Wow, guys, this is fantastic! I’ve had loads of interest in the community land trust idea with lots of people coming back to me with feedback, questions, offers of help, etc. What this tells me of course, is that this could really be a viable option for purchasing a farm and making the land available for allotments, keeping animals and not only for the GWM eco-project but other community projects as well. I’m so excited!

After chatting with Charlotte at Fordhall Farm last week, thinking some more about it and emailing a couple of people, I’ve decided to go for the community land trust idea and get feedback from the community - the people in Cheshire themselves. And what better place to start than the Landshare website I mentioned back in my blog a while ago. So far, I’ve only had one person contact me about land in Cheshire and from what I can see of the website, it appears there are far more would be growers out there than there are landowners coming forward. So, I need to start contacting the people who’ve got listings on the website to see what they think of my idea.

Aaargh, I want to scream!!!! I feel like I’m getting absolutely nowhere. These people don’t reply to emails and don’t return phone calls either. The only way to get hold of anyone at the college (excluding Annette), is to keep phoning persistently until you get through to the person you want to talk to, which can take days!!! Letter to the farmers written, I was keen to get it sent out asap, but that’s not going to happen in a hurry. When I eventually got hold of the business advisor that I had the meeting with back on the 14th May, he told me that he hasn’t had time to even look at the docs I gave him and I need to get hold of the other lady as he is busy working on other things. What was the point of going to see him then??? God, this is so annoying!! Talk about going round in circles and being shoved from one person to the next - unbelievable!