Find your place in the field of good food

Our goal is to connect good people with good food. We advertise sustainable food jobs and training opportunities to help jobseekers and employers find each other.

Roots to Work is a project of Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming.

Job description

Feral Farming is a small CIC, a partnership of local farmers, land owners and ecologists.  One of our aims is to enable people from non-traditional farming backgrounds, to become farmers and food producers. 

We are seeking innovative and highly motivated individuals based in Herefordshire who wish to set up their own businesses, as self employed farmers / food producers, to join us, under the Feral Farming umbrella.   

We can provide access to land, some basic training, access to processing equipment to turn farm produce into healthy food products and marketing support to sell it direct to the public. 

We have land available which has potential for free range pigs, traditional breed cattle, free range chickens, market gardens focused on veg/flowers/ fruit etc., and numerous other environmentally sound ideas of your own!  

These opportunities enable people to set up their own businesses.  We do not directly employ people.  We are a small team of self employed farmers and ecologists.  We will help you, but you must have the determination and drive to create a  successful food/farming business.  We are not providing accommodation for anyone setting up a business.  There are no opportunities to live on the land available to be farmed.

We are an umbrella organisation, we work with private landowners who wish to improve the biodiversity of their land or re-wild it.  We provide ecological management advice, grazing animals and machinery to enable environmentally beneficial land management.  We produce food with higher animal welfare standards than any certification scheme, our animals live long natural lives, bulls, mothers and calves stay together, whether kept for dairy or meat, calves self wean at a natural age.  Animals forage in diverse meadows and woodlands all year round.  Able to behave naturally, self medicate on species rich woods, hedges and meadows, they roam large areas, and rotate onto fresh pastures to benefit soil carbon storage.  They are fed no GM, no imported feeds, no soya, only organic, species rich hay when they need it in winter.  Our grains are not grown as monocultures but sown as diverse organic mixes, with multiple varieties of grain, sown together with beans and deep rooted flowering plants such as chicory and plantain to provide ground cover and bring up trace minerals from deeper in the soil layers.  

At present we have a loyal following at farmers markets and a good reputation for high quality, healthy and delicious foods, so far this includes heritage organic grain varieties which are processed into flour, pasta, crackers and breads, pies, burgers, and meat from our sheep, cattle, pigs and hens.   

We are in the process of developing a website, but our instagram account is currently @chapelhouse_farm

Application information

If you are interested in any of these Herefordshire based opportunities, or have ideas of your own, which you are seeking land in Herefordshire for, please email Louise with as much detail as possible at Louise.Bodnar001@gmail.com 

At present all the land we manage is in  South Herefordshire, close to the Welsh border.  

Please include a cover letter with information about yourself, age, background, home address, your motivations and and give us as much information about the business you'd like to create as possible.  

Thank you!  We look forward to hearing from you. 

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