the club
The members' house
Seven-day access to the estate, the members' house and its long table, the community meetups, and complimentary invitations to the eight seasonal celebrations. Belonging for your whole household, children included.
farm stewardship · peppers farm
Your family's place in the country.
A working farm you eat from, work from, stay at, and belong to. Seven days a week, a hundred acres of Sussex are yours to walk into.
By application · opening at Peppers Farm, West Sussex · May 2027
a home you belong to
Not somewhere you visit.
Somewhere you belong.
Farm Stewardship isn't a club you check into, or a second home you maintain. It's a working farm that becomes part of your family's week. The traditional farmhouse becomes your home, the hundred acres your back garden, the long table a place you're always welcome at.
You eat from it with a weekly box of food picked that morning, home delivered. You work from it with a desk in the barn while the children roam. You stay on it with rooms to book or nights under the stars. And slowly, it becomes the place you measure your seasons by.
a home, shared
A six-bedroom farmhouse, kept the way you'd want it kept.
For thirty-five years, one family cared for this house. Original beams, real fires, a farmhouse kitchen with an Aga that has cooked thousands of meals. We're not building a clubhouse — we're opening a home.
The kitchen becomes the long table, where members gather for harvest dinners and learn to cook what the garden cut that morning. The reception rooms become lounges to sink into with a book and a fire. The study becomes the quiet room. And upstairs, rooms to stay the night.
where this happens
Ninety-seven acres of Sussex, already alive.
Peppers Farm sits near Ashurst, in the lee of the South Downs — pasture managed for thirty-five years without harm, an ancient deciduous wood, a mature orchard, hedgerows holding the old field boundaries, and a one-acre lake with an island you can row to. The barns are already standing, already wired. The land is already layered, and asking only to keep going.
It's close, too: minutes from Steyning, under twenty from Brighton, a train from Horsham to London. A working farm you can reach on a Friday and disappear into by lunch.
97acres freehold
6-bedfarmhouse
1-acrefishing lake
~18.6ksq ft of barns
what it feels like
A Friday that doesn't feel like a transaction.
Friday morning
You drive up from town and drop your bag in a farmhouse room booked for the weekend. The laptop goes down in the co-working barn — good wifi, woodsmoke, coffee from the café. You work the morning while the children find the pool, the treehouse, the edge of the lake.
Midday
Lunch at the long table — whatever was picked at dawn, cooked in the farmhouse kitchen, shared with whoever's up at the house that day.
Afternoon
You wander the market garden and carry back what's ready, while the children join the forest-school session in the wood. Someone is fishing the lake. No one is hurrying.
Evening
A members' dinner, or a fire in the barn for one of the eight gatherings that mark the year. You don't drive home. You stay, and wake up on the farm.
Sunday
You leave with a box of food, a clearer head, and a piece of this land growing quietly in your name.
four things, one membership
A club, a workspace, a place to stay, and a working farm — on the same hundred acres.
work from the land
The co-working barn
Desks, wifi and quiet in a timber barn. Work the morning while the family roams; bring your team for an away-day in the riding-school hall. The countryside as your office, on the days you need it.
stay
Rooms for the night
Book a room in the farmhouse, a cottage, or the lakeside retreat — member rates, priority booking, plus your nights under canvas. A place in the country with no second mortgage and no house to mind.
the working farm
The land & the food
£250 of Farm Credit a month, a growing 50m² stake in the land, the weekly box, pick-your-own, the orchard, the pool and the lake. The authentic heart no club on earth can copy.
the simplest way to picture it
Soho House — if it fed your family, and the land was partly yours.
A members' club gives you somewhere to belong, but you only ever spend. Farm Stewardship gives you the belonging — and gives back.
£250 of your £495 a month is simply your grocery budget, redirected onto land you hold a growing stake in. The membership itself nets to around £245 — less than a single Soho House membership, for the whole household, with the food, the land and the stays included.
your farm stewardship
£495 a month. And £250 of it is simply your food, redirected.
- £250/month Farm Credit — your grocery spend, moved onto your own land. Boxes, farm shop, café.
- A 50m² land stake each year — a piece of the estate recorded in your name on the Community Land Registry, compounding for as long as you remain.
- Seven-day access to Peppers — the members' house, grounds, pool, tennis, lake and woods.
- The co-working barn — wifi and desks, work from the farm.
- Rooms to stay — member rates and priority booking, plus up to ten nights' camping a year.
- Complimentary invitations to the eight seasonal gatherings.
- The full community life — Thursday calls and the private member network.
Add-ons available — including a private garden plot of your own, designed and tended for you.
£245 net
Apply to become a Farm Steward →
Of your £495, £250 is food you'd buy anyway. The remaining £245 buys seven-day access to a hundred acres and a growing 50m² stake in the land.
how it opens
Secured now. Open from May 2027.
The estate is being secured now. As we take possession, we bring the farm to life — pasture, market garden, the members' house. Places are limited, held to the quiet the farm is here to protect, and the earliest to apply take their place first.
now
The estate is secured
first season
Possession & the farm begins
May 2027
Farm Stewardship opens
take your place
Apply to become a Farm Steward.
We keep Farm Stewardship small — held to the quiet the farm is here to protect. Tell us a little about you, and we'll be in touch as places open. No payment now; Peppers opens May 2027.
No payment now. We read every application personally.