So I'm thinking of starting a farm

[poiuytrewq0987]

I feel like going back over the ocean to my mother country and start a farm. However I don't have the slightest idea of starting with the first step of starting one. Maybe some of you here can steer me onto the right path?

[Loki]

First of all, you'll need money. Quite a bit of it. The rest is easy.

[Heretik]

Nauči "materinji" jezik prvo.

[poiuytrewq0987]

Nauči "materinji" jezik prvo.

I'll get plenty of time to pick it up once I settle down there. :coffee:

[Heretik]

A kako ćeš komunicirati do tad bez google prevoditelja?

[poiuytrewq0987]

A kako ćeš komunicirati do tad bez google prevoditelja?

Is it a surprise to you that I can read some? :coffee:

[Heretik]

Yes, it is a surprise that you can read.

[Eldritch]

If you start a chicken farm, plant the chicken so that their legs are sticking out of the ground. They're easier to harvest that way.

[Fortis in Arduis]

Get a wife and grow Serbs and then they can do it for you.

[Smaland]

Do you have any experience in or knowledge of farming principles and techniques? I think that farming is a more complex occupation than many suppose.

[Treffie]

Plant mandrakes :thumb001:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RSMWij0DPEI/TD3bjDi3JfI/AAAAAAAAAP0/ObxEY_2Ifac/s1600/mandrake2.jpg

[Bloodeagle]

If you want to make some money from your agricultural adventure, I recommend you get educated.
Get yourself a degree in horticulture and agronomy from UCDAVIS (http://gradstudies.ucdavis.edu/programs/program_detail.cfm?id=52), then you can make an educated guess about what will work for you in Serbia. Having this degree will also help convince financiers that your plans are sound.

[Wyn]

Do you have any experience in or knowledge of farming principles and techniques? I think that farming is a more complex occupation than many suppose.

I wanted to be a farmer when I was a little lad. Then I discovered that it involved working every weekend as well as week day and waking up at around five in the morning. Suffice it to say that life as a farmer started to lose its appeal rather quickly, and by the time I was nine it'd all but gone completely! :p

[Arne]

Do you have any experience in or knowledge of farming principles and techniques? I think that farming is a more complex occupation than many suppose.

German ??? no he isn´t.. :D

[Beorn]

I feel like going back over the ocean to my mother country and start a farm.

What kind of farm were you looking to set on your land?

I have a dream of consolidating my qualifications in this field, so perhaps I can come over and hustle your stock for my own farm someday?

[Heretik]

I wouldn't hold my breath though.

[Bloodeagle]

I hear poppies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_poppy) are profitable, these days, if you can convince the army to protect you and your fields. :D

[Turkophagos]

Balkan farming:

http://ohhburn.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/indoor-pot-farm.jpg

[Loddfafner]

Those ruined farmhouses destroyed in the petty Balkan squabbles make nice garden walls and sheep enclosures. The landmines will save you the trouble of deciding which livestock to butcher.


I wanted to be a farmer when I was a little lad. Then I discovered that it involved working every weekend as well as week day and waking up at around five in the morning. Suffice it to say that life as a farmer started to lose its appeal rather quickly, and by the time I was nine it'd all but gone completely! :p

That is why I am not farming.

[Grumpy Cat]

Well, Prince Edward Island announced a PNP for farmers (http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/story/2011/03/11/pei-pnp-return-584.html).

You have 150 K, you have a farm and a Canadian passport.

[Guapo]

cranberries, blueberries

[Peasant]

Smallholdings look cheap as chips in the Balkans compared to the UK. D:

[Albion]

Yeah, go for it. I already rent some land and have a small holding on it, its quite easy and land is cheaper in Eastern Europe.
However many Eastern European countries have restrictions on foreign nationals buying land (buying a house is usually fine) so you'd probably need to become a 'citizen by descent'.
Good things to keep would be chickens, ducks and to mainly grow a few crops.
In England there's money in selling things as organic (chemical and industrail farming-free) as well as letting land to people who keep horses (those buggers have pushed land prices through the roof).

