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Newbie videos and stories

Here you can find videos and stories of new entrants made by the Newbie project. All video’s give information on the specific farm, the motivation of the new entrants to start a new farm, how they realized it, what kind of hurdles they experienced, what kind of support they got and finally some tips based on their experiences.

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Tombreck Farm: Cooperative Farming

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Tombreck+Farm+Shop/@56.5112311,-4.1953262,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x4888bff2f18892c3:0xa8c77bd66308afaf!8m2!3d56.5112282!4d-4.1931375
Tombreck cooperative farm
suemanning@tombreck.co.uk
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Balbirnie Home Farms – Integrating livestock and crops

Johnnie Balfour of Balbirnie Home Farms (Fife, Scotland) tells us about his approach to integrating livestock and crops, as a way of improving the biodiversity and environmental quality on his farm.
management@balbirnie.com
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Taybank Growers Cooperative, Perthshire, Scotland – “Farming Together”

Land accessibility can be a daunting challenge for new farmers. The Taybank Growers Cooperative overcomes this through community-living, sharing resources, and learning together.
hello@taybankgrowerscoop.com
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Maïsterplan “giant corn maze”

Maïsterplan is an arable farm producing animal feed combined with farm tourism activities, mainly a yearly giant corn maze.
info@maisterplan.be
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Matthew Adams (Joint venture farming, Northern Ireland)

joint dairy farming venture for a new entrant and more established farmer in Northern Ireland
matthewadams331@gmail.com
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Vertical farming by Urban Harvest

Urban Harvest is an innovative vertical farming enterprise based in Brussels. They develop vertical farming solutions that are sold to the next generation farmers and produce a selection of leafy greens that are sold to retailers on a national scale.
mail@urbanharvest.eu
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Geitenboerderij Hansketien

Geitenboerderij Hansketien is an biodynamic goat farm run by Martijn, Monique and Liesbeth who produce wonderful cheese and goats meat.
info@hansketien.nl
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Boer Bart

Boer Bart is the organic dairy farm of Bartele Holtrop with Jersey cows, chickens, restaurant and play areas for children.
Bart@BoerBart.nl
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Agrocare

Agro Care is an international greenhouse horticulture company founded in 1997 by Philip van Antwerpen and Kees van Veen.
info@agrocare.nl
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Organic family fruit and jam company Misto Ltd

Organic orchard and vegetable farm with diversification with jams and syrops, dry fruit and vegetables
denka62@abv.bg
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Organic honey agricultural producer Ibraim Pachedzhiev

Organic honey farm of Ibraim Pachedzhiev
small bee existing farm successor enlarged and modernized
ibo_76@abv.bg
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Organic agricultural high school farm Gotse Delchev

diversified school organic farm for vegetables, fruit, alfalfa, livestock
pg_po_mss@abv.bg
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Sheep and cow milk farm – Kukundjiev Company 66

Mountain Karakachan sheep dairy farm
New small dairy farm in a protected area up in the Rhodope Mountain with highly valued products by visitors and local restaurants and hotels in the area.
mitko.kukundjiev@abv.bg
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Family farm for crops seed production – Sortovi semena EAD Razgrad

Seed prodiction farm Sortovi semena Razgrad
Wide variety of quality Cereal seeds production and vegetable seedlings
elect_seeds@abv.bg
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Farm “Muus”

Georg Muus took over the family farm near the German Baltic Sea and introduced biomass heating and firewood trading.
post@TEM-GbR.de
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Wildhäuser Farm

The young farmer Anna Sophie Meyer-Fehring is developing an organic farm towards laying hens and direct sale.
anna-2000@web.de
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Pirin Fish Farm

Pirin Fish Farm
Spring water trout farm at the foot of Pirin Mountain and a casy restaurant to taste it
zazo_bg@yahoo.com
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CSA farm ‘De Plukheyde’

De Plukheyde is a CSA farm in Kampenhout that allows consumers to compose their own vegetable box
koen@deplukheyde.be
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‘t Leenhof

Leenhof is a medium sized family farm is Zele where parents De Maesschalck recently got joined by their two sons and daughter.
info@leenhof.be
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De Stoerderij

De Stoerderij is a buffalo farm which Arjan Swinkels started from scratch at his family’s derelict dairy farm
info@destoerderij.nl
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Geertje’ s Hoeve

Geertje’s Hoeve makes farm life an unmissable experience for young and old. Our farm with goats, pigs, our own cheese makery, farm shop and restaurant make visiting the farm certainly worthwhile
anne@geertjeshoeve.nl
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