First time farmer and not sure where to start?

Calmer Farmer offers first-time hobby farmers the opportunity to access farm assessment and planning short courses, 1:1 mentoring, and skill building sessions to help you to become a better farmer. Let us help you understand your farm, make it productive and GET IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME.

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Our Services

The Calmer Farmer hobby farm consultant isn’t like many other agricultural consultants, farm managers, or contractors. I don’t just look at what you have, then tell you what to do. I TEACH you how to understand your farm from the soil up, so you can make confident decisions based on the knowledge you have gained whilst working with us. Owning a property is a huge investment of both your time and finances. You want to know that what you put into your property is going to improve it, not end up being a costly mistake.

1:1 COACHING
calmer farmer short courses
  • Online
  • 1:1 Mentoring Sessions
  • Tailored Advice
  • Task guidance specific to your farm
  • Gain greater understanding of your farm resources
  • Help with goals & decisions

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STRATEGY SESSIONS

Enhance your farm’s potential with a personalized Strategy Session. During this 90 minute session, I will dedicate my time to grasp your current situation and gain a clear understanding of your farming aspirations.

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Consultancy

This 12 month program begins with a full property report of your farm’s initial resources, followed by a series of intensive planning sessions to discuss what you want to achieve. A six month program is now also available.

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Testimonials

We are well on our way now to reaching our pasture goals

I cannot thank you enough Christine at Calmer Farmer for all of your time and such valuable advice. Moving to property from the city was very overwhelming, we never imagined there was so much to learn about pasture, weeds, fencing, treeline for protection, sheep, chooks, vegetable gardens, soil management and the list goes on and on. Your property assessment report is so thorough, detailed, and extremely helpful and is a great tool for us to look back on when we need to. We are happy to say we are well on our way now to reaching our pasture goals and it is all thanks to you. I could not recommend you highly enough and look forward to you helping us again in the future. Thank you so much!

Sue K

We haven’t looked back!

My family and I moved onto acreage property for the first time in the last 16 months. While the block is beautiful, there was no infrastructure for paddocks, sheds or even a vegetable garden. Our block was a blank slate. We loved the idea of living on the land but we had no idea where to start when it came to where to locate everything and how to go about it all. We discovered Christine at the Calmer Farmer late last year and haven’t looked back. Christine took the time to really get to know what we wanted out of our property and has helped us work through our planning stages for various areas on our block.
Her knowledge and practical implementation of all things farming and agriculture have been so beneficial to us. We now understand our land so much better and it has been great to see some of our plans really take shape over the last few months. Looking forward to seeing so many more positive changes to our property over the coming year. We are so happy to have found Christine!
Aimee and Rowan R

Christine’s report has provided the answers to the ‘Where to now?’ questions.

Christine’s report was a great help to us on our small-holding property. Her assessment of all the land, soil and pasture condition has provided excellent information for the answer to the “Where to now?” question. We’re on to the planning phase now so the next steps are a bit cerebral and then the fun begins!

David S