Introducing our new team member… Tigs

Stepping into the big boots that Mara left behind, we would like to introduce you to Tigs.

Tigs joined the Denmark Farm team in June 2025 as the new Engagement Manager, in a role that felt like the perfect culmination of all her skills.

Before moving to Wales in 2023, Tigs studied for a degree in Marketing and worked as a marketing manager for a large educational IT business, but although these are valuable skills now, this wasn’t where her passion was… Tigs spent several years learning holistic therapies, and become a Zoopharamcognosy practitioner (the domesticated version of Cae Ysbyty), and has a love of learning about plants as medicine.

Now living on a 12-acre smallholding in Cellan, her skillset has had to expand rapidly to learn dry stone walling, stock fencing, and a host of other rural skills demanded by the land she is currently caring for!  Having the space to grow her own food is important and so hacking through 8ft brambles to create a new no-dig vegetable garden is part of the current learning experience. 

In her spare time, Tigs enjoys trying new crafts, and has enjoyed learning pottery, basket weaving and is now an archery addict! She also enjoys spending time with her chickens, foraging and exploring local beaches, woodlands, castles and lanes with her two dogs. Mae hi’n dysgu Cymraeg hefyd!

Tigs will be managing our fundraising efforts, and the training centre, so if you have a burning itch to try out a rural skill or heritage craft that we don’t currently offer, then please get in touch at tigs@denmarkfarm.org.uk.