Pitch Up and Grow - with Tim May

My guest today is Tim May, Managing Director of Kingsclere Estates, a 1000ha organic and regenerative farm in Hampshire.

After completing a Nuffield Scholarship on sustainability in 2011, Tim set about transforming the estate to better align with the principles of personal, social, financial and of course, environmental sustainability. Today the estate produces organic cereals, and grazes a dairy herd on its biodiverse pastures, using an innovative mobile milking system.  

Tim now wants to get more people and more enterprises onto the farm, to make better use of its natural abundance, and start to build a circular community of businesses. To do this, Kingsclere has developed the Pitch Up and Grow programme, which invites food and farming entrepreneurs to explain how their business fits in with the commercial and sustainability goals of the estate.  

This year’s Pitch Up, which launches in November (2024), will see seven farms come together to offers access to land, and a wide range of other support to relevant startups.

Enjoy!

Tim in the mobile milking parlour at Kingsclere Estates

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• Olivia’s Substack

• Olivia’s Instagram

• Kingsclere Estates website

• Nuffield Farming Scholarship website

• The Omnivore’s Dilemma, by Michael Pollan

• Polyface Farms website

• Pitch Up and Grow website

• Kingsclere Estates farm walks

• Clarkson’s Farm

• Regenerative Agriculture Podcast, with John Kempf

Music by RomanSenykMusic via Pixabay