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I have been reading the forum recently and it is quite clear that we have a diversity of people and cultures. The idea of the field to farm system was to allow people with limited budgets to aspire to becoming farmers / smallholders in a society where purchasing a smallholding or a small farm is beyond most peoples budgets. If I could offer any guarantees that the field to farm system would work in every case then that would be giving people false hope. Some of the suggestions on how people should get on the agricultural ladder such as buying properties and land with an agricultural tie is ludicrous as there are insufficient dwellings unless you wish to move to the highlands or islands of Scotland.
To break it down very simply this is what you can hope to achieve given your budget (these are general examples):
1. If you have no budget then the best thing you can probably do is to keep a few animals in your back garden
2. Realistically you would need approximately £130,000 to follow the field to farm route
3. If you had £300,000+ you could probably start to look at houses with an agricultural tie that have a limited amount of land
4. To buy a reasonable smallholdings you'd be looking at £500,000+
Now we could sit here all day and argue the examples above based upon locations, quality of ground etc. The point is that there is a ladder or scale that can be applied. For some the field to farm route will be out of the realms of possiblity. What we have hoped to achieve by creating the systems outlined in the book is lowering the barrier of entry. Many more people have £130,000 equity than have £300,000. With this comes a degree of risk although I would caveat that by saying that you would be investing in land and buildings that (in my experience) have always been worth substantially more than the investment. They have only ever gone up.
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Culture clashes and ways to become a Smallholder
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Guest_Dave_*
, 06 Mar 2011 11:36
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Posted 27 April 2014 - 10:13
Tom Bombadil
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Hi. I disagree on some bits.
In my book (not the little red one) one can simply buy a bit-o-land with the cash one has at the time. Before purchase one seeks out a place to rent if their original plan has not been met acreage-wise. From them on, one can work at building up their dream. A five year plan is do-able IF one has another income or savings and is prepared to go for broke. But you wont go broke if you work for it.
Of course things do go wrong, but WE are not here for an easy ride right? We know that we are treading on thin ice and dealing with the sometimes ignorant in the official world of the...er...officious world.
It can be done for far less from the off (£130.000) is two times as much as I was paying or would need from the off ( to provide growth on the lands) only last Jan. I had 7.7 acres, renting rights all set up for another 7. A good job. A means to build first (with the funds from the job, and not yet, the 'worked' land) before I am 'living' on site.
It can be done.
£130.000 is a lot from the off. I would avoid paying for that (if indeed one could) and build from a cheaper base.
peace to you. Its just an optimistic aproach and not a dig at you 