The weather in the Balkans would probably be a bit more favourable to crops such as grapes and I believe they even grow rice in parts of Italy.

So are you just daydreaming about it at the moment or are you serious?

[Albion]

cranberries, blueberries

Strawberries would be easier in the Balkans or warmer parts of America, Cranberries tend to be more cool-climate I think, in southern Europe I think they're grown in more alpine areas.

[lei.talk]

I feel like going back over the ocean to my mother country
and start a farm.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Serbia_mountain_ranges.png/220px-Serbia_mountain_ranges.png (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Serbia)

the location/environment would be a major determinant.

"Ancestry: Lower Serbia"

are you returning to a particular region (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century_history_of_Kosovo#Balkan_Wars)?

will you be returning to a familial structure (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo_Liberation_Army)
that will assist you in these efforts?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/30/KSF-Coat-Arm.gif (http://www.theapricity.com/forum/showthread.php?p=165272#post165272)

[Radojica]

IT depends where do you want to go and make a farm and what do you want to grow.

Grains are the best to grow in Vojvodina (if Miskovic and Kostic who bought half of Vojvodina already allow you), while cattle in mountain region of Serbia, west, central and eastern Serbia. Small chicken farms you can grow wherever you want, but it's pain in the ass of the job. My family had one and it's full time job, I can tell you that.

What do you have in mind, you have to be precise.

[poiuytrewq0987]

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Serbia)

the location/environment would be a major determinant.

My grandfather ran a very large cattle farm way back near Kumanovo in a very mountainous part of that region so location is definitely not a detriment there will be always mountainous regions and flat regions with higher and lower frequencies of both type everywhere.


"Ancestry: Lower Serbia"

are you returning to a particular region (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century_history_of_Kosovo#Balkan_Wars)?No, not likely as that particular region is no longer part of Serbia today but it was once during the Kingdom period.


will you be returning to a familial structure (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo_Liberation_Army)
that will assist you in these efforts?


(http://www.theapricity.com/forum/showthread.php?p=165272#post165272)
Not likely. Maybe I'll pick up a cousin or two in helping me establishing one but that'll be the only part of assistance I will ask for.

[poiuytrewq0987]

IT depends where do you want to go and make a farm and what do you want to grow.

Grains are the best to grow in Vojvodina (if Miskovic and Kostic who bought half of Vojvodina already allow you), while cattle in mountain region of Serbia, west, central and eastern Serbia. Small chicken farms you can grow wherever you want, but it's pain in the ass of the job. My family had one and it's full time job, I can tell you that.

What do you have in mind, you have to be precise.

I haven't given it much thought but if I were to start one I think I'll go with something non-cattle since maintaining a cattle farm can be a rather smelly job. But I'll probably want to maintain a stable of horses on the side though.

[Heretik]

Yeah, 'cause horses smell like flowers.

[poiuytrewq0987]

Yeah, 'cause horses smell like flowers.


Me too!

[Heretik]

Pa kad si konj. :dunno:

[Bloodeagle]

I haven't given it much thought but if I were to start one I think I'll go with something non-cattle since maintaining a cattle farm can be a rather smelly job. But I'll probably want to maintain a stable of horses on the side though.

As the price of fuel goes higher and higher your horses will become more and more valuable.
Horses sound like a good investment to me, if you grow your own feed. ;)

[Guapo]

Buy a farm in Albania and do some organ trafficking from there, make more money.

[Curtis24]

I feel like going back over the ocean to my mother country and start a farm. However I don't have the slightest idea of starting with the first step of starting one. Maybe some of you here can steer me onto the right path?

It is an immense of work to keep up a farm...

[Fortis in Arduis]

Off the top of my head:

Hydroponics, organic, poly-tunnels.

The Demeter method of farming, biodynamic agricultre:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodynamic_agriculture

[Ushtari]

Buy a farm in Albania and do some organ trafficking from there, make more money.

Or go to kosovo and bribe (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGYqdvyRXy0) an albanian about organ trafficking, there is much more money in that, i promise.

