New Entrant netWork: Business models for Innovation
Nicolas and François from the “Collectif Fermier des Arbolèts” has been selected as the French Newbie award for 2021. Created in 2016 on a former pork/cereal farm, the collective now brings together 7 organic farmers belonging to legally independent farm: GAEC La Bergerie des Arbolèts (goat and sheep breeding, yoghurts and cheeses), GAEC Le Jardin […]
On May 7, 2021 the Slovenian NEWBIE Steering Group meeting was held at the Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. The meeting was dedicated to discussion on policy recommendations and future NEWBIE activities. We began with round discussion about existing, planed and needed policy recommendations for new entrants in agriculture in Slovenia. […]
The Newbie project is nearing the end of its duration and with it comes our final conference. More details will be made available in the near future, but we can already announce the official date: the 27th of October. Please mark this date in your calendar to join us during this conference.
Afonso Pereira and Marieke Devillé are the winners of the last edition of the Portuguese Newbie competition for new entrants, with their company Alma Organica. Having lived abroad for some years, they decided to move back to Portugal and settled in Odemira, Alentejo with a project focused on sustainability, agrotourism and valorisation of local resources. […]
The search for a farm as well as the search for a farm successor poses a similar problem to different people: How do I find a suitable person/farm? The initiative hofnachfolger-nrw.de from Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia tries to solve this problem. It is an association of rural youth, the Chamber of Agriculture of North Rhine-Westphalia and […]
This week the NEWBIE team for the UK held their penultimate Steering Group meeting (online). We began with a fascinating update from each steering group member on their recent work involving new entrants. Then there was a vibrant conversation about potential policy recommendations in terms of widening out the land matching service, mentoring schemes and […]
Very strong candidates competed in the 3rd NEWBIE competition for innovative new entrants in Bulgaria, organized by the Business Incubator-Gotse Delchev and the National Steering Group under the NEWBIE project. The winner is the GREEN TO GO farm. Stefan Tsonev and Vesi Mircheva from GREEN TO GO farm grow leafy vegetables, spinach and baby spinach […]
Hoeve Kazan, a beef cattle farm owned by John and Saskia Joha, is located on the borders of North and South Holland and Utrecht. They started with four cows and five sheep and now have a thriving business with a thriving farm shop. How did a shoemaker’s daughter and the youngest son of a dairy […]
On 23rd February 2021, around 40 interested Newbies joined an interactive web seminar on “Conversion to organic agriculture” using the conference tool Zoom. After the preceding “Digital Agricultural Office” on 2nd February 2021, BDL (German Rural Youth Association) collaborated once more with the BLE (Federal Office for Agriculture and Food, Germany) to host an informational […]
Kylie Magner from Magners Farm in Moyglass, Co Tipperary has been selected as the winner of the second Irish Newbie project, new entrant competition. Kylie is a free range poultry farmer who has recently added beef and sheep enterprises on the farm. Having returned to the farm after a period working abroad Kylie was eager […]
On 25 February 2021, the French Rural Network, the European Partnership for Innovation (PEI AGRI) and the RURALIZATION project presented the webinar “Innovating for the renewal of agricultural generations in France and Europe”. RENETA presented the NEWBIE project and led a workshop on multi-actor cooperation for the installation of new entrants. With 9 speakers and […]
The Portuguese Newbie business Amor é Cego started from João Rosado’s desire to maintain the traditional olive grove that has been cared by his grandfather for over 60 years. With no intent to increase production, a main concern was to secure income to cover the costs of maintaining the farm. Their business strategy focused on […]
Once a year the Slovenian team publishes the National NEWBIE newsletter with news about the activities carried out in the past year, events, results, educational information and other interesting news for new entrants and their supportive environment. The newsletter is disseminated within the NEWBIE network and in various media channels. Despite the pandemic situation, the […]
Last week the Belgian Newbie team filmed the last of their 10 Newbie videos. In a short while it will be made available on our YouTube channel. Topic of this last video is the small farm of new farmer Niels, De Veldhoeve. Niels started his farming career as a student worker on a pig farm […]
Hutton has concluded their second UK award process. Tomnah’a Market Garden, a community-focused enterprise located at Comrie Croft in Perthshire, has been declared the winner of the NEWBIE UK award for New Entrant Farm Business of the Year for 2020. Tomnah’a is run by Cristy Gilbert, Sam Parry and Judith McGowan and some dedicated volunteers […]
