Hi Michael, i like your idea and thinking, the country needs more people like you. (As does the government!). I think that at under ten thousand an acre you will have very stiff competition for this land. Not only from horsey folks with money to burn or farmers looking to expand, but to rich sods with money to invest in land who will rent it to another tenant farmer then cash it in for housing twenty years down the line. Much as I hate to mention their name, even Tesco could be interested, I've heard they are going to start building houses soon, damn them! Good luck with your idea and finding somewhere soon, and I hope you're posting this on lots of sites to spread the idea :@)