Your Farm, Your Legacy,
Your Community
We know how much your farm means to you. For years, you've worked to build a legacy, but you don't have family ready to take over the reins. The good news? You're not alone and your desire to leave a legacy can inspire something much bigger for you and your community.
You've spent a lifetime on this farm. How it changes hands matters.
Start with your plan. Read Ageing on Farm and work through it yourself, or sit down with us and we'll build it with you. It's the one thing we ask of every family before anything else, because handing on a farm is a big commitment.
Then, if you'd rather not carry it on your own, there are two ways we can carry it for you:
Your farm, in good hands. You keep your farm. We find the right next generation farmer, set up the arrangement that fits, whether sharefarming, a lease or another way, and look after it with you for as long as you want. It works where your farm can carry a good farmer and the numbers work for both of you.
The Cultivate Trust. Your farm moves into the Cultivate Trust, which runs it on your behalf, with the right farmer on it.
Bring others on board too. If your place can't hold a good farmer on its own, your neighbours' farms might be the answer, because we can run several farms in a district as one operation. And if your town wants to keep its farms, get your mayor to bring us in.
And if you'd rather find your own farmer, the guide shows you how.
What we can do with you
The Cultivate Trust
There is a pathway for a farm to stay farmed and in local hands. A retiring family places their land in the Cultivate Trust, or local backers bring a farm in, and the right farmer goes on it, with a real way to make that farm their own.
Advisory support
Advisory support puts someone in your corner on your own farm and your own plans. The guides are free and cover the big moves; this is for when you want us across your actual situation.
Get in touch
Start for Free
Download all our knowledge for free, in the Cultivate Farms' Ageing On-Farm Guide.
Find detailed guidance on how to explore your options for your farming legacy, with practical advice from financial considerations through to finding the right farmer yourself.
See how other retiring farmers have successfully transitioned and inspired a new generation of farmers.
Your Next Steps
Multiple pathways to secure your farm's future.
Read the Guides
Ageing on Farm, the Succession Guide and Your Farm, Your Legacy walk you and your family through every option. All free.
Build Your Plan
A few questions and you leave with a real plan for your farm and your family. Free, and yours to keep.
Learn About the Cultivate Trust
There is a way to step back from the farm without selling it. Download Your Farm, Your Legacy and see whether it fits your place.
Your Legacy Deserves a Future