Farm Life

Everyone knows farming is very hard work, and foolhardy to try and start from scratch. You may have also noticed we don’t necessarily follow convention with the way we do things here at Twistillery. Normally, farms and farmers continue to work in traditional ways, and somewhere along the line, they need to diversify, and to look at other ways to keep their original farm viable. We’re kind of working the opposite way round with that, we’re diversifying, so that we can start farming.

Our plot isn’t huge, but it does give us lots of flexibility and scope to explore lots of farming activities without the huge overheads associated with enormous farms. We have started (and plan to expand) on the range of ingredients for our gin that we’ll need, and over time we hope that the vast majority of everything we use will come from our site.

We can further our biodiversity and sustainability credentials even more with livestock, which can be fed on some of the waste byproducts of production. The livestock in turn can fertilise the ground around us, which will improve the growing conditions for the crops we need without using chemicals. This closed loop ethos on the farm not only ensures we know where our products come from, we also know where everything ends up, we can reduce waste, and emissions making the whole farm as good for the environment as it can be.