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mojocafa

  • Joined Sep 2012
  • Angus
Re: Starting out
« Reply #15 on: June 24, 2016, 12:16:24 am »
Agree with sbom,

Definetely ....

No neighbours is better than good neighbours

As many barns/sheds as you can't have enough

Good drainage would be my third only as I loathe mud!

Good luck!
pygmy goats, gsd, border collie, scots dumpys, cochins, araucanas, shetland ducks and geese,  marrans, and pea fowl in a pear tree.

Midgie

  • Joined Jun 2016
Re: Starting out
« Reply #16 on: June 26, 2016, 01:45:45 pm »
A property in Wigtown by Stranraer was just posted on the Accidental Smallholders Facebook page . It has 4 acres with scope to buy more and loads of good outbuildings and stables ????

Jullienne

  • Joined Apr 2016
Re: Starting out
« Reply #17 on: June 26, 2016, 03:36:57 pm »
 Hello and welcome to the forum from Wales! :wave:
My big top 3 would have to be.....
(1) A few good farm buildings available for storage with a hay barn or shed to put feed in for animals (not forgetting suitable buildings for housing in case weather is really bad).
(2) Somewhere which is quite breezy in the summer, to prevent too much fly strike, but not so you get gale force winds.
(3) and lastly but certainly not least..... good grazing with decent fencing and preferably land which doesn't need too much doing to it. ( this also includes a large garden for chickens and the like).
boast not yourself of tomorrow; for you know not what a day may bring forth. Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips. proverbs 27 verses 1-2.

Sra

  • Joined Jun 2016
Re: Starting out
« Reply #18 on: June 26, 2016, 10:27:21 pm »
Thanks guys

Looks like land and outbuildings are the common theme!

Going to struggle a bit now to sell my current house (fortunately I don't live in it) post referendum >:(. Guess I'm going to have to be patient and just hope things fall into place.

Determined to do it might just take a bit longer now!

 

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