The jury considers it an enormous achievement how Jessica and Maurits, as new entrants into agriculture, have developed a fully-fledged agricultural company from scratch in a short period of time. Most of all how they did this: based on a very clear vision of what a sustainable livestock farm should look like, with two important […]
On 2nd February 2021, 275 interested participants logged in to listen to and participate in an interactive web seminar on the “Digital Agricultural Office”. Since 2019, BDL (German Rural Youth Association) has supported the BLE (Federal Office for Agriculture and Food, Germany) in hosting a series of informational web seminars. Previous topics covered a broad […]
The fifth Irish NEWBIE Steering Group meeting was held on Zoom in light of continued Covid 19 restrictions. The meeting included an update on progress in the project and to discuss planned activities for the coming year. The progression of the Irish contribution to NEWBIE toolkits was discussed in detail. This steering group is comprised […]
On December 17, nearly 200 participants attended a webinar on farms succession. The main objective was to share the latest studies and field experiences carried out by several organisations on this issue. It echoes a recent report by the Economic, Social and Environmental Council, which makes concrete recommendations to facilitate access to the profession for […]
“When Newbies become Visible, Functioning and Participating Farmers!” was a title of presentation delivered by Slovenian partner (Irma Potočnik Slavič, Sara Uhan from University of Ljubljana) at European Network for Rural Development (ENRD) virtual Workshop for National Rural Networks on Valorising and Communicating Successful Projects. The virtual meeting (November 24, 2020) was dedicated to identifying […]
Digital Agricultural Forum 2021 Today, the annual Agricultural Forum of the University of Applied Sciences Südwestfalen took place, this time in digital form. In addition to the latest news, e.g. the introduction of new degree courses at the Department of Agricultural Economics, Bernd Pölling presented new business models in agriculture. In doing so, he explained […]
One of the Newbie UK case studies featured the story of the Snowdonia Shepherdess, whose entry into farming was supported by a unique fellowship scheme that granted access to a landmark trust tenancy in the Welsh uplands. Since Newbie UK last checked in on Teleri Fielden’s progress she was nearing the end of this programme […]
This online discussion circle was about sharing information and inspiration on the topic of access to land. In the Netherlands the prices for buying land are very high (60.000 – 100.000 euros a hectare) so for most new entrants that is not an option. So several models of landowners and farmers working together were discussed. […]
Agricultural education is key “Young professionals in agriculture need prospects for the future! They demand modern education with content which is nationally uniform, up-to-date and practice-oriented. They also require appropriate remuneration,” says Mara Walz. With these words, the deputy chairwoman of the Federation of German Rural Youth (BDL) summarizes the BDL’s new policy paper on […]
A Bulgarian NEWBIE case of access to market – Vasil Ralchev with his successful business model During the inspiring NEWBIE consortium on-line meeting on the 3rd of November 2020 the Bulgarian NEWBIE team – Business Incubator-Gotse Delchev, Entrepreneurship Promotion Centre presented the successful business model of Vasil Ralchev, 22 –year old young farmer, to access […]
NEWBIE case studies feature in Irish Country Living, Women in Agriculture Awards 2020 Newbie case studies, Catherine O Grady Powers of Glen Keen Farm was the winner of the “Innovation on Farm Award” while Teresa Roche of Kylemore Farmhouse Cheese was a finalist in the “Innovation In Agriculture and Food” category, of the Irish Country […]
Discussion Circle in France from on 22nd October 2020: “From Farm transmission to farm setting: role, taks and impact of farm incubators” On October the 22nd french organizations from different regions of France gathered in Mayet de Montagne (Auvergne) to discuss about the following topic: “From Farm transmission to farm setting: role, taks and impact […]
Hofsuchtbauer.de is a website which takes over the mediation between farm owners and newbies without an own farm. This is the key element of the website: the farm exchange market. The site offers information on the topic “I hand over”. One can obtain free information about extra-familial farm succession, handover possibilities, phases of farm handover, […]
Why International Rural Womens’ Day? Because rural women make up a quarter of the worlds’ population, and their leadership in rural areas and agricultural landscapes is invaluable. Newbie proudly highlights three (of many) women entrepreneurs! Five years ago in Slovenia, Alenka’s farming dream took shape after she coupled a series of fortunate coincidences with hard […]
The Km0 Alentejo initiative’s consortium led by the University of Evora met on the 25th September to review annual progress in developing local value chains that can foster economic development and encourage new forms of sustainable farm businesses in the region. The initiative aims to bring together all actors of the food system through a […]
