Banks preparing to rob depositors ?

[Steve]

(1 January 2016, 18:20)bigpaul Wrote: I have been trying to find some land/woodland to invest my meagre spare cash into-for 5 years now without any luck, its all so expensive.

I bought woodland in 2006 and the price went up right through the crash as people looked for something solid to put their money into. I'm not sure I would buy woodland now though, the price rise was mainly due to increasing energy costs at the time, this isn't happening now.

Good agricultural land still looks like a good investment to me, and the beauty of it is that you don't actually need very much if you are prepared to work it properly. If you can get even one acre ( probably £10k if it's half decent ) you can concentrate on working loads of organic material and bio-char into it - this will make you an extremely productive vegetable patch with plenty of room for chickens. If you can stretch to 3 acres you can think about other livestock too - perhaps a couple of small pigs like Kunekunes.

You won't make money from such a smallholding, but you will save a lot, and insulate yourself from the fragile supply chain, it's immensely satisfying too.