An endless supply. An A-Z choice. What you want, when you want it. Not my responsibility. This is the allure of industrialisation. But it only works by scale. To make it work, you need enough subscriptions to make it possible and worth your while. For the subscribers: instant gratification and ease. But at what cost? […]
Smallholding Discussion Blog
Ask any question about smallholdings, being a smallholder, running a smallholding business – or just rural life in general! Our team reads every note and endeavours to respond to each one.
The true leverage of labour
Convenience. The single most devastating lever (weapon) of economic dominance. “Hey! Why don’t you let us do that instead? Imagine all the hassle and time that would save you? Wouldn’t that be a much better quality of life? Sign up here….” It’s like we’ve been sold a lie: that the less we work, the more […]
The essential rural business rule
In 2020, the National Lockdown restrictions permitted only businesses categorised as ‘essential’ to trade. These were the unavoidable functions that were considered essential to living in today’s world. […]
Make your house an asset – buy a smallholding
Why is it we’re taught to classify our home as an asset? Yet with every other commonly held investment class: savings accounts stocks and shares bonds pensions insurance policies businesses …there is one very distinct difference… They are cash generating. And in the case of most of us – are homes are not. Sure they […]
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The UK’s smallholdings need you
Owning a small holding of land has never been cheaper and more readily available in the UK as it is today. Sadly… degredation of families/marriages lack of succession loss of financial soverignty …have let these rural rarities slip into dereliction and abandonment. It’s like we have an economic and moral responsibility to rear up these […]
Smallholdings For Sale Under £300K
A list of UK smallholdings and rural properties under £300K. Rare real estate bargains with land and some with outbuildings too. […]
