Hi everyone, first of all sorry if this is in the wrong place Thank you to everyone that provided advice when we were looking for a property. We have now found it Fingers crossed in November we will be moving into our new house with 10 acres and room for our current business in Lincolnshire. Question is where on earth do I start? So please advise, I think baby steps bit by bit. Eventually we will be looking at sheep, pigs, poulty , and maybe even some lowland beef. Very small scale just enough for us and of course growing our own all organic. Please any advice on planning and book recomendations whilst I am awaiting the move would be great. thank you very much. First job I think will be clearing and preparing veg and fruit ground and fencing, I like Charles no dig approach
Hi Welcome to the site , what part of Lincolnshire are you hoping to be in ?
I suggest long before you go deep into the stock to read and read many times :-
Farm building construction by Blackwell Scientific . ( or a very similar sort of name ) as a book worth its weight in gold .
Do make written plans for everything .. The human neck top computer is very fallible despite what we like to think .
The book gives you food for thought about setting out your buildings ,planning & implementing the infra structure and also how to actually construct them.
I found that about the best way of starting our mammal was to write down what we wanted at the end of the day . Then design and plan in staged developments to accommodate it .
That way we didn't have to do the same work three or four times and have to change things & systems when we got bigger. Having a plan also meant that there was always something to do that could be fitted around our daily life . instead of always having to fight fires and try and build the enterprise in between .