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Farm diversification: How to Set Up a Successful Farm Shop

5 April, 2023 - 11:30 am to 1:30 pm

Free
Farm shops represent one of the most obvious choices when it comes diversifying your farm business to secure profitability and resilience.

Edward Berry is a consultant with the Flying Fork: he delivers advice to farm shop owners and managers, from early project consideration to ongoing advice, trouble-shooting and further development such as food service.

In this workshop Edward offers an introduction to farm shops and will cover

  • Defining farm shops and their key features
  • Reasons to consider diversifying into the farm shop sector
  • Processes ahead of opening
  • Responsibilities
  • Challenges and risks
  • Rewards
  • Business measures and modelling
  • Further diversification.

Workshop details:

This is an online session, delivered via Zoom.

Eligibility:

This workshop is available to any farmer or land manager in Devon, Somerset, Dorset, Cornwall, or the Isles of Scilly currently in receipt of BPS payments.

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