AAAAAAAAAAAaaaagh!

Sorry, had to get that off my chest.

I should have bought shares in Tate and Lyle.

Me and the Mrs were talking about packing up and moving somewhere with some land. That little place with 2 acres in France for £30k is looking more and more appealing. (it needs another £50k spending on it just to be liveable).

Having piqued our interest, what do you reckon the minimum amount of land is to supplement an income? Not just bees, but chickens, ducks, fruit, crops even. Farmers market kind of scale. The aforementioned place has to be used for crops or livestock. I've no idea if bees even count as livestock in France and 2 acres isn't enough for the hundreds of hives I reckon you need to make a living from it.

So if you were serious about packing up, going somewhere where it's affordable, how much land do you reckon you'd need to "make a living" (I budgeted trying to make a living from beekeeping on a personal income of £30,000, ignoring Jimmy Carr tax dodges)?