Whitmuir Organics
Whitmuir Organics is 140 acres of working organic farmland in the Scottish Borders, rearing beef cattle, pigs, sheep, hens and turkeys and growing vegetables, salad leaves and soft fruit. In term of infrastructure they create after the butchery a first shop and restaurant. At moment Whitmuir is sustain 20 jobs in a rural areas for more than 5 years. The farm advocates organic farming and is developed as a Living Learning Space for sustainable food and farming. Both farm and butchery are certified by the Soil Association.
A novel product that has benefits for primary producers because a central aspect of the marketing of the product is connections with local primary producers.
Supported by EU RDP in 2008 and Farm Business Diversification Scheme in 2005 . Designed own label and comply with organic standard.
SKIN - Short supply chains Knowledge & Innovation Network
Ongoing | 2016-2019
- Main funding source
- Horizon 2020 (EU Research and Innovation Programme)
- Geographical location
- Italy
Project Keywords
- Aquaculture
- Arable crops
- Organic farming
- Agro-ecology
- Crop rotation/crop diversification/dual-purpose or mixed cropping
- Competitiveness/new business models
- Farm diversification
- Food security, safety, quality, processing and nutrition
- Supply chain, marketing and consumption
- AKIS, incl. advice, training, on-farm demo, interactive innovation projects