farm stewardship · launching May 2027

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 in 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, and the long table a place you're always welcome.

The long table
The lake at dusk
A room for the night

You eat from it with a weekly box of food picked that morning, home delivered. You work from it — 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 by which you measure your seasons.

where this happens

Ninety-seven acres of Sussex becomes your garden.

Not a lawn and a fence, but a whole working landscape to wander: pasture grazed gently, an ancient woodland that keeps its own counsel, a mature orchard, hedgerows loud with birds, and a one-acre lake with an island you can row to.

what it feels like

A weekend on the land you'll steward.

Arriving at the farmhouse

Friday

You drive up and let yourself into the farmhouse — your room for the weekend already made up. The city falls away. The children find the pool, the treehouse, the edge of the lake, while you take a slow coffee on the terrace and feel your shoulders drop.

Lunch at the long table

Midday

Lunch at the long table — whatever was picked at dawn, cooked in the farmhouse kitchen, shared with the other founding families up at the house that day.

The market garden

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. This is your land, and it shows.

A fire in the barn

Evening

A founders' 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 estate.

The farm box you take home

Sunday

You leave with a box of food, a clearer head, and the quiet certainty that this land is yours — and your children's, after you.

your farm stewardship

£495 a month — and £250 of it is simply your food, redirected.

£250 Farm Credit / month Your grocery spend, redirected — boxes, farm shop, café.
50m² land stake / year A piece of the estate recorded in your name, growing for as long as you stay.
Seven-day access The members' house, grounds, pool, tennis, lake and woods.
The co-working space Desks and wifi — work from the farm.
Rooms to stay Member rates and priority booking, plus ten nights' camping a year.
The full community life Seasonal gatherings, Thursday calls, and the private member network.

how Farm Stewardship splits

£495 a month

£250 Farm Credit
£245 Membership

£250 Farm Credit — your grocery spend, redirected toward boxes, farm shop and café.

£245 membership — seven-day access to a hundred acres and your growing land stake.

The £250 is money you'd spend anyway. So the membership itself is really just £245.

Add-ons available, including a private garden plot of your own.

Apply to become a Farm Steward →

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; Farm Stewardship opens in May 2027.

No payment now. We read every application personally.

not ready to wait?

Begin today, as a Harvest Steward.

Farm Stewardship opens in May 2027 in Sussex. Harvest Stewardship is the way in now — the same real food, the same community, a growing stake in the land, for £195 a month. Begin today, and you'll be first in line for a Farm place when it opens.

Become a Harvest Steward → or see all Stewardship tiers →