GeneralBobLopez
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- Location
- Birmingham, West Midlands, UK
Hi everyone!
I'm new on here and I'd love to hear any advice on finding land to lease. I've had a poke around in other bits of the forum, but still feel like I'm missing something. Seems like either hardly anyone is leasing out their land, or it doesnt exchange hands via the internet (or there's a bit of the dark web that newbies like me dont know about). I'm guessing that given a lot of people lease direct to neighbours/ others farmers in the area/ people they already know, there just isnt much that ends up getting advertised? I know that county councils have smallholding estates, but can't find anything on where they advertise their application processes.....
I'm looking for a small acreage to get started in mixed regen farming - the usual Salatino/ Richard Perkins type thing - pastured poultry, maybe cows, some veg, so I'd be looking for more pasture than arable (and of course some woods and little stream would be perfect - I can dream). Near as possible to South Birmingham (family commitments mean we can't move) - so mostly looking in North Worcestershire.
I don't have farming connections up here, as I grew up in West Wales, so don't have an obvious in to start asking around. I read somewhere to try asking auctioneers? I also read about driving around and asking at farms, but that feels a bit intrusive....
Any tips/ advice (or offers of rolling pasture with some woods and a stream, of course ) would be very much appreciated.
Cheers!
I'm new on here and I'd love to hear any advice on finding land to lease. I've had a poke around in other bits of the forum, but still feel like I'm missing something. Seems like either hardly anyone is leasing out their land, or it doesnt exchange hands via the internet (or there's a bit of the dark web that newbies like me dont know about). I'm guessing that given a lot of people lease direct to neighbours/ others farmers in the area/ people they already know, there just isnt much that ends up getting advertised? I know that county councils have smallholding estates, but can't find anything on where they advertise their application processes.....
I'm looking for a small acreage to get started in mixed regen farming - the usual Salatino/ Richard Perkins type thing - pastured poultry, maybe cows, some veg, so I'd be looking for more pasture than arable (and of course some woods and little stream would be perfect - I can dream). Near as possible to South Birmingham (family commitments mean we can't move) - so mostly looking in North Worcestershire.
I don't have farming connections up here, as I grew up in West Wales, so don't have an obvious in to start asking around. I read somewhere to try asking auctioneers? I also read about driving around and asking at farms, but that feels a bit intrusive....
Any tips/ advice (or offers of rolling pasture with some woods and a stream, of course ) would be very much appreciated.
Cheers!