Start Your Own Farm
What six years of losing money taught us, arranged so you lose less of it. Land, tenure, the numbers, the schemes, the diversification, and an honest chapter on why most of this does not work.
| Lessons | Eight |
|---|---|
| Length | About six hours |
| Level | Complete beginner |
| Includes | The field guide |
What the course covers.
What land actually costs
What land actually costs, and the three ways to get access to it without buying any
Tenure: freehold
Tenure: freehold, farm business tenancy, contract farming and grazing licence
The numbers nobody publishes — what a thousand acres actuall
The numbers nobody publishes — what a thousand acres actually returns
Agri-environment schemes
Agri-environment schemes, which are now roughly thirty per cent of average farm income
Diversification
Diversification, and why it is not optional
Machinery: what to own
Machinery: what to own, what to share, what to contract
The regulatory floor — FSA registration
The regulatory floor — FSA registration, licensing, planning
Why most of this fails
Why most of this fails, told properly
Who it is for.
What six years of losing money taught us, arranged so you lose less of it. Land, tenure, the numbers, the schemes, the diversification, and an honest chapter on why most of this does not work.
Filmed on this farm with the people who actually do the work, and including the honest chapter about what did not work and what it cost.
- Lessons: Eight
- Length: About six hours
- Level: Complete beginner
- Includes: The field guide
Video
Filmed here, not in a studio.
Lifetime access
Watch it whenever.
Free at Ploughing On
One course a year included.
The honest chapter
What went wrong, and what it cost.
The other courses
Ploughing On includes one a year.
At fifteen pounds a month, that pays for itself on almost any of these.
What people actually ask.
The two questions this page gets most, answered without a support ticket.
The reading and the video are remote. The field days are not, for the obvious reason.
Full refund within fourteen days of starting, no explanation required.
