Besides Richards’ broad and intensive experience working as a professional designer and educator in this field for 20 years, Richard has demonstrated and documented how to make a good living from a small diverse farm.  Whilst there are many trainings of this nature out there around the world, there are very few professional educators with such rounded experience who actually make a living from production. Richard is focused on the transmission of field-based knowledge and insight, not the sharing of ideas and concepts.  He is dedicated to supporting others into farming and producing for themselves in a way that restores soils and habitats, community and local economy. His experience shows that it is clearly the ‘back end’, the decision-making and planning, the economics and monitoring that makes it all work.