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Millsy

  • Joined Feb 2016
buying a small holding soon?
« on: February 16, 2016, 10:22:24 am »
Hi to all on the forum,

I have been following discussions on the site for sometime and have now registered to allow me to ask my first question, soon to be posted.
My wife and I are retiring this year (early retirement  :excited:) and plan to buy a small holding in partnership with our son, his wife and our, soon to be one year old, granddaughter.

We are looking forward to exciting times.

Simon

Rosemary

  • Joined Oct 2007
  • Barry, Angus, Scotland
    • The Accidental Smallholder
Re: buying a small holding soon?
« Reply #1 on: February 16, 2016, 11:14:20 am »
Congratulations!

We share our smallholding (12 acres plus bits of rented) with my parents-in-law and it works very well. TBH we would have struggled to do half of what we have done without them. Theyhave their cottage next to us; it was built in 2011 and is disabled accessible so that when they aren't so able, we can keep an eye on them but they'll be independent as long as possible.

henchard

  • Joined Dec 2010
  • Carmarthenshire
    • Two Retirees Start a New Life in Wales
    • Facebook
Re: buying a small holding soon?
« Reply #2 on: February 16, 2016, 11:57:00 am »
Welcome; do you know which area you might be looking to live in?

devonlady

  • Joined Aug 2014
Re: buying a small holding soon?
« Reply #3 on: February 16, 2016, 12:58:02 pm »
Happy hunting! and hello from Devon.

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: buying a small holding soon?
« Reply #4 on: February 16, 2016, 03:10:11 pm »
What a lovely plan :)

Happy hunting!
Don't listen to the money men - they know the price of everything and the value of nothing

Live in a cohousing community with small farm for our own use.  Dairy cows (rearing their own calves for beef), pigs, sheep for meat and fleece, ducks and hens for eggs, veg and fruit growing

Millsy

  • Joined Feb 2016
Re: buying a small holding soon?
« Reply #5 on: February 16, 2016, 06:59:15 pm »
Thank you for your messages, in reply to Henchard, we are looking in the Shropshire/Herefordshire area as my son will have to commute to the south Birmingham area.

DavidandCollette

  • Joined Dec 2012
Re: buying a small holding soon?
« Reply #6 on: February 16, 2016, 07:19:30 pm »
 :wave: Welcome from North Lincolnshire

waterbuffalofarmer

  • Joined Apr 2014
  • Mid Wales
  • Owner of 61 Mediterranean water buffaloes
Re: buying a small holding soon?
« Reply #7 on: February 16, 2016, 08:08:32 pm »
Hi and welcome from Mid Wales :wave: It all sounds very exciting, I hope you find what you would like and keep us updated?
the most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, loving concern.

MarthaR

  • Joined Sep 2013
  • Near Abergavenny, South Wales
Re: buying a small holding soon?
« Reply #8 on: February 16, 2016, 08:34:10 pm »
Lovely part of the world - not far from me and my Smallholding near Abergavenny.  :wave:

Lesley Silvester

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • Telford
Re: buying a small holding soon?
« Reply #9 on: February 17, 2016, 12:50:35 am »
 :wave: and welcome from Shropshire.

Bramblecot

  • Joined Jul 2008
Re: buying a small holding soon?
« Reply #10 on: February 17, 2016, 07:39:16 pm »
 :wave: Welcome from West Dorset.

Tudful Tamworths

  • Joined Aug 2009
    • Liz's website
Re: buying a small holding soon?
« Reply #11 on: February 18, 2016, 07:41:07 pm »
Keep us posted re. how you get on. Come on a course at www.humblebynature.com if you want a feel of what it's all about. Best of luck with the search.
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Author of the Haynes Pig Manual, Haynes Smallholding Manual, and the Haynes Sheep Manual. Three times winner of the Tamworth Champion of Champions. Teaching smallholding courses at Kate Humble's farm: www.humblebynature.com

 

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