What we've found, and what we're building.

Why now, and what it means for our first farm, High View.

This isn't a pivot away from our first farm. It's the opposite. We've outgrown the space. The box packing and the food storage need somewhere bigger. The livestock side of the business, the rotational grazing for the cattle and sheep needs more land to take real shape. And the community needs a place that can welcome more of us at once, more often, more fully.

Taking on the next farm is what gives High View the space to breathe. It becomes a secret garden for our first Founding Members. Held close. Held small.

The community gardens continue. The hens keep laying. The little farm shop stays open. The gatherings stay intimate, just as you've known them.

And we keep shaping the land. The ponds and wetlands establish. More trees get planted. The forest gardens expand across more of the land, year on year, until the whole place is as fully abundant as we've always known it could be.

A new farm we're quietly falling in love with.

We've identified an estate. Almost one hundred freehold acres, tucked into a valley beneath the South Downs. It's been held by one family for thirty-five years, and you can feel the love they've poured into it the moment you walk the land.

What it becomes for us is somewhere to be held. A sanctuary. A second home for the part of you that's been asking for one. The farm your children grow up on. Somewhere you drive to on a Friday afternoon and come back from on Sunday softer than you left.

A working farm and a retreat, at once. Eggs warm from the coop. Supper lifted straight out of the garden. Long meals with people who chose the same life. Quiet when you need it. Company when you don't.

It's the place we've been searching for. It has everything we need, all of it already in place, waiting in some sense for exactly what we're going to bring to it.

Conversations with the owners are delicate and negotiations are live, so nothing is secured yet. But you can get a taste of it in this short video from the agent, here.

Two paths to get there.

An estate of this scale needs £6m committed to acquire. There are two paths to that number, and we're walking both at once.

Path one is lease-to-own.

We partner with the current owners on a lease over three to five years, with a committed purchase price fixed at the outset. This gets us onto the land immediately. We start farming. We start welcoming the Founding Members of the next estate. And during the lease, we raise the acquisition capital from that Founding Member cohort. At the end of the term, we complete the purchase.

Path two is an investor partnership.

A land-secured facility, placed against the estate itself, repaid through Founding Member build plan payments over the five years that follow. The land is the security. The community is the repayment.

Both paths lead to the same place. And both, ultimately, depend on the same thing.

The next steps.

Whichever path carries us across the line, it comes back to you. Estate owners need to see commitment. Investors need to see commitment. Solicitors, lenders, anyone standing between us and this land needs to see commitment. That commitment comes from Founding Members stepping forward and signalling, clearly, that this vision is backed.

We'll be launching our next Founding Member campaign shortly, focused on one tier only at the start. Smallholder.

We need 100 Smallholders. That's the number that unlocks this next farm.

We'll release places in batches of twenty. The earliest joiners receive the most.

THE LEGACY OF AUTONOMY

What a Smallholder actually becomes.

The Smallholder is the deepest form of belonging we offer. But it doesn't ask you to step into it all at once, or ever. It's simply a door, left open to you.

Some Smallholders will walk right through it. Move their work to the land. Raise children on it. Live into the daily rhythm of the farm. Others will use it differently. A weekend. A week. A quiet retreat from a world that's asking too much. A private corner of a co-owned farm they know is holding them, whether they're there or not.

Both are right. This isn't a commitment to a particular life. It's a stake in a place, and the freedom to use that stake however it calls you.

As Smallholder, you hold:

• A 1,350m² land stake in your name, on a co-owned estate, in perpetuity
• Priority residency rights, if and when living on the land calls you
• Enterprise rights, if and when building something on the farm calls you. A studio. A workshop