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Quaker Meeting Offers 2.5 acres for Horticultural Enterprise, Langport, Somerset

Quaker Meeting Offers 2.5 acres for Horticultural Enterprise, Langport, Somerset

  • Location: Long Sutton, Somerset
  • Land size: 2.5 acres
  • Type of Farming: Horticulture
  • Accommodation Offered: No
  • Type of Agreement Preferred: To be negotiated
  • Readiness: Immediate
The Quaker Meeting at Long Sutton, Somerset are looking to share their 2.5 acres with a horticulturalist. The land is on the outskirts of the village surrounded by houses and some thick vegetation, it has a lime rich, loamy, clayey soil with areas of impeded drainage over winter. The landowners are keen to protect this land from development and would like to see it being used in service to the community and contributing to food resilience locally. This could take on various forms but due to scale is expected to be of a horticultural nature. In the past the land has been grazed by cattle, sheep and a large bull but it has been under a grass keep license for the last five years.
There is a former stable, a ground floor room facing the field that could be used for storage, further indoor space would be by negotiation with the current site manager and tenant of the on-site residence. There is mains water, access and parking available although access from the road for larger vehicles can be difficult. All access is through the courtyard which is only very busy on Sunday’s when people come to a meeting. The owners are open to infrastructure being installed subject to consents and would welcome ponds where the land gets boggy in the winter.
This opportunity would suit a land seeker with a small scale horticultural enterprise in mind, looking to supply the local community in Somerset.

 

Region of England

South West

Types of farming

Horticulture & Market Gardening, Mixed, Poultry, Agroforestry / Food Production Forests

Size of farm

Under 1 hectare / 2.5 acres

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