The Practical Guide to Buying and Running a Smallholding in Wales
Distributed for University of Wales Press
These days, more and more citizens dream of escaping the rat race and moving to pastoral provinces—such as can be found in the Welsh countryside. This accessible and captivating volume offers practical, straightforward advice to those actively pursuing that dream, citing the author’s firsthand experience in buying and selling a smallholding in Wales. A pragmatic guide for the urban expatriate, or for anyone with an interest in the pitfalls and positives of packing it all up and downsizing for a life in the country, this book is a helpful compendium that includes a glossary of Welsh place names and their meanings, as well as an essential list of Welsh words and phrases.
Preface
About the author
Introduction
1. Are you ready to live the dream?
Deciding to leave the rat-race
2. A welcome in the hillside?
Why Wales is different
3. Making it work
Financing your dream
4. Choosing your smallholding
Avoiding the pitfalls
5. Getting ready to move
Preparing for your new lifestyle
6. Where there’s muck…?
Subsidies and agri-environment schemes
7. Legal requirements
Getting registered
8. Your first livestock
What and how to choose
9. Growing your own
Feeding your livestock
10. Selling your produce
Making money from small holding
11. Living with nature
Wildlife-friendly farming
12. A year on a smallholding
A taste of the author’s ‘good life’
Index
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