The prospect of abandoning life in the city for a Good Life-style existence on a smallholding can be intensely alluring, as Ecologist columnist and author of Brave Old World, Tom Hodgkinson can ...

Kate Humble and her husband, Ludo, have launched an ambitious plan to preserve a Monmouthshire farm and use its old buildings as a centre to teach rural skills and animal husbandry. Here Kate reports ...

Believed to date back, in part, to the 1600s, Wilbrighton Manor Farm near Newport is up for grabs and it's cheaper than ever. The 6.25-acre residential smallholding boats a four-bedroom detached ...

My name is Alan Beat, and with my wife Rosie, I’ve run a 16-acre smallholding in Devon, England, for the last 28 years. “Smallholding” is a UK term that’s broadly equivalent to the term “homestead” in ...

Farming is far from an idyllic lifestyle. Keeping livestock is fraught with difficulties and if you're in the big league, the price of wheat and barley constantly fluctuates. Yet the lure of the ...

GREEN BELT land near Sowerby Bridge previously “well known by the council as a historical dumping ground” including fly-tipping and burnt-out vehicles could instead be a smallholding, if planners ...