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No one else has suggested that you buy the first field and rent it out to the farmer you really want to buy off yet. yes, very high risk strategy, you may end up on the wrong side of the feud, but boy will you earn kudos with the guy who owns the field behind you!!
Do it! Worry about such trivialities as affording it etc at a later date.
Lol............
My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)
We stayed with an English guy in the Cevennes in 2003 who had land with chestnut trees. He did B&B with arts and crafts courses during the summer months. He was designated as a peasant farmer because of the crop of chestnuts. He got various tax concessions for the crop that he could set against his income from the B&B.
"... I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity ..." - Tom Lehrer Earth Wind and Fire
I cannot resist asking if the English guy's name happens to be Wakeham. A nephew of mine is doing just the same (B/B and studio. I think it in the Cevennes but I lost his address.[/QUOTE]
Sorry Bren I got it wrong. He was Scottish, John Macdonald. Looked it up in my old copy of Special Places to Stay by Alistair Sawday. Domaine de Bagard, Lasalle, Gard. Only 46 euros and it was in 2002. First time I'd driven to the South of France. He was getting on a bit so probably retired cos I couldn't find it on Sawdays site. Unless your nephew took it over. At least I've got the memories...sigh!
If the two land owners don't get on , how will the other person know you have bought the field.
If you don't use the land straight away then know one will be wise to the fact you own it.
So.......grapestock is in a field in France next year then.
If you don't do it and lose the chance you'll be forever saying what if ......and kicking yourself.
God I'm jealous
S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber
So.......grapestock is in a field in France next year then
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LOL
Go on Nicos. I'll come and holiday sit the livestock for you ducks as all the other grapes hurl breadrolls cos I said it first
Anyway you say the other field (which you may never get offered) is a bit smaller, and you know what happens with land and livestock...you get hooked on something and ALWAYS want more.
Anyone who says nothing is impossible has never tried slamming a revolving door
Ha!...well- now the fun begins- French bureaucracy at it's finest!!!!!
Apparently to build any animal shelters the owner needs to be registered as an 'agriculturalist'. We now need to find out what that entails!!!!
As with most things French, it'll probably involve a process which must take place in French... and possibly some greased palms.
I think the main trick is to get on your knees and start praying that the people dealing with it all (presumably at the maison de ville) don't have a friend who's been eyeing up the field or it could all get very tricky.
Someone I met in Chamonix (I used to live there) had tried to buy some land to build on but were refused permission because it was a "flood plain" - strangely, about a month or so later it sold to a friend of someone in the town hall to build a house on. Turns out it wasn't a flood plain after all. Nobody was even a little bit surprised.
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