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Dreams of The Good Life are fuelling a new breed of 'hobby farmers' reports Christine Webb
DO YOU fancy keeping a few pigs or chickens so you can enjoy home- grown food - without the fulltime demands of running a farm? Well, a growing band of well-heeled professionals who seek 'The Good Life' are snapping up an astonishing 60 per cent of farms and buoying prices for old farmhouses.See the full content of this document
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Families Leave the Cities to Plough New Furrows
Such folk, referred to as 'lifestyle buyers' or 'hobby farmers', can outbid traditional farmers, says Mark McAndrew, of Strutt Parker's farm department, which sold 20,000 English acres in the first quarter of this year. ...
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