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Successful garden sharing

It’s good to see examples of garden sharing or landsharing in action and Totnes in Devon has been encouraging this for a year or more and has 21 garden shares currently in place.  There is lots of useful information for anyone considering setting up a landshare, either as a landowner or as a gardener.  yours2share [...]

Delicious properties in Mexico and Spain

There have been a couple of particularly mouth watering properties posted on yours2share in the last couple of weeks, so I thought I’d share them with you.  In my entirely subjective opinion, and based only on the pictures, and for no addition payment or commission whatsoever, I wish I had a few thousand spare.  Unfortunately [...]

Marriage bureau for assets

After explaining what yours2share is all about to someone today, they exclaimed, “a marriage bureau for assets”, and I thought this was rather delicious.  I’ve spent ridiculous amounts of time on the so-called elevator pitch and this seemed to reduce it to just four words.  OK, I then have to add a fair bit of [...]

10 top tips for land share

If you are thinking about allowing someone who will grow vegetables in your garden, here are ten top tips to ensure a successful sharing arrangement.

Make sure there is a water source, if there isn’t one, you will need to provide one.
Work out where the composter will be located and what is to be done with [...]

Home for honey bees

I was delighted to see this recent yours2share ad.  The member is looking for someone with some spare land in HIgh Wycombe for his honey bees and their hives.

As the idea of land sharing takes hold of people’s imaginations, fruit and vegetables are not the only thing for which people are looking for a small [...]