• Land – Coastline, pasture, cropping, wild harvest, and woodland – Located in the East Neuk of Fife
• Commercial food spec and production units
• Office space
• Produce and ingredients including waste produced from the farms and other businesses located on the Estate
• Shared running costs
• Business advise and support with connections to industry knowledge
• Marketing, social media, and PR support
• Passing retail trade – Balcaskie is in the heart of the East Neuk which is a holiday makers hot spot. Balcaskie’s existing commercial sites are well-known throughout Scotland.
• By joining the Balcaskie businesses you will find like-minded people who are looking to create something great while making a change for good.

Successful pitchers will join and work with businesses already focusing on a circular economy approach that ‘stacks’ enterprises to make the best and most sustainable use of the land including:

• Scotland the Bread, a collaborative farming, milling and bakery project to grow better grain and bake better bread with the common purposes of nourishment, sustainability and food sovereignty. It also supplies Baern Bakery at Bowhouse who specialise in naturally leavened bakes
• The Roaming Dairy, a mobile milking parlour, which enables cows to roam across pastures and be milked on location - improving soil fertility - and whose by-product provides The Roaming Smoker - an upcycled mobile meat smoker - with ‘old cow’ dairy beef from retired dairy cows, ensuring that nothing is wasted
• The Kinneuchar Inn, a field-to-plate pub and restaurant serving ingredients from the estate and East Neuk Market Garden, agroecological market gardeners
• Monch, a foraged sustainable pet food brand that encourages growth of the herbal leys and hedgerows supporting organic oat, quinoa and barley production and boosting biodiversity in successive reports

Tim May, managing director of Kingsclere Estates, who started the Pitch Up! scheme in 2021 said: “Our goal is to have a diverse mix of enterprises all operating off the land – and using each other’s by-product or waste. Nature thrives on diversity; it also fuels economic resilience, helps create a closed-loop system, and builds stronger rural communities.

“If we as landowners can all share knowledge, experience and resources instead of duplicating work or making the same mistakes, it’s better for everyone – and we can grow the impact and opportunities much faster. There’s an increasing focus at government level on collaboration between farms – this is a collaboration that can have multiple benefits for both rural economies and the environment they depend on.”