Everything starts somewhere

So we bought a farm…

At the end of October this year we started down a road that’s going to change our lives. for some time now, we’ve tried to work out how we could move up to our beloved Hayfield and live and work their permanently. It never seemed possible, and our working assumption has therefore been that it is our long-term retirement plan.

This is possibly all about to change.

The Farmhouse next to our house came up for sale and we were successful in buying it. It cam with an additional cottage, barn and 7 acres of land.

So now we have a place to live, two cottages and a farmhouse to rent to holidaymakers, and land to raise animals. In other words, we have the makings of a business.

Clearly this won’t happen over night. There is renovation work to do so we can put the farmhouse and cottage up for rent. We’ll also need to add a room in our house as a B&B to make the numbers work,

But it will work.

And then we need to turn our city-bread hands to farm work and learn a shedload of new skills - fencing, land management, and care of farm animals to name just a few.

We can’t wait.

This is going to be a tough, long, fun and crazy change for us. but so exciting. Which is why we’ll be documenting our adventures - as well as all the great things you can do when you’re visiting the Peak District right here.

Happy reading!