Hi all,
We've been looking for a host farm to rent us 4 acres to set-up a market garden and short of knocking on farm doors we've tried all we can think of? We're not wedded to any particular part of the uk and have tried contacting:
Dozens of Dairy farms & Livestock farms
Farm shops with land but no veg grown on site
National trust
Forestry commission
Church of England
Land websites
We're always in competition with the 1000's of equine interests and we invariably get priced out - understandable in some respects but incredibly frustrating.
Our needs aren't particularly straightforward in that we need an electricity supply, water supply (we'd meter both and pay for that) and either the use of 55-60m2 of covered space or permission to build it ourselves (i'm a timber framer / tree surgeon / builder by trade).
We've offered to take a leave no trace approach and commit to returning the land and buildings to their current state but we're struggling to find anything. We have a £50k start-up loan business approved and ready to go but the window for us to accept is approaching. We'd be looking for a 6 year tenancy - 5 to cover the loan repayment period and an extra year to get moved on if we all decided that it was time to do so at that point.
Where else could we try?
Thanks for reading!
We've been looking for a host farm to rent us 4 acres to set-up a market garden and short of knocking on farm doors we've tried all we can think of? We're not wedded to any particular part of the uk and have tried contacting:
Dozens of Dairy farms & Livestock farms
Farm shops with land but no veg grown on site
National trust
Forestry commission
Church of England
Land websites
We're always in competition with the 1000's of equine interests and we invariably get priced out - understandable in some respects but incredibly frustrating.
Our needs aren't particularly straightforward in that we need an electricity supply, water supply (we'd meter both and pay for that) and either the use of 55-60m2 of covered space or permission to build it ourselves (i'm a timber framer / tree surgeon / builder by trade).
We've offered to take a leave no trace approach and commit to returning the land and buildings to their current state but we're struggling to find anything. We have a £50k start-up loan business approved and ready to go but the window for us to accept is approaching. We'd be looking for a 6 year tenancy - 5 to cover the loan repayment period and an extra year to get moved on if we all decided that it was time to do so at that point.
Where else could we try?
Thanks for reading!
