Tap o' Noth Farm

8 acre small farm and Permaculture demonstration site in rural Aberdeenshire.

Tap o' Noth Farm is an 8 acre small, mixed market farm and demonstration site and education site situated on the slopes of Tap o' Noth hill on the outskirts of the village of Rhynie in NE Scotland.

Tap o' Noth Farm produce ecologically grown produce (sold through a CSA scheme) and organise and run courses and workshops in the fields of ecological design, sustainable agriculture and re-skilling in traditional rural crafts and practices.

Our purpose designed demonstration site is a mixture of south facing sloping fields, mixed broadleaf woodland, pines, ponds and wetlands. While still a fledgling site, Tap o’ Noth Permaculture is growing at a rapid pace with ever expanding food gardens, poultry systems, polytunnels and fruit cages, worm farms, emerging forest gardens and agroforestry systems, main crop areas, swales, multifunctional/ multi species windbreak hedgerows, ponds, compost toilet facilities plus many more exciting and informative ecologically designed systems.

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https://hedgeandfurrow.co.uk/

In our local biome, if we were to leave our fields alone and un-grazed they would, over time, revert back to mixed species woodland. Here the old adage "work with nature rather than against" comes to our minds. While we love the idea of living within a woodland we also want to practice agriculture, growing sun loving crops and raising livestock that feed our family and local community. So rather than deciding to have one or the other - trees or farm - we can choose both and blur the line between conservation and agriculture by utilising methods like Agroforestry to combine productive trees, crops and livestock all on the same area of land.