Ffynnon Farmstart – Our new project in Abercych will support new-entrant food producers. We will be providing the space, infrastructure, and support they need to effectively produce food and establish thriving businesses.
We’ll provide practical training, mentoring, and experience in food production skills. We’ll be helping Farmstarters grow their idea through business mentoring and helping to build links to local markets.
We want to help build a local food system that works for consumers and local producers new and old, using growing methods which respect local ecology. We want to find ways to make healthy, low impact, affordable, local choices everyday, staples on our tables, and build links between eaters, producers, and the land that feeds us all.
We want everyone to be involved in the revolution! From chefs to shops, educators to ecologists, farmers, and families, we’ve all got a stake. Northeast Pembrokeshire is already a fabulous place to be with a vibrant local food scene. Help us contribute to the wave of transformation and be the ripples that create our independent sustainable food system which works for all.
We are especially interested in supporting business ideas focused on horticulture, soft fruit, perennial herbs, geese, beekeeping, pig farming, edible and medicinal mushrooms, rootstock production, poultry breeding, and arable crops. We offer:
- Support with business planning and finance forecasting
- Access to land within the 70+ acres we sustainably manage
- Membership of a tool library and machinery ring
- Support with routes to market for your produce
- Expert guidance within your agri-business sector
- Practical advice on managing your business
- Support integrating with other local enterprises
We are Wales’ first farmstart – Places are currently full and applications closed, Enquires still welcome, Reach out below!