My wife and I have a holiday home in

Do it on an annual contract which is renewable. Then you can have no problems in the future

We have a house with 10 acres of land which is under 'contract' with a local farmer, which we chose to do for 10 years, but it has a 1 year notice period on it.  This is to ensure that if there is any crop on the land when we give notice, the farmer has time to collect it.  We used a local 'farmers union' office to draft the contract , which was then officially registered.  You have to pay a fee for this, but the farmer paid it, not us.If you want a copy of the contract, send me a personal message with your email address and will send it to you - it is in Italian of course.

Wow, that sounds perfect. I can’t see how to do PMs on this forum but my email is bertrevert (at) hotmail.com . No problem with it being in Italian. Thanks very much!