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-# Smallholding+This topic is part of [[gt:gardening|Gardening, smallholding & farming]]. 
 +====== Smallholding ======
  
  
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-## What is smallholding?+===== What is smallholding? =====
  
 A smallholding is a residential site with more land than a garden, but less than a farm. The land is typically used for productive mixed crops including livestock raised on a non-commercial basis and woodland management for fuel. Often there will be growing both for the needs of the residents (subsistence farming) and for cash crops.  The lines between garden, smallholding and farm are blurred but basically a smallholding is just a very small mixed farm – small being relative to the size of farms in that particular society. [Crofts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croft_%28land%29) (Scotland) are smallholdings, although there is a legally-defined tenure for a croft, but not for a smallholding. Smallholdings can be comprised of families, individuals or [communities](/intc/intentional_communities), where people pool resources to hold land together. A smallholding is a residential site with more land than a garden, but less than a farm. The land is typically used for productive mixed crops including livestock raised on a non-commercial basis and woodland management for fuel. Often there will be growing both for the needs of the residents (subsistence farming) and for cash crops.  The lines between garden, smallholding and farm are blurred but basically a smallholding is just a very small mixed farm – small being relative to the size of farms in that particular society. [Crofts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croft_%28land%29) (Scotland) are smallholdings, although there is a legally-defined tenure for a croft, but not for a smallholding. Smallholdings can be comprised of families, individuals or [communities](/intc/intentional_communities), where people pool resources to hold land together.
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-## What are the benefits of smallholding?+===== What are the benefits of smallholding? =====
  
 **Productivity** **Productivity**
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-## What can I do?+===== What can I do? =====
  
 It's important that you get some experience, find out what works well and what doesn’t, and see if the lifestyle is for you. Many people use [WWOOFing](/wwoo/wwoofing) as an opportunity to talk to smallholders and farmers, or an apprenticeship to pick up skills. It's important that you get some experience, find out what works well and what doesn’t, and see if the lifestyle is for you. Many people use [WWOOFing](/wwoo/wwoofing) as an opportunity to talk to smallholders and farmers, or an apprenticeship to pick up skills.
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-## Further resources+===== Forum ===== 
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 +This topic belongs to the section [[gt:gardening|Gardening, smallholding & farming]]. You can ask questions or add information on the corresponding [Forum section](https://forum.growingthecommons.org/t/gardening). 
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 +===== Further resources =====
  
 - [Landmatch England](https://landmatchengland.org.uk/) - increasing access to land for new entrants, and encouraging regenerative and agroecological practices across England - [Landmatch England](https://landmatchengland.org.uk/) - increasing access to land for new entrants, and encouraging regenerative and agroecological practices across England
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-## Related topics+===== Related topics =====
  
 - [[hedg:Hedges]] - [[hedg:Hedges]]
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-## Specialist curators of this topic+===== Specialist curators of this topic =====
  
  
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