Being prepared for the future can help businesses to build their resilience to the challenges that lie ahead. Of course, not all circumstances can be predicted and not every business is the same. Therefore, it is vital that each business does an assessment of the opportunities and risks.

To help you, this section explores the key issues facing horticulture businesses. It contains links to other sections of the Knowledge Hub with practical steps to consider and links to other useful resources.

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Webinar: Year round vegetable production - How to achieve all year round production?

All year round production is important for increasing turnover, spreading w…

Webinar: Green Manures and Cover Crops hosted by Andy Dibben

Head Grower at Abbey Home Farm a 1600 acre Mixed Organic Farm in Gloucester…

Technical Advice Sheet from the Vegetable Network Power Hour

The Tyfu Cymru Vegetable Network have launched an online power hour in orde…

Technical Advice Sheet: Growing Lavender

Lavender can be a new and unusual crop that can be integrated into a range…

Technical Advice Sheet: Growing Sunflowers

Sunflowers can make a very attractive addition to wide range of businesses.…

Welsh Ornamental Growers Immediate Experiences of and responses to COVID-19

This report presents findings from consultation with ornamental plant and c…

Sunflower Webinar

Tyfu Cymru hosted a webinar on sunflowers as there is currently a lot of in…

Vegetable Seed Training Programme: Webinar 5

The session will re-cap on the basic genetics of seed production, including…

Vegetable Seed Training Programme: Webinar 3

Our 12-month seed production training is designed to give you the tools to…

Vegetable Seed Training Programme: Webinar 4

Our 12-month seed production training is designed to give you the tools to…

Seed Training Programme - Webinar 1: Cultivation of simple crops for seed

This session introduces the key principles and looks at what we would consi…

Ben Hartman Webinar: Small Farm Composting and No-till Soil Building

In this webinar, Ben Hartman, author of The Lean Farm, will explain his eff…

Technical Advice Sheet: Strawberry, April 2020

This fact sheet provides technical advice on managing your strawberry crops…

Technical Advice Sheet: Raspberry & Cane Fruit

This technical advice sheet focuses on Raspberry and Cane Fruit, and provid…

Starting a Horticultural Attraction

The start of a new venture always begins with a fresh business idea. Once…

Webinar: Peat Free

This workshop was delivered by ADAS Horticulture consultants David Talbot a…

Vegetable Seed Training Programme: Webinar 1 – Seed Sovereignty

Producing an open pollinated seed crop on your farm can improve the quality…

Pick Your Own (PYO) Flowers – Diversification Opportunities

Although pick your own (PYO) has typically focused on soft fruit, there is…

Funding to Support Wales' Horticulture Sector

£227m to support Wales’ rural economy towards a greener and more sustainabl…

Controlled Environment Agriculture Article & Vertikit Case Study

Vertical Farming (VF) and Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) are the…

Vale Pick Your Own Diversification Success Story.

Watch this video case study of beef farmers Rob and Rachel and their succes…

Webinar: Considerations for leasing land and creating contracts

In this session we explored the terms that require consideration for both t…

Webinar: Vegetable Seed Training Programme - Webinar 9 - Managing and processing your seed

Our 12-month seed production training is designed to give you the tools to…

Webinar: Vegetable Seed Training Programme - Webinar 8 - Harvesting and cleaning your seed

Our 12-month seed production training is designed to give you the tools to…

Horticulture Leaders Forum – Expert panel debate 2

The second in a series of expert panel debates as part of the Horticulture…

Webinar: Vegetable Seed Training Programme - Webinar 7: Plant Selection 2

Our 12-month seed production training is designed to give you the tools to…

Webinar: Nut Power Hour

In our first Nut Power Hour Tom Tame from TR Tame & Son – Granary Oils & Wa…

Webinar: Horticulture Leaders Forum – Expert panel debate

A new Leaders Forum for owners, senior managers and aspiring managers from…

Webinar: Asparagus; a diversification crop for Wales

The webinar covers establishment and production including organic. Chris Cr…

Webinar: Diversifying into Horticulture: Considerations for leasing land, creating contracts, and hiring staff or trainees

In this session we will explore the terms that require consideration for bo…

Webinar: Keep it Welsh! Maximising your business potential for growth

The Diversifying into Horticulture Programme is designed to offer support t…

Webinar: Diversifying into Horticulture: Navigating the Planning Process

In this session, Lucie Taylor, a chartered town planner of 20 years and wor…

Webinar - Diversifying into Horticulture: Diversification business models and routes to market

The Diversifying into Horticulture Programme is designed to give non-hortic…

Webinar: Integrating Farm Tourism into your Horticulture Business

Have you considered a farm shop, a pop up café, a seasonal events calendar?…

Microbiological Risk - What can we do?

In this report, we will look at some specific organisms of concern, where t…

Webinar: Propagation methods and systems for Ornamentals

Traditionally ornamentals producers used to propagate much of their own sto…

Webinar: Introduction to Agricultural Standards for Commercial Horticulture Production

This introductory webinar will be an overview of what an agricultural stand…

Webinar: Cut Flower Production - Extending the season

One of the main barriers for people wishing to work with British Flowers is…

Webinar: Exports in Horticulture

From the 1st January 2021 the way we sell goods to the European Union will…

Webinar: Imports in Horticulture

As we approach 2021 and the end of the end of the Transition Period there w…

A Summary of the Key Messages from the Plant Health in Horticulture 2020 Conference

Professor David Skydmore - Senior Plant Health Professional summarises the…

The roles of trade associations in raising awareness and representing members

Pippa Greenwood is a very well-known broadcaster and author including being…

Plant Reproduction Toolkit

This toolkit forms part of the Tyfu Cymru Intermediate Vegetable Seed Train…

What is Certification and Accreditation all about?

Certification is the formal confirmation of certain characteristics of an o…

Commercial Horticulture Plan 2020

Horticulture is a key growth sector for Welsh Government. It is essential t…

What is Red Tractor Certification all about.

The Red Tractor standard was originally launched in 2000 and has developed…

Webinar: Planning for the 2021 Season – Soft Fruit

ADAS technical expert Chris Creed delivered an interactive session to assis…

Food Safety: What are the risks from food?

In the UK, we take food safety for granted, and very rarely consider what p…

Ben Hartman Webinar

Ben Hartman - Using the Lean System to Earn a Comfortable Living on a Farm…

Webinar: Peat Free Horticulture - Why and How?

Political and commercial pressures are increasing to cease the use of peat…

Seed Training Programme - Webinar 3 Selection of crop for seed

This third session will look at the principle involved at the selection sta…

Seed Training Programme - Webinar 2: Cultivation of trickier crops for seed

The second cultivation session builds on the first session and look at tric…

Horticulture Professional Development Programme Taster: Doing more with less...

This session aims to build horticulture resilience to current and future ch…

Tyfu Cymru and Charles Dowding Q&A - Part 2: No Dig Methods and Advantages for Intensive Cropping

Charles Dowding joins us for a Q&A session with Welsh commercial growers fo…

Tyfu Cymru and Charles Dowding Webinar Part 1: No Dig Methods and Advantages for Intensive Cropping

In the first part of this webinar Charles presents the benefits of no dig a…

Niels Corfield Webinar: Soil Health for Commercial Growers

In this webinar you will learn what the soil health principles are, where t…

Technical Advice Sheet Strawberry & Raspberry May 2020

This fact sheet provides technical advice on managing your strawberry and R…

Seed Production Resources

The Gaia Foundation and Tyfu Cymru are working in partnership to deliver tr…

Welsh Fruit and Vegetable Production - Baseline Study

This baseline study for Tyfu Cymru was conducted by Dr. Amber Wheeler and l…

Welsh Fruit & Vegetable Growers Immediate Experiences & Responses to the COVID-19 crisis.

This report presents findings from a survey with fruit and vegetable grower…

Pick your Own (PYO): What you need to know to get 5* rated…

In our series of industry insights, we provide some background to the marke…

Pick your Own (PYO): What you need to know to get 5* rated (part 2)

Part two of our Pick your Own Factsheet focusing on Marketing and Top Techn…

Tyfu Cymru and Ben Hartman Webinar

Further to our popular Ben Hartman workshop at Cae Tan in January, Ben has…