Growers

Get paid a year in advance for your crop

A fair price for your harvest

An existing orchard can simply designate some trees, put a value on likely yield and set their own price.

The current wholesale price will look very cheap to the renter and very profitable to the grower who will have only husbandry costs.

Rented trees need no picking, grading, packing, cold storage, packaging material, transport to market, or commission to a market agent.

What’s more, by knowing how many people will visit on designated days – controlling your costs – extra perishable produce from local farms can also be retailed with little risk of not being sold.

Benefits of renting your trees

Receive a fair price on all fruit from rented trees
Enjoy seeing renters appreciate your hard work producing lovely fruit
Valuing any less than perfect fruit by juicing it
Forge a direct, personal bond with your renters and their families
Foster a community of like-minded, respectful renters
Promote yours and other farmers' produce

Growers

List your orchard

What about new orchards?

Planting a new orchard is not a big financial outlay, especially if carried out in blocks, renting out a block before planting the next.

The real big costs for orchards are from harvest to sales, but as these costs don’t exist for rented trees, there is only the purchase of the trees and husbandry until cropping gets going.

As the orchard grows, renters can request the planting of certain varieties of trees, contributing to the initial planting costs, personalising the connection with the grower.

As the renter has a specific tree, a bond quickly forms with the tree. They feel part of the whole orchard and the tree becomes their tree, creating a lovely atmosphere between renter, grower and orchard.