Tap Farm
Temperate Agroforestry & Permaculture
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Temperate Agroforestry & Permaculture

Welcome to TAP Forest Farm!

Situated below the ancient Pictish hill fort of Tap o’ Noth , known locally as ‘the Tap’, in Aberdeenshire, NE Scotland, Tap Forest Farm is home to the Reid family and is a demonstration and research farm for Permaculture Design and small farm scale Agroforestry.

As well as being a source of on the ground learning and research, the farm also produces ecologically grown fruit and vegetables and raises happy and healthy livestock all integrated within a multi-layered forested landscape - what we refer to as a forest farm.

Run by James and Rosa, the farm is a unique and inspiring foray into tree crop agriculture, Permaculture demonstration/education and off-grid farm-stay holidays and agritourism.

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Take a look at this short film from Regenerative Films who visited us in summer 2021 while we were still running our veg box business and starting to chat about all things agroforestry.

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Take a listen to how our food forest farm design has been evolving over the past few years. A few weeks ago James had the pleasure of showing BBC Scotland’s Helen Needham from Scotland Outdoors around our expanding forest garden farm. We had a
Our British Saanen dairy goats enjoying munching on a hazel bough, pretty much the last of the fresh leaves of the year as all the other trees have dropped their leaves. Luckily for the goats we have quite a few bundles of tree hay (dried branches)
Incredible autumn colours from the sweet chestnut at the moment. #sweetchestnut #chestnut #agroforestry #permaculture #autumncolours #foodforest #forestgarden #coppice #chestnutcoppice #scotland
With all our early apples picked it was time to pick the later varieties that we have, namely Ashmead’s Kernel and Edward V11. A small harvest as these trees are still young, but a lovely russet like variety (Ashmead’s) and a good cooker
Let’s have a chat... Over the past few years we have enjoyed offering mentorship and consultancy in all things marketing gardening and agroforestry, either privately or through organisations like @csanetwork_uk and most recently @fasscot We&
We’ve been bringing some new hens into our layer flock with some lovely Hylines, Light Sussex, Marans, plus a few more different breeds, giving us a flock of around 23 including our Australorp cockerel Bruce. We’ve constructed a brand ne
The summer sun caught in two gallons of cider, bright enough to keep any hints of the winter blues at arms length. #cider #homemadecider #hardcider #applejuice #demijohn #fermentation #homebrewing #permaculture #selfsufficiency
So wonderful to get a break from the rain and to see the sun. These guys have been very happy poking about in the soggy fields. #geese #grazing #silvopasture #goosesilvopasture #permaculture #agroforestry #foodforest #forestgarden #homestead
 

Tap Forest Farm

Rhynie | Aberdeenshire | AB544HH | Scotland

Contact: info.tapfarm@gmail.com