The national trust are running a new project, where they are inviting 10,000 members of the public to run a farm for a year from the comfort of their own home.
The subscription is £30 for a year and you will get to vote in choosing what livestock and crops the farm has, how it's managed and used.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13276102
Become A Farmer With The National Trust
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Re: Become A Farmer With The National Trust
So you're paying yourself to run a farm!Ingenious! Any other "benefits"?
Re: Become A Farmer With The National Trust
Why not do Farmville instead,it'free.............and this sounds equally fatuous...
Re: Become A Farmer With The National Trust
Wasn't Chuck thinking of doing a game like this?
But he wasn't going to charge.
Mike
But he wasn't going to charge.
Mike
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Re: Become A Farmer With The National Trust
10,000 people, each paying £30 a year... £300,000 a YEAR ... I'll let people vote on running my mini-holding for half of that
Ann Pan
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some days you're the lamp-post"
My blog
My Tea Cosy Shop
Some photos
My eBay