Farming in France

[Hobo]

Very interesting thread!
Any good homepages with farms for sale in France?

http://www.france-farms.com/
and some french links if you use Google chrome to open them it will give a rough translation
http://www.agriaffaires.com/occasion/1/immobilier.html
http://www.proprietes-rurales.com/fr/toutes_les_offres2.asp SAFER site
http://www.repertoireinstallation.com/relai.php?onglet=recherche Chambre d'Agriculture farm sales site

 

[Oaklake]

http://www.france-farms.com/
and some french links if you use Google chrome to open them it will give a rough translation
http://www.agriaffaires.com/occasion/1/immobilier.html
http://www.proprietes-rurales.com/fr/toutes_les_offres2.asp SAFER site
http://www.repertoireinstallation.com/relai.php?onglet=recherche Chambre d'Agriculture farm sales site

Merci beaucoup Monsieur Hobo!
Seems to me that the price of land are quite attractive. But then again land in the UK actually seems to be better value than here in Sweden for example.

 

[Matthew Britton]

No were not a client of David Wilson
And as far as I know David is no longer doing installations or farm sales

We went to see David and looked at farms with him a couple of years ago. Had an email from him last year to say that he had ceased all installations sales and advice to do other things. Not sure why.

 

[will l]

spreading pig muck with contractors tackle it is a 933 fendt and a 25 metre cube tanker,
last spring, far too wet yet this year.

 

[snowhite]

Love my life,my place. 5 more years and it's all mine. Looking out the door with the sun on the cows and calves, just walked the Triticale, kids on their bikes. Great, wouldn't change where I am for UK, no way.

how did you get so long to pay for it , lol we have 2.5 years to go ,

 

[snowhite]

I speak pretty good French (especially after a glass or two of Merlot) but I know I still wouldnt be able to get all the subtleties and nuances that we take for granted here when dealing everyday with those around us, so how does it work for you that have made the move ? Were you fluent before you went ? Married to a native speaker ?

It's great that many have made the move successfully but I can quite see why so many move and then come back !

i and my husband know the word bonjour , and did not know the word au revoir the day we moved to france , and 90% of the time it is like liven in ireland as when you are on your own you don't need french to work wait cows


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[snowhite]

Do you have to speak french to the cows, or can you move them on in english ?

Whats "come on flower" in french ?!!!

the cows and the dogs are now bilingual

 

[snowhite]

Well, I lived in Switzerland for a year, so my accent is decidedly sing-song and definitely not Parisian
(ou Parisienne?!)....

i lived in switzerland as well for a year but was much younger then and picked up the german fast

 

[le bon paysan]

how did you get so long to pay for it , lol we have 2.5 years to go ,

15years

 

[neilo]

15years

Wow, have you really been foreign that long? How time flies, it doesn't seem anywhere near that long since your good lady was milking in Moreton.

 

[snowhite]

we are here 12 years 8th march 2001 , and are the only paddys around , there is a bigger fight for land here
than in your part of the country as any land that comes up here there is about 20 others trying to get in for it , being the first and only ex-pats here has not being easy

 

[le bon paysan]

we are here 12 years 8th march 2001 , and are the only paddys around , there is a bigger fight for land here
than in your part of the country as any land that comes up here there is about 20 others trying to get in for it , being the first and only ex-pats here has not being easy

There are a few Irish around here, but sometimes need a translator.

 

[le bon paysan]

Wow, have you really been foreign that long? How time flies, it doesn't seem anywhere near that long since your good lady was milking in Moreton.

Been here 10 yrs, 5yrs to left to pay on mortgage

 

[snowhite]

i heard there was a few paddys down there ,

 

[will l]

http://www.rafinfo.org.uk/rafescape/freteval/
this is a story of what happened here in the last war
maybe of interest to you francophiles

 

[snowhite]

i taught it was bad out of De Gall after the d day had started ,there was a English man that ran
the resistance movement in Le Lands HE organised over 80 arms drops from the UK and integrated in the area
as a french man it became his home , he was presented to De Gall after they had taken freedom ,DeGALL TOLD HIM there is not place here for outsiders, I don't know much about De Gall and I take what french people say with a grain of salt ,

 

[grumpy]

The French have never forgiven us for sinking there fleet at Oran but we had no choice

 

[snowhite]

Elmsted I have a question for you , before we made the move to France we looked at other countrys
like Canada and oz , we taught about Romanian and Poland at that time as it was the time a lot of people
where going out there , we wear told that in the night the locals would come and help them selves to all you have got and we taught that it would not be much good being rich in a poor country
Romania is one of the poorest places in the world , what is it like to live there

 

[Walterp]

The French have never forgiven us for sinking there fleet at Oran but we had no choice

Ouch!

Whenever Julie or I have enquired politely in the Loire valley about the War years, it seems easier to get a description of what happened in the First War, but no one wants to talk about the second one. At least, not to us. Our French teacher, originally from the Auvergne, remembers lots of Resistance activity and plenty of horrible stories of those caught by the Milice or the Gestapo.

Maybe it's all best forgotten, as the Axis powers (including Romania, until they saw the light...) are now our friends?


[Walterp re-reads his post carefully, and mumbles to himself: "Is the question mark in the right place, there?"]

 

[snowhite]

Ouch!

Whenever Julie or I have enquired politely in the Loire valley about the War years, it seems easier to get a description of what happened in the First War, but no one wants to talk about the second one. At least, not to us. Our French teacher, originally from the Auvergne, remembers lots of Resistance activity and plenty of horrible stories of those caught by the Milice or the Gestapo.

Maybe it's all best forgotten, as the Axis powers (including Romania, until they saw the light...) are now our friends?


[Walterp re-reads his post carefully, and mumbles to himself: "Is the question mark in the right place, there?"]

we find the same thing but we live in bretagne and the people her had the same idea as the irish , they taught the germans would give them there state back , and knowing some people from around here it is easy to see how France sent more french Jews to camps than the Germans did