Topic: What is classed as a small holding?

[cocopops]

We held a bbq on Saturday and a friend's friend said you have so many animals it is like a small holding.  Our garden is 2000m sq. 

Is it the amount of animals or the land?  I would only love to know as my 'best friend  :-X' at college lived in a teeny but lovely cottage, which she insisted was a small holding. It had 3500sq of land and a horse.

I love what we have, loads of animals, enjoying all of them and being able to walk out of our gate into the country side, pure rural heaven.

Cocopops

[Flighty]

This is what Wikipedia says

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallholding

[ceres]

The 'common' definition is based on size, bigger than an allotment, smaller than a farm, generally held to be up to 50 acres and rented out for agricultural purposes.

There is also a specific definition in law - it's a smallholding if it can be worked by a maximum of two persons full-time.

I don't know of any definition involving animals.  You can have a smallholding with no animals.

[Ishard]

Lucky you  ;D

My idea of heaven is a smallholding and to that end I have been looking for 1 to buy for the last year.  ;D

[Mr Smith]

Ishard,
              are you looking in the right places, a friend of mine had a place for sale at AB Kettleby last year with land at the rear suitable for a smallholding, :)

[saddad]

Well at least nobody has ben smutty about it...  ;D