‘Starting a Smallholding’ Articles
Smallholders websites: your own website for £65.00!
Do you need a website? If you offer any kind of service or product then a website is an effective tool to attract new customers. We're offering to build you a 5 page website, hosted, and register your domain on your behalf for a pre Christmas special price of only £65.00. All you have to do is tell us what primary colours you want reflected on [...]
Smallholdings: useful contacts
Contacts for smallholders. If you've got a smallholding, or about to start a smallholding, then at some point or other you may need to get in touch with one or more of organisations listed below: DEFRA (Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs To register your smallholding. Your first point of call is likely to be DEFRA as you [...]
The benefits of attending smallholding courses
You may be an existing smallholder, or someone that's thinking about starting a smallholding. There are lots of different elements to running a smallholding, and depending on what it is that you want to do with your smallholding, you need to get yourself educated in that particular field. Many of the smallholding courses available are run by [...]
Insuring your smallholding
Smallholdings insurance. Protecting your smallholding with smallholdings insurance is essential to protect you, your buildings, your equipment, your livestock, and more. As a smallholder you really can't afford to do without it. The current economic climate makes us all think hard about our expenditure and unfortunately some of us tend to [...]
Starting a smallholding – first steps
10 things to consider before starting a smallholding. Below you will find a few 'food for thought' questions for you before you embark on your smallholding journey. Think very carefully and realistically about a smallholding way of life. Plan well and do your research. 1. Why a smallholder's life? What are your main reasons for wanting [...]
Living on your land without planning permission
Turn your land into a Smallholding Frequently we are asked Why can't I live on my land? How can I live on farm land legally without planning permission? Why can't I get planning permission to build a home on my own land? Can I put a mobile home or caravan on land and live in it? Are there any loopholes in the law to buying land and living on [...]
The Darling Buds of Maybe!
How to satisfy yourself that a smallholding way of life is for you. If you've had a bit of a 'Tom & Barbara' moment and have decided that getting some chucks in, and growing yoiur own fruit and veg is the lifestyle you've been yearning for, then beware. Being self-sufficient, or working towards self-sufficiency isn't as easy as you may think. [...]
British eco hamlet in Croatia
Eco-Hamlet in Croatia With the recent explosion in the press and on TV extolling the virtues of anything to do with living a greener, more eco-friendly lifestyle, readers may be interested to hear about a new concept project currently under way in Croatia, Eastern Europe, an Eco-Hamlet. The brainchild of British couple Keith and Michele [...]
