Schooling.
Education, and being schooled. What six years of doing this expensively and in public actually taught us, arranged so somebody else can do it less expensively.
Six courses.
From a three-hour brewing course to a six-hour argument about whether you should start a farm at all.
Start Your Own Farm
What six years of losing money taught us, arranged so you lose less of it. Land, tenure, the numbers, the…
Reading a Field
How to look at a field and know something about it. Soil, drainage, aspect, weeds, and what the previous ten…
The Money Course
The part of farming nobody teaches. Gross margins, cashflow, forward selling, scheme income, and the arithmetic of adding value —…
Brewing at Home
From grain to glass, taught by people who threw away their first commercial batch because it was merely fine. Includes…
Keeping Bees
Normal farms sell honey. We sell Bee Juice. Either way, the bees do not care and this course is about…
Whole-Carcass Butchery
From the Hops & Chops side of the pub. Whole-carcass thinking, which means using the whole animal rather than the…
Fail Farm: the course nobody else will run.
Every agronomy course, every farming YouTube channel and every agricultural college teaches you what to do. Almost none of them teach what happens when it does not work, because the sponsors are uncomfortable and the lecturer has a reputation.
This farm has an unusual advantage: its entire public identity is built on honest failure. The first commercial batch of lager was thrown away. A batch of cider was recalled with a statement beginning "we completely cocked up". The farming has lost money in most years it has been documented.
So the failure archive is free, it is detailed, and it is the most useful thing on this website. Knowing what went wrong here will save somebody else more money than knowing what went right.
- Free
- the failure archive
- £144
- year one
- 1 batch
- thrown away
Free, and worth more than most paid courses.
The field guide
What a thousand acres costs, what it grows, and why the farming part loses money every year.
The glossary
Every farming term the programme uses, explained without condescension.
The failure archive
Everything that went wrong here, and what it cost.
Ask Kaleb
Submit a question. The good ones get answered properly.
Into the industry.
The accelerator
For people entering farming without a farm behind them, which is almost everybody now.
Apprenticeships
The route most people actually take, and the one with the fewest published resources.
For schools
Free classroom material, developed with the Ernest Cook Trust in mind.
Take the field guide first.
Thirty pages, free, and genuinely quite funny in places. What a thousand acres actually costs, what it grows, and why the farming loses money every single year.
- Thirty pages, free, no catch
- The real numbers, published
- And the fortnightly newsletter, if you want it
What people actually ask.
The two questions this page gets most, answered without a support ticket.
No. Every course starts from the assumption that you have never held a soil auger, because most people have not.
It is not. It is what six years of expensive mistakes taught us, written down so you can make cheaper ones.
