For those who dream of living on a smallholding or homestead, we've started a new YouTube series on how to stop dreaming about the Good Life - and start living it.
So you want to live on a Homestead?
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Le Loup
Settler
Good post, looking forward to follow up videos on this.
Keith.
Thank you both. We've been doing thus full time for more than a decade now and get asked a huge amount of questions by people who really, really want a different life. There's seems to be a combination of;
Not knowing where to start
Money worries
Fear of failure
We really want to make this series to demystify the subject & encourage others to experience the contentment that we enjoy.
Not knowing where to start
Money worries
Fear of failure
We really want to make this series to demystify the subject & encourage others to experience the contentment that we enjoy.
For those who enjoyed the first episode, tonight's focuses on;
Three lifestyle choices to live a country life
How much land do I need for a smallholding?
What type if outbuildings you will need
We hope its enjoyable
Hugh
Three lifestyle choices to live a country life
How much land do I need for a smallholding?
What type if outbuildings you will need
We hope its enjoyable
Hugh
Worth a watch from my block of flats replete with the obligatory anti-social neighbour I guess. I can but dream. Right now my blessed plot is getting flooded, well it is a flood plain after all.
One of our future videos will be on money, location & services. We know people who have bought a place with a couple of acres for £5k, others farming on peppercorn rents from land bodies or crofts. Its never easy but there are ways to do it - but with some life altering choices!
Lack of the readies is my problem. There is a 6,1/2 acre field for sale locally and its £75,5000!
A small private allotment sold for £9,000. I know the seller, and know they bought it ten years ago for £750. It's gone crazy round here price wise.
Since lockdown in march house prices have shot up 7%
A small private allotment sold for £9,000. I know the seller, and know they bought it ten years ago for £750. It's gone crazy round here price wise.
Since lockdown in march house prices have shot up 7%
Its the law of supply & demand now in the UK. There are more people on the island than ever in history, more than it can support, so more people chase what land there is. Oddly land rental can still be affordable for small parcels and homestead size parcels are much cheaper in other countries. Let's face it, history is full of people moving abroad for land!
My YouTube guilty pleasure is US verisions of this so will caught up on these.
Your House looks like the original river cottage.
Your House looks like the original river cottage.
Le Loup
Settler
Thank you. We aren't certain as to its age. Its documented in the 1700s but an expert looking at the (hand made) bricks believed it to be a good 100 years earlier than that. People weren't so hot on documenting Fen cottages then!
This is lovely. My name is Chi. Me and my husband decided to close up our business in the city and move to the countryside and try sustainability living off the grid, in Luapula, Zambia. Homesteading is not something very popular in our country, so it was quite a gamble.
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