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 […]

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 […]

Announcement of Newbie UK Award process. Newbie UK is announcing the process for the Newbie Award 2020. The award will recognize the work and innovation of new entrants to farming that have set up their business within the last 2 – 10 years. The winner will receive € 500 towards training to improve the business […]

Time to turn land challenges into opportunities The words challenging and unprecedented have been used a great deal understandably over the past few weeks but what we have seen is a renewed spirit and innovative ways to deal with some of these challenges in the UK. Alongside this, this has also been a sharpening of […]

Newbie UK presented at the Farm Advisory Service’s annual event: The New Entrant Gathering. The event brings a series of inspirational speakers with unique business models and resilient strategies. Some stories worth learning about is the Wee Farm Distillery in South Lanarkshire, the Laggan Outdoor Centre and agritourism exemplar in Dumfries and Galloway and the […]

The James Hutton Institute, as part of the EU-funded NEWBIE project (New Entrant netWork: Business models for Innovation, entrepreneurship and resilience in European agriculture), is again calling for applications for the 2019 NEWBIE Award, which highlights the work of pioneering new entrant farmers across the UK. The NEWBIE project offers an award to new entrants […]

NEWBIE Discusses Farm Incubators at Agriscot, one of Scotland largest farm industry events. November 20th. At the Agriscot farm industry event in Edinburgh, Newbie UK led an open seminar on farm business Incubators. After visiting Northern France with Newbie partner RENETA, a panel of delegates asked a room of participants “Could Farm Business Incubators provide […]

Together with a delegation from the Netherlands, three participants from Germany were part of the Newbie exchange to the UK from the 23rd till the 25th of October. They visited newbies in North Wales and Manchester to get to know a different perspective on handing over a farm and fresh ideas for starters. The exchange […]

The month of June saw two high profile Newbie events in the UK: The Start to Farm Conference and The Royal Highland Show. Early June, Newbie UK put on the ‘Start to Farm’ Conference, an intensive one-day networking and training event in Newport Wales. The event was put on with the help of local farming […]

New ‘Start to Farm’ conference will bring aspiring farming entrepreneurs from across the UK together for motivation, inspiration and empowerment 30 April 2019 An exciting new one-day event around innovation, inspiration and practical advice for entrepreneurs looking to start their own farming business will be taking place on 4th June 2019.  ‘Start to Farm UK’ […]