A regenerative farm in Sussex, working the slow way.

How we farm, and why it matters.

Living soil. Heritage breeds. No synthetic chemicals. No pharmaceutical shortcuts. A working farm that gives back to the land it takes from — and grows food you can taste the difference in.

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the slow way

Most farming takes from the land. Ours gives back.

Industrial agriculture treats the land as a machine — inputs in, outputs out, soil depleted, water polluted, biodiversity collapsed. We farm the other way. Every decision is made to leave the soil more alive, the animals healthier, and the landscape richer than we found it. It takes longer. It costs more. The food is better. The land is, too.

Four principles shape everything we do — here they are.

The vegetable garden, grown in living soil

principle one

Living soil, beyond organic.

The nutrition of a carrot is only as good as the soil it's grown in — and across much of British farmland, that soil is depleted. Decades of industrial methods, synthetic inputs, and monoculture have stripped it of the microbial life that makes food nutritious in the first place.

We work the other way around. We build soil by tending its microbiology — composting, cover cropping, rotation, and leaving the ground living through winter. The result is nutrient-dense crops grown without herbicides or pesticides, on ground that gets richer year on year rather than poorer. Our vegetable production is completely free from synthetic chemicals.

principle two

Heritage breeds, natural immunity.

We choose our livestock the way farmers did for centuries — by hardiness, temperament, and what the land can actually support. Heritage breeds are slower-growing, but they thrive on pasture, weather the seasons, and hold deep reserves of natural resilience.

That resilience lets us raise animals without reaching for pharmaceutical shortcuts. Strong immune systems come from good forage, clean water, fresh air, and room to move. The result is meat, milk, and eggs of a quality you can taste — produced by animals that have lived a genuinely good life.

Forest garden and meadow, regenerative landscape

principle three

Regenerative, not extractive.

Industrial farming takes more from the land than it gives back. Regenerative farming reverses the equation. Everything we do — crop rotation, cover cropping, composting, pasture management, hedgerow planting — is chosen to leave the land healthier than we found it.

You can see the results on the ground: more beneficial insects, more wildflowers, more birdsong, more earthworms in a spade of soil. A farm can be productive and wild at the same time. That's the point.

The whole Sussex landscape, farmed holistically

principle four

Holistic, from the ground up.

The soil, the animals, the orchards, the hedgerows, the team, the community — none of these exist in isolation. A decision made for the vegetable garden affects the pollinators; a decision about the pigs shapes the pasture; a decision about the pasture shapes the soil.

So we farm holistically — small-scale, carefully, and with the whole ecosystem in view. It takes longer and yields less per acre than industrial methods. In return, it gives us food of extraordinary quality, a landscape teeming with life, and a way of working the land that can last for generations.

acres in Sussex,
tended since 2021

550+

households across the UK
eating from the farm

synthetic chemicals,
routine antibiotics, or shortcuts

100

more acres now being secured
in the same county

The Streat Garden — pasture, hedgerow, woodland edge

the place

Fifteen acres near Lewes, known by name and season.

The Streat Garden sits in the low downs of East Sussex — a working farm of pasture, vegetable beds, orchards, and hedgerow. Every field has a name. Every season has its work. We've farmed here since 2021, building the soil, the team, and the membership that supports it.

It's not a large farm. That's part of the point. Small enough to know intimately, productive enough to feed hundreds of households, regenerative enough to leave the land better than we found it.

"The land is the only thing that lasts. Everything we do is shaped around that one fact."

— Keivor, co-founder of My Little Farm

if this speaks to you

A farm like this doesn't exist without you.

Regenerative farming at this scale, with this much care, is only possible because households commit to it directly. Stewardship is how the farm gets funded — and how the food, the community, and the land stay in the hands of the people who eat from it.

If the principles on this page speak to you, the most direct way to act on them is to become part of the farm that puts them into practice. Read everything Stewardship is — then decide.

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