Crofting Training

Setting up a Local Food Business

for Crofters

You raise livestock, hens, or grow your own vegetables and fruit on your croft. Now you are wondering if there is a way to sell your produce locally and develop your own local food business. Perhaps you have been selling a wee bit locally and are thinking of scaling up.

But where to start?

With Jo Hunt, of Knockfarrel Produce in Dingwall, and other inspiring croft-based food producers, our new training programme will take you step-by-step through the process of setting up a local food business using your croft produce.

Based on years of experience, Jo et al will guide you through the practicalities, the potential pitfalls, the rules & regulations, how to make the figures add up, what support is available, selling and marketing!

The programme will be offered through a series of online evening workshops and eight two-day in-person courses in a variety of locations.

We’re getting started with five online workshops in September and November:

Wednesday 2nd September – Food Regulations and How to Apply Them – Beth Rose.

Wednesday 16th September – How to set up a Local Food Hub 1 – Food Lochaber

Wednesday 30th September – An Introduction to Selling Meat Boxes – Sally Crowe

Tuesday 3rd November – Vat and other Numbers

Tuesday 17th November – What Funding is Available?

More dates, topics and venues to follow.

£5 members / £15 non-members per online workshop

Sign up for one or more event. We look forward to seeing you there!

With thanks to the Scottish Government’s Knowledge Transfer and Innovation Fund (KTIF) and the Pebble Trust for funding a significant proportion of the costs of the programme.