our story
A co-owned regenerative farm, and the people building it together.
Fifteen acres on the northern face of the South Downs, and a growing national network of households reclaiming their food, their land, and a way of life worth passing on.
how it started
Two people, fifteen acres, and a question worth answering.
In the summer of 2020, Keivor and Laure, the founders of My Little Farm, went on a series of long lockdown walks that ended in a decision. Leave the city. Find land. Learn to grow food properly, from seed to table.
By that autumn they'd acquired fifteen acres in the South Downs. Not as an investment, and not as an escape, but as a place to work out whether a different way of living was possible. They didn't know how to grow, how to keep hens, or how to compost. They learnt.
But the first year also made something else clear: a single household couldn't carry a small farm alone. The responsibility was ceaseless. The cost of doing it properly was beyond any one family. And yet the hunger for it, for real food, for land, for a slower rhythm, was everywhere.
What if a farm could be held by many?
where we are now
Five years on, and we're just getting started.
Our first farm, The Streat Garden, is alive. The shop opens its gates every Saturday. Over five hundred members back the land from every corner of the country. This growing network of stewards eats from it, belongs to it, and carries a stake in its soil. The question from 2020 has an answer, and the answer is bigger than we first imagined.
15ac
fifteen acres, the first farm
on the northern face of the South Downs
550+
Founding Members & Stewards
holding a stake in the land
100ac
the next farm, underway
anchored by the next 100 Founding Members
the team
A small team, on the land, every day.
My Little Farm is run by a core team of growers, makers, and caretakers, on the land in Sussex and on the phones and screens that keep the network alive. Founders Keivor and Laure lead the vision and the community. The rest of us tend the day-to-day.
the growers
Hands in the soil
The people who plant, weed, harvest, and care for the market garden, polytunnels, orchards and livestock. They're the ones who know what's ready each week, and why.
the makers
From field to kitchen
The people who butcher, preserve, bake, bottle, and finish. Everything the farm produces passes through their hands before it reaches the shop, the box, or your doorstep.
the community team
Keeping the network close
The people who host the Thursday calls, answer your questions, and make sure every new Steward gets a proper welcome. They are how this feels like a community and not a subscription.
the farmstead team
Quietly holding the ground
The people who look after the land, the infrastructure, the gates and the fences, the paths and the hedgerows. The work that doesn't trend on Instagram but without which nothing else holds.
We haven't put names and photos on this page just yet. The team prefers to let the farm speak first. If you come and visit, you'll meet them.
what's next
Fifteen acres, then a hundred, then a thousand.
This is only the beginning. The next step is a 100-acre farm, founded by the next 100 members, and beyond it a national network of farms held by the people who eat from them.
eat from the land
Stewarding Membership
Eat from and help care for a working farm in your region, once one is growing near you. The food, and everything that surrounds it.
found the next farm
Founding Membership
Step in as one of the hundred who found the next farm, and hold a stake in the land, kept for generations.
The whole vision, the farms, the national network, and the life it creates, is laid out on our mission page.
See what we're building →how it's held
Built to hold, across generations.
My Little Farm is being built to outlast any single generation. The operating business runs the farms and the community. The land is being placed under a protected trust structure, designed so it can't be sold for speculative gain or converted to non-agricultural use. And every member's stake is recorded in the Community Land Registry, dated, named and certified, with the structural protections deepening as we grow.
the business
My Little Farm
Operates the farms, runs the community, and handles the day-to-day work of feeding the network.
the land
Held in community ownership
An asset lock on the farmland: not for sale, not for development. Members are custodians, not landlords.
your stake
The Community Land Registry
Every member's square metres are dated, named, and certified, a record that persists across the life of the project.
where this leads
The best way to understand what we're building is to stand in it.
Join the community from wherever you are and hold your own stake in the land. Or come to the farm shop on a Saturday, walk the woodland, and meet the team.