Your Opportunity to Live for $1.50 a Year on Picturesque Farm By the Sea
One British pound. That's about a buck-fifty in dollars. And that's what it'll cost you to leave the rat race behind.
How does prime farmland in Wales overlooking the Irish Sea sound?
Spanning 140 acres on the Welsh coastline is a place called Parc Farm. The sprawling limestone headlands are in Northern Wales near Llandudno, Conwy county. The offer comes from a British charity that's looking for a caretaker.
Sounds too good to be true, right? There must be a catch.
“For one pound a year, they're going to get a 4-bedroom bungalow overlooking the Irish Sea with the most wonderful views that you can get anywhere, every time they open their doors,” says William Greenwood, general manager of the National Trust. “And they're going to get, um, 416 sheep.”
Ah, there it is. You can leave the rat race, but to do it you've got to enter the sheep race.
“416 sheep come with the farm, yes they do,” says Greenwood, “and the catch is really that instead of asking [the caretaker] to put the sheep inside the farm walls on the bright green fields and nice sweet grass, [they need to] put the sheep outside on the headland where there's a lot of gore, bracken, and a lot of heather. That's where the conservation value is, outside the walls of the farm.”
Spanning 140 acres on the Welsh coastline is a place called Parc Farm. The sprawling limestone headlands are in Northern Wales near Llandudno, Conwy county. The offer comes from a British charity that's looking for a caretaker.
Sounds too good to be true, right? There must be a catch.
“For one pound a year, they're going to get a 4-bedroom bungalow overlooking the Irish Sea with the most wonderful views that you can get anywhere, every time they open their doors,” says William Greenwood, general manager of the National Trust. “And they're going to get, um, 416 sheep.”
Ah, there it is. You can leave the rat race, but to do it you've got to enter the sheep race.
“416 sheep come with the farm, yes they do,” says Greenwood, “and the catch is really that instead of asking [the caretaker] to put the sheep inside the farm walls on the bright green fields and nice sweet grass, [they need to] put the sheep outside on the headland where there's a lot of gore, bracken, and a lot of heather. That's where the conservation value is, outside the walls of the farm.”