenshire  :wave:

Treud na Mara

  • Joined Mar 2014
  • East Clyh, Caithness
  • Living the dream in Caithness
Re: Hi, my first post
« Reply #3 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:
With 1 Angora and now 6 pygmy goats, Jacob & Icelandic sheep, chooks, a cat and my very own Duracell bunny aka BH !

Porterlauren

  • Joined Apr 2014
Re: Hi, my first post
« Reply #4 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. . . . .

Possum

  • Joined Feb 2012
  • Somerset
Re: Hi, my first post
« Reply #5 on: May 27, 2014, 09:52:12 pm »
Hello and welcome from Somerset. :wave:


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

Lesley Silvester

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • Telford
Re: Hi, my first post
« Reply #6 on: May 27, 2014, 10:34:45 pm »
 :wave: and welcome from Shropshire.

plumseverywhere

  • Joined Apr 2013
  • Worcestershire
    • Its Baaath Time
    • Facebook
Re: Hi, my first post
« Reply #7 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  :)
Smallholding in Worcestershire, making goats milk soap for www.itsbaaathtime.com and mum to 4 girls,  goats, sheep, chickens, dog, cat and garden snails...

Meh!

  • Joined Jul 2010
  • West Lothian
Re: Hi, my first post
« Reply #8 on: May 28, 2014, 10:33:17 pm »
Hi From Bathgate!

waterbuffalofarmer

  • Joined Apr 2014
  • Mid Wales
  • Owner of 61 Mediterranean water buffaloes
Re: Hi, my first post
« Reply #9 on: May 28, 2014, 10:51:41 pm »
Hi from Ceredigion
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