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Hello fellow self-sustainers..
My wife and i are in a bit of a quandary. We have a smallholding consisting of goats, chickens and ducks. We started this while in Derbyshire, however, due to my work we relocated to Somerset(England), but the animals are in Devon. We are on the hunt for somewhere to let/lease long term with at least an acre of ground with something resembling a home for us. We are not concerned about modcons as we had only a Rayburn before. We extended the original shed we had there out of our own hands for the goats and confined them to strip-grazing with electric fencing which worked very well. We made from scratch a large duck house and a chicken house. We have tried all the usual routes under estate agents but there really is not anthing suitable or is way over our price range with fantastic modern home with gizmos! We are basic and wish to be so....Colin has done an A.I. course and aims to not only serve our own goats but possibly have a secondary business....Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thankyou

Hi there and welcome

Hi and welcome

Sadly, such estates in this part of the world are hard to come by. As you've already identified, any large piece of land with a dwelling on it will have been snapped up by property developers by now. The only option may be to settle on a suitable house and then buy or lease a field near by. Pieces of land do come up on the normal property websites from time to time but a friend of mine had the best results from putting an advert in a local paper asking for land to rent/buy.

Good luck
Zoe

Hello and welcome. Can't help any but hope it all works out for you

Welcome abroad, I wish you a pleasant stay and a nice posting