28 May 2024
With no experience of cultivating vines, Farming Connect mentoring from an established producer has been key in helping Geoffrey and Cath Easton make the successful transition from livestock farming to growing grapes and producing...
05 October 2023
With Farming Connect-funded trials ranging from growing grass with rock dust to establishing farm-scale tea bushes on hill land already underway in Wales, farmers are being invited to apply for the next round of funding from...
03 August 2023
Coppicing smaller diameter younger trees to produce a woodchip mulch rich in minerals and enzymes is providing a sustainable source of fertility and organic matter for young fruit trees at a Welsh nursery.
Tom Adams grows...
17 March 2023
Food processing and butchery, sheep dog handling, viticulture and regenerative farming – in the current Farming Connect programme - approved mentors offer fully funded one-to-one support on an increasingly wide range of topics.
“Receiving confidential one-to-one...
9 December 2022
“However confident you are in your own ability, there are sometimes better or different ways of doing things.”
These are the words of William Williams, who keeps around 500 easy-care ewes at the 200-acre farm near...
Something a little bit different within this episode as we're guided by leader of the Agri Academy, Llyr Derwydd and members of the Business and Innovation programme as they visit Bilboa and the Basque region. It's a whistle-stop tour of...
This dashboard outlines business key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between April 2021 – July 2021.
