Peter is joined by Hampshire farmer Tim May and Cornish farmer Dave Oates to discuss enterprise stacking and 'Pitch Up'.
In this episode we’re talking about increasing your overall business turnover, and in turn business resilience, through enterprise stacking. But we’re also talking about an innovative and exciting business pitching opportunity called ‘Pitch Up’ which was started by one of our guests on his farm in Hampshire.
Pitch Up! is an annual call-out for anyone with a start-up or growing business in the countryside looking for a farm to call home. It’s all about farmers sharing land, raw materials, retail space or production space as well as ideas, knowledge and contacts but also seeing the benefits.
Joining host Peter Green is Tim May who is the founder of PitchUp and Managing Director of Kingsclere Estates in Hampshire. Peter is also joined by Dave Oates, a Nuffield scholar and mixed farmer from south Cornwall who is part of the Pitch Up programme.
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Timestamps
00:15 Peter introduces the episode.
01:26 Tim introduces his business.
01:45 Dave introduces his business.
02:17 Tim introduces the concept of Pitch Up
05:42 Farming in 3D.
07:25 How did Dave get involved with Pitch Up?
08:50 Where does Pitch Up go for Dave?
09:38 What are the wider plans for Pitch Up?
11:05 The Michaelmas Fair
12:20 How do people get in touch and get involved?
13:06 Dave's Nuffield on stacking land uses. What is enterprise stacking?
14:44 Shift in thinking from a reductionist mindset to one of abundance.
17:10 How do other farmers see this?
19:00 Mindset - how do we change the perception of farming to multi output land use?
22:14 Tim's takes on the question of being a tenant and how this can work with tenants?
23:10 What advice would Tim give to interested farmers?
24:20 Dave's thoughts on this.
25:40 What is the low hanging fruit here?
27:17 Showstoppers.
28:35 Peter rounds up.