Kerner Field Notes
After corporate and business advisory careers, Tim & Bev Haywood started again. In 2017 at the age of 54, they bought a rundown business and then built it into an award winning rural enterprise.
The Kerner Field Notes are their observations, ideas and practical thinking arising from their vineyard experience, visits to other businesses, and from wider conversations across the rural visitor economy. Intended to be useful and thought provoking, they contain the ideas behind everything they do.
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What Luxury Actually Means
Three Scottish hotels confirming what we think about the key ingredient of good hospitality
A Spotless Glass
Small repetitive care, and why it carries the weight of a small business. It’s all in the detail
Too Sustainable for the Sustainability Industry
Why this former FTSE250 CFO and Head of Sustainability gave up on box-ticking — and got greener when we bought an vineyard in Worcestershire
What Happens When You Tell The Truth
The most useful thing you can offer someone starting out is not your success. It’s your honesty about the road that led there.
What's On The Plate
Four bites, three producers, and the local economy we support – putting values into action
The Kindle, the Sledgehammer, and the Myth of "Away"
What a 14-year-old e-reader and a vineyard viewing platform tells Tim about recycling.
A Bowl of Nuts
The most useful thing you can offer someone starting out is not your success. It’s your honesty about the road that led there.
A Soundtrack of Skylarks
The Astley estate is a 10-acre sanctuary where 50 types of fungi and 66 species of birds are the true priorities
A Table is An Invitation
Hospitality is not about what you put on the table. It is about what happens when people sit down together.
Wine+ Grapes + Weather
Working on the land is hard, particularly when the weather is working against you. Thoughts on being a farmer
