The other day, I managed to contact a guy that used to work for REG, the Rural Enterprise Gateway, to see if he could help. I read somewhere that there were about 200 farmers in the North West that had contacted REG when it was still going, looking to diversify. So I thought at least he would have a database of these farmers that we could send a letter out to regarding the project to see if any of them wanted to form a partnership with us. Great idea - save having to send out a letter to every single farmer in Cheshire - approx. 900 according to yell.com!

I met up with him this afternoon and gave him all my documents to look through in the hope that he could go over the business plan from a farmers point of view. They do have a database of farmers but didn’t want to give out any names to me for privacy reasons, which I suppose I can understand. So, I need to write a letter which the college will send out to the farmers - great, except that he told me there was another lady who’s started who should be looking after this type of thing and not him. Oh well, off to write the letter now…..