[Guapo]

Or go to kosovo and bribe (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGYqdvyRXy0) an albanian about organ trafficking, there is much more money in that, i promise.

Kocobo is Serbia, always and 4ever.

[Turkophagos]

Kocobo is Serbia, always and 4ever.

And Northern Epirus is Greece.

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[Heretik]

Kocobo is Serbia, always and 4ever.

Nope, Kosovo is Sjrbia.

[Guapo]

Nope, Kosovo is Sjrbia.

Косово је Сjpбиа

[Heretik]

That's more like it. :thumbs

[Osweo]

There are plenty of books by novices with a bit of cash who managed to set up a farm. You should buy a few for ideas.

I always liked the idea of farming pigs, the way they do in Spain, free range in the hills, to make that special jamon... :yumyum: Just on a self-sufficient basis, with a rakija-still in one of the outbuildings. ;)

http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/3760/osvejorakija.jpg
That's the way to live, po-balkanski.... :)

[Guapo]

There are plenty of books by novices with a bit of cash who managed to set up a farm. You should buy a few for ideas.

I always liked the idea of farming pigs, the way they do in Spain, free range in the hills, to make that special jamon... :yumyum: Just on a self-sufficient basis, with a rakija-still in one of the outbuildings. ;)

http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/3760/osvejorakija.jpg
That's the way to live, po-balkanski.... :)

When were you in the Balkans or is that Spain?

[Osweo]

When were you in the Balkans or is that Spain?

I make my own Balkan, wherever I go. :cool:

[lei.talk]

I haven't given it much thought but if I were...

you may find these posts
from the (http://forums.skadi.net/showthread.php?p=606523#post606523) nordish portal (http://forums.skadi.net/showthread.php?p=604234#post604234) and alþingi (http://forums.skadi.net/showthread.php?p=913481#post913481) worth consideration.

[SwordoftheVistula]

Anywhere I can get a farm or any sort of land or property for 3k or so Euro?

[Debaser11]

I feel like going back over the ocean to my mother country and start a farm. However I don't have the slightest idea of starting with the first step of starting one. Maybe some of you here can steer me onto the right path?

Often times, the places with the most fertile soil lack adequate internet access.

[Albion]

Anywhere I can get a farm or any sort of land or property for 3k or so Euro?

You could perhaps get an acre or two of land for that in Moldova, Ukraine or Romania or perhaps even the Balkans but not a farm.

[Heretik]

You could perhaps get an acre or two of land for that in Moldova, Ukraine or Romania or perhaps even the Balkans but not a farm.

Impossible in Croatia... I think the same goes for Serbia.

[Albion]

Impossible in Croatia... I think the same goes for Serbia.

Then try Macedonia, Montenegro or Bosnia-Herzegovina?

[Heretik]

Montenegro is probably even more expensive than Croatia and I really don't know about Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia. :mmmm:

[Radojica]

Then try Macedonia, Montenegro or Bosnia-Herzegovina?


Lol, ground in Montenegro :rotfl:

I would like to see that in the sea of mountains and rocks :swl


Heeeeeeej Libre :chin:, you could make rock farm, you could export rocks :D

[Bloodeagle]

Anywhere I can get a farm or any sort of land or property for 3k or so Euro?
Why leave the country, when portions of Kentucky, Arkansas, Oklahoma, etc. have farmland available for 3k Euro an acre? :)

[Albion]

Lol, ground in Montenegro :rotfl:

I would like to see that in the sea of mountains and rocks :swl


Sheep, goats, mushrooms?


Heeeeeeej Libre :chin:, you could make rock farm, you could export rocks :D[/B]

Hey, in Cornwall they sell fresh air in a jar. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/green-living-blog/2010/mar/11/national-trust-fresh-air) :p

[Radojica]

Sheep, goats, mushrooms?

Well, that sure, but I had in mind ground for grains :)

By the way, Montenegrin cheese, ham and kajmak are one of the best I ate in my life :hungry:




Hey, in Cornwall they sell fresh air in a jar. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/green-living-blog/2010/mar/11/national-trust-fresh-air) :p


:lol: