Ed of course rents the land separately to the farmhouse. I have been going on and on about Emma moving out being the death of Joe should they ever get a poky little affordable house with no garden.
It will never be as nice for the children as the ability to run free over Grange Farm (speaking from experience as I had 13 years on a farm and then moved to somewhere with no land).
Far too much has been made of Emmur and her housing wishes. Ed hardly supports her on it as he knows it is unreasonable. Eddie and Clarrie would prefer somewhere else when Joe does pop off. All wrong.