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…
Vegetable Network
Technical Advice Sheet: Growing Lavender
Lavender can be a new and unusual crop that can be integrated into a range…
Cut Flowers Ornamental
Technical Advice Sheet: Growing Sunflowers
Sunflowers can make a very attractive addition to wide range of businesses.…
Cut Flowers Pick your Own
Welsh Ornamental Growers Immediate Experiences of and responses to COVID-19
This report presents findings from consultation with ornamental plant and c…
Ornamental
Sunflower Webinar
Tyfu Cymru hosted a webinar on sunflowers as there is currently a lot of in…
Cut Flowers Ornamental
Vegetable Seed Training Programme: Webinar 5
The session will re-cap on the basic genetics of seed production, including…
Seed Network
Vegetable Seed Training Programme: Webinar 3
Our 12-month seed production training is designed to give you the tools to…
Seed Network
Vegetable Seed Training Programme: Webinar 4
Our 12-month seed production training is designed to give you the tools to…
Seed Network
Seed Training Programme - Webinar 1: Cultivation of simple crops for seed
This session introduces the key principles and looks at what we would consi…
Seed Network
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…
Soft Fruit Network
Technical Advice Sheet: Raspberry & Cane Fruit
This technical advice sheet focuses on Raspberry and Cane Fruit, and provid…
Soft Fruit Network
Starting a Horticultural Attraction
The start of a new venture always begins with a fresh business idea. Once…
Opportunities in horticulture
Webinar: Peat Free
This workshop was delivered by ADAS Horticulture consultants David Talbot a…
Peat Free
Vegetable Seed Training Programme: Webinar 1 – Seed Sovereignty
Producing an open pollinated seed crop on your farm can improve the quality…
Seed Network
Pick Your Own (PYO) Flowers – Diversification Opportunities
Although pick your own (PYO) has typically focused on soft fruit, there is…
Diversifying
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…
Diversifying
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…
Seed Network
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…
Seed Network
Horticulture Leaders Forum – Expert panel debate 2
The second in a series of expert panel debates as part of the Horticulture…
Leaders Forum
Webinar: Vegetable Seed Training Programme - Webinar 7: Plant Selection 2
Our 12-month seed production training is designed to give you the tools to…
Seed Network
Webinar: Nut Power Hour
In our first Nut Power Hour Tom Tame from TR Tame & Son – Granary Oils & Wa…
Nuts
Webinar: Horticulture Leaders Forum – Expert panel debate
A new Leaders Forum for owners, senior managers and aspiring managers from…
Leaders Forum
Webinar: Asparagus; a diversification crop for Wales
The webinar covers establishment and production including organic. Chris Cr…
Vegetable Vegetable Network
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…
Diversifying
Webinar: Keep it Welsh! Maximising your business potential for growth
The Diversifying into Horticulture Programme is designed to offer support t…
Diversifying
Webinar: Diversifying into Horticulture: Navigating the Planning Process
In this session, Lucie Taylor, a chartered town planner of 20 years and wor…
Diversifying
Webinar - Diversifying into Horticulture: Diversification business models and routes to market
The Diversifying into Horticulture Programme is designed to give non-hortic…
Diversifying
Webinar: Integrating Farm Tourism into your Horticulture Business
Have you considered a farm shop, a pop up café, a seasonal events calendar?…
soft fruit Pick your Own Pumpkin Network
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…
Ornamental
Webinar: Introduction to Agricultural Standards for Commercial Horticulture Production
This introductory webinar will be an overview of what an agricultural stand…
Top Fruit soft fruit Vegetable Network
Webinar: Cut Flower Production - Extending the season
One of the main barriers for people wishing to work with British Flowers is…
Cut Flowers
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…
Seed Network
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…
Soft Fruit Network
Food Safety: What are the risks from food?
In the UK, we take food safety for granted, and very rarely consider what p…
Farm Assurance Vegetable Network
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 Network
Seed Training Programme - Webinar 2: Cultivation of trickier crops for seed
The second cultivation session builds on the first session and look at tric…
Seed Network
Horticulture Professional Development Programme Taster: Doing more with less...
This session aims to build horticulture resilience to current and future ch…
HPDP
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…
Vegetable Network Ornamental
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…
Vegetable Network Ornamental
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…
Soft Fruit Network
Seed Production Resources
The Gaia Foundation and Tyfu Cymru are working in partnership to deliver tr…
Seed Network
Welsh Fruit and Vegetable Production - Baseline Study
This baseline study for Tyfu Cymru was conducted by Dr. Amber Wheeler and l…
Top Fruit Soft Fruit Network Vegetable Network Pumpkin Network
Welsh Fruit & Vegetable Growers Immediate Experiences & Responses to the COVID-19 crisis.
This report presents findings from a survey with fruit and vegetable grower…
COVID-19
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…
Future Proofing Pick your Own soft fruit Pumpkin Network
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…
Future Proofing Pick your Own Potato soft fruit pumpkin
Tyfu Cymru and Ben Hartman Webinar
Further to our popular Ben Hartman workshop at Cae Tan in January, Ben has…