In reply to A newbie all over again! by Annec
In reply to A newbie all over again! by Annec
Steve is spot on, from experience. It is important to have a contract to cover you and your rights to your land when you lease it out.
In reply to A newbie all over again! by Annec
Just be sure to retain enough land immediately around your home to allow you some privacy when you are there.
Renting the land out, for whatever form of payment, sounds like a really good idea - better than leaving it fallow, and it means that you are contributing in a small way to your local community as well.
In reply to A newbie all over again! by Annec
Good point, I forgot to mention that. We stipulated that no agricultural work could be done closer within 80 metres of the house, this gave us room for a kitchen garden and to get the cars in and out.
In reply to A newbie all over again! by Annec
[QUOTE=lotaresco]...so we used an agricultural contractor to do the work for us...[/QUOTE]
How did you find one? Does agricultural contractor imply farming only (by which I suppose I mean growing crops) or might it extend also to tending chestnut trees?
We acquired some chestnut forested land with our house which has been totally neglected for the 4 years that we've had the property. At some point when we have a bit more time it might be interesting to try and tend these trees but in the meantime is there any danger in leaving things to get totally overgrown? I thought I remembered in one of the Annie Hawes books that her neighbours told her that she needed to "pulire" the land to reduce the risk of forest fires.
In reply to A newbie all over again! by Annec
We asked around. The local bloke Primo is a wizard at all things agricultural but he does other work as well, he laid the water main to the house and he will be installing a new septic tank for us in autumn. He has a couple of assistants so they also do tree pruning, such as our olives.
Try chatting to a couple of neighbours, they always know someone.
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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 08/10/2005 - 08:44In reply to A newbie all over again! by Annec
We have just come back having done a deal with a local farmer to rent our land and we are returning to Italy next month to sign the agreement at the union.As the land had not been used for about 2 years it has to be "cleaned" so we agreed no rent for one year, half rent for next 2 years and then full rent and he is going to plant and look after some olive trees for us to improve the view.
The amount of rent depends partly on whether the farmer has any "quota" from the EU but finding this out is not so simple.
So my advice is decide how much land you want to keep,maybe find an agronomo to advise you,definitely find a nice local farmer and get a contract organised through a union and get it sorted asap before land gets too bad and neighbours get upset.
Local offices of the unions will help.There are a number of them including CIA and COPAGRI
When we bought our farm we struck an arrangement with a local farmer (nowadays a good friend) to farm the land in return for rent paid in olive oil. We had a lawyer create a standard contract to ensure that we retained our rights over our own land.
A few years ago our friend became too old to farm the land so we used an agricultural contractor to do the work for us, and recently we made the investment in a tractor and courses at agrcultural college, and do the work ourselves. When we are in the UK I use the same ag. contractor to do the jobs for me.