Stay in or set your video: if you want to escape the rat race then Channel 4 is the place you need to be this Thursday night.
There are loads of shows about bagging yourself a better life, but My Dream Farm looks like the ideal combination of an updated Victorian Farm and Kevin McCloud-esque aspiration, where the building doesn’t so much concern things to live in as ways to live.
From watching the clip on the Channel 4 site, the first episode concerns a couple in their forties who chucked in their high-flying, high profile lives to farm sheep on Dartmoor, with a few chickens, bees and woollen projects thrown in along the way.
It’s bound to be one of those programmes that brings you down to earth with a bump, exposing the harsh realities of life on a farm, but then that’s exactly what these programmes should do. They shouldn’t dress up the facts with an artificial saccharine coating.
The skinny
My Dream Farm, Channel 4 (UK)
Thursday 21 January 2010, 20h00
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I would be very grateful for information on what amount of acre age would be required regarding a smallholding to sustain a family of 3 persons fairly comfortable with hard work.
Also what would be the best live stock to keep i.e. chickens – pigs etc.
The amount of space you need really depends on whether you want to be totally self-sufficient. If you do, then an acre is pretty much a minimum for your vegetable and fruit growing, and then some more for your animals.
The easiest livestock to start with are chickens. They are cheap to buy, house and feed, and provide both eggs and meat. Pigs involve further investment in both space and buildings in which to keep them, so are perhaps less appropriate as your first farm animal.