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ITV's Heart of the
Country
In September 2004
NewLandOwner
was featured on "Heart of the Country",
a weekly, half hour programme, on
channel 3 in the midlands. Dave and Rob
were shown on the NewLandOwner
organic farm, with
clients at Kidderminster and at The
Royal Show, where they helped a client
decide which breeds of animals she would
like to keep.
Smallholder Magazine
We write two monthly features for
Smallholder Magazine, "Ask the Experts",
answering reader's questions and an
organic farmer's diary. A record of the
activities on the NewLandOwner's Organic
farm at Aston House.
Farmers Guardian
The first of our
"Getting
Started"
weekend courses was featured on two
pages of The Farmers Guardian dated
August 13th 2004.
These events target new owners and those seriously thinking of purchasing land and are designed to provide hands-on experience of some of the farming activities which the delegates might have to undertake. There is very little opportunity for such experience elsewhere.
Co-operation as part of a "Consortium"
of local individuals, all closely
connected with agriculture, has provided
the momentum and manpower to make the
"Weekend" events possible and very
interesting, providing an opportunity to
learn from practical, down-to-earth
instructors.
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Sunday Observer
Magazine 7th Sept '08
Louise French's feature entitled "Meet
the greenshifters"
Louise was directed to
NewLandOwner, by the editor of
Smallholder Magazine and we were
able to provide her with a long list
of clients who might be suitable for
her article and who had agreed to be
interviewed. "Until I was
introduced to you......", she said,
"I was struggling to find anyone who
had downshifted to the country"
She
selected two of our clients, who
co-incidentally are already listed on
the 'Case Studies' page of this
website.
"A dream come true in Lincs",
the Blevins family."
"36 acre farm milking goats",
Jo and Tony Knight."
Both of these clients first came
on a weekend "Getting Started"
course and then, when they
eventually found a smallholding,
used NewLandOwner's On-site
consultation service, to guide them
through the initial start-up
procedures and to provide Management
Plans for their businesses.
This is what Louise had to say
about some of the services, which
NewLandOwner provide for potential
'greenshifters':
"Robert Jeffery and David Morris used to
be dairy farmers until they realised
they had something more marketable than
milk - their experience. They set up
NewLandOwner (www.newlandowner.co.uk),
a Derbyshire-based company which runs
courses on how to start a smallholding.
Jeffery advises on everything from how
to handle goats to how to get planning
permission, to all kinds of people, from
wannabe Alpaca farmers to millionaires
who fancy having a go at growing their
own vegetables. 'Most don't especially
need to make a profit,' he says. 'They
just want the business to wash its face.
It's as easy to make a living on a
20-acre farm as it is on a 200-acre
farm. But for the first two years it is
all about investment and no income.'
The courses have proved so popular,
Jeffery now calls himself a 'twilight
farmer' in that the only chance he has
to work on his own farm is at the end of
the day. 'I think people are motivated
by the falseness of life in the city,'
he says. 'They want to get back to
basics."
To read the whole feature on the
Sunday Observer Magazine website, go to:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/sep/07/ethicalliving.family?gusrc=rss&feed=environment |
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