Trees, neighbours and boundaries

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@Brian_Wheeler

We very much plan to use the land ourselves when we get there for a small holding so it will be in full agricultural us

I know the square root of sod all about running a small-holding in France but I do know that it has come up on the forum previously

I guess the advice is as good today as it was last year.

Here are two links. Start with the first, then study the second carefully.

http://www.rustica.fr/questions-jardinage/comment-vendre-legumes-son-potager,9993.html
http://www.terresdeurope.net/en/being-farmer-farming-france-agriculture-farmers.asp

Farming is a tightly regulated activity in France - farmers’ interests are very well protected, and that makes it a bit of a closed shop. If you make money from the land, you are potentially subject to the MSA which involves paying cotisations, and depending on the scale of your activity you may or may not get social cover in return. Running a smallholding in France is not going to be like running a smallholding in Lancashire but with more sunshine, there is far far more red tape involved.