The Really Useful
Farming Company 

Horticulture Consultancy

We can show you how to grow fruit, salads and vegetables

Helping you to grow food
and your business

We will help to set up your horticultural business from enterprise planning, crop planning, cashflow planning to machinery and field layouts.

Based in Hertfordshire, we specialise in helping to set up and develop horticulture enterprises. We advise on salads, vegetables, soft fruit and orchards. Our advisors have a lifetime experience of small horticulture selling produce to local markets and local food service.  We often help new enterprises from one acre to many acres.

We prefer to help over at least a year to be paid by a monthly retainer, we can help with individual projects with payment by negotiation.

Enterprise Planning

We can help to plan your enterprise looking at soils, labour capacity, weather and demographics.

Cashflows

We can help develop cashflow spreadsheets for business planning. 

Borrowing and Funding

We can help to create business plans and forecasts for borrowing and funding applications.

Plants, Seeds and Trees

We can help find the plants you need from commercial growers to develop your business.

Crop Planning

We can help to design cropping plans that will fit your soil, climate demographic and enterprise plan. 

Machinery Purchase and Use

We have years of experience finding suitable new and second hand small machinery suitable for growing vegetables.  We can modify and repair and show you how to set it up and use it.