Guides
Eight guides written over ten years. The planning conversation already draws on them, and here they are if you want the long form.
Articles: short reads from the guides, one topic at a time.
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OWNING A FARM
For the aspiring farmer. The pathways to ownership most people never realise exist.
AGEING ON THE FARM
For the older farmer staying in. Workload, scale-back, and keeping the farm going.
FAMILY SUCCESSION
For the family handing on. The conversations, structures, and surprises of succession.
THE CULTIVATE TRUST
The Cultivate Trust guide. How a farm goes into the Trust and stays whole, farmed and in local hands.
COMMUNITY CHAMPIONING
For the community champion. Models for farms held by the people who depend on them.
DREAMING OF FARMS
The case for farms, and the lives lived on them. For the dreamer and the believer.
BEFORE YOU SIGN
For the meeting with your solicitor, accountant and financial adviser. Seven ways onto a farm, or off one, and what to ask.
GIVING YOUR LAND
For anyone with land who wants it to benefit their community. How to give it one step at a time, starting with a sharefarm.
For towns
A companion to the eight, for mayors, councils, community leaders and businesses that want their district to stay farmed.
FOR MAYORS AND COUNCILS
For mayors, councils, community leaders and businesses that want to do good. How a district stays farmed: the mayor starts it, and locals carry it.
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