agriculture beta?

Hi friends, wondering if any of you are available to beta on the farmcore aspects of the next story in my TDiR series; I know some of you have related special interests! I'm looking for information about reparative agriculture in England in the early 1990s; what kind of liberal farming was commonly practiced, if in my story I should set them up as certified permaculture or locavore or halal or organic or some other sort of period-specific utopian project.

My characters are starting from scratch in an old farmstead that's just been lived in for a few decades, not farmed, and I'm trying to figure out what I need to have them plant/rear and also what to pursue in terms of grants and funding, investments ect. The story is set in August/September through May or so, in the Thames River Valley; I've been using Susan Cooper's childhood home of Dorney as my geographical stand-in for the location of the village.

( Here's what I've got so far. )