Record 0911Case study
80 ha
organic farm site developed and run
Read from Company and project record
Co-founding and building an organic farm from the ground up: production infrastructure, nursery and microgreens systems, market channels, people and day-to-day operations.
Project frame
The site began as bare agricultural land. Turning it into a functioning enterprise required physical infrastructure, crop and nursery systems, routes to market, administration and a team capable of operating the farm.
Co-founder and director responsible for developing the farm, its operating systems and its routes to market.
Organic field production, tunnels, a seedling nursery, microgreens and a pack house.
Restaurants, Shoprite, Food Lover's Market and catering companies.
Work in practice
Developed the farm from bare land into a working 80-hectare agricultural enterprise.
Established tunnels, a seedling nursery, microgreens production and pack-house capacity.
Built operational systems spanning production, harvest, packing, administration and customer orders.
Created multiple routes to market across retail, hospitality and catering customers.
Used the farm as a practical training environment for plant production, soil work, machinery, livestock, administration and marketing.
From land to enterprise
Mighty Greens joined field crops, protected production, propagation, harvesting, packing, people and customers. Rory’s remit reached across that whole operating chain: developing the physical farm while building the routines and team needed to keep produce moving through it.
Field crops, tunnels, nursery and microgreens.
Crop planning, harvest routines and pack-house flow.
Workplace training, supervision and day-to-day systems.
Retail, restaurant and catering routes to market.
Tools matched to the task
Permanent raised beds kept growing ground separate from paths and wheel traffic. Rory matched the tool to the scale of the job, moving from hand work to a BCS walk-behind tractor, compact tractors and full-size field machinery.
Broadforks and hand tools worked the soil at the most direct scale.
The BCS walk-behind tractor added a compact powered option.
Smaller tractors provided the next step in the farm’s equipment range.
Large tractors completed the range for work at field scale.
Permanent bedsDefined growing ground concentrated compost, irrigation and careful cultivation where crops needed them, while paths carried people and machinery.
Tatsfield / Mighty Greens · in production
An early-morning view across rows of green and red lettuce at Tatsfield, filmed on 8 May 2024.
Nursery work & training
Original Tatsfield / Mighty Greens films from September and October 2023, showing nursery work and practical training.
Inside Mighty Greens
Original Tatsfield / Mighty Greens photographs from the 2022–2024 project archive.
organic farm site developed
employees at the documented operating stage
named market channels across retail and hospitality
production, nursery, microgreens and pack-house system
As co-founder and director, I developed the farm’s infrastructure and managed production, staffing, records and sales across retail, restaurant and catering customers.
Evidence & interpretation
Confirmed company and operating record
The operating records document farm area and employment. Reference letters describe individual responsibilities.
Tatsfield / Mighty Greens operating records, crop-planning files, portfolio history and original site media, 2022–2024.
Reference letters document workplace training and responsibilities for named team members.
