A pilot scheme has been launched in Cornwall to put landowners with spare land in touch with people who want to start food and farming businesses.
Tamar Grow Local has worked on the project for two years and is now running the scheme with national partners to provide a farming service across the UK.
Organisers said there have been 200 registrations, three successful land matches, and another 15 in discussion working towards an agreement to set up on various sites.
Rachael Forster, co-ordinator of Landmatch England, said: "It works within the nature friendly, regenerative sector and to support new entrants into starting new farming enterprises."
Elinor Willcocks was one farmer with spare land after she and her partner moved to North Wales. In 2022, she created a small market garden on land at her family farm at St Erney, which is still a working beef farm.
She land-matched with Alice Kennish, who was seeking land and has now become Willcocks' new tenant.
"We made a sort of advert for the garden and the day it was posted Alice also posted her advert for her land seeker application and we just thought we were the perfect fit," said Willcocks.
Kennish rents the land to run her cut flower business. Although starting in April, the ground is vibrant and full of colour, with hundreds of seeds waiting in the wings to be planted.
She said: "I worked really, really hard. It's been a huge undertaking.
"But I knew I wanted flowers this season, because this is how I make my living.
"If I don't grow the thing to sell the thing, I don't make any money, I can't pay my rent.
"There's a lot you need to do in the beginning to get the volume in order for me to sell it."
Forster said: "We support with business planning, we support though facilitating matches, from first meetings and introductions, right through to the start of creating a lease for a new farming business."
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Cornwall Scheme Pairs Landowners With New Food Growers