FARMING families in the Staffordshire Moorlands are being invited to find out more about a project to help them look at alternative ways of developing their businesses.
The Future Farms project was launched at the Farming Life Centre on Monday.
The aim of Future Farms is to give farming families the opportunity to explore ways of staying in the industry.
The programme will bring together farmers from sround the region for a series of one-day visits and seminars which are due to take place over the next 10 months.
The events will be run by Julie White and Nick Platt, who are experienced rural business advisors and trainers.
Mr Platt, who has been involved in farming for many years, said: “Our aim is to learn about farming businesses that have diversified by visiting those businesses and finding out what worked and what didn’t.
“We’ll be stimulating ideas and showing that there are many different ways of doing something different to support the main farming business.”
Farming Life centre manager Julia Cook said: “We are particularly interested in attracting young farming people to take part, hopefully with their parents and maybe even grandparents too.
“Our past experience with similar projects shows that people who’ve come along really appreciate the opportunity to talk together and step back from the day-to-day demands of the farm to think about possibilities for the future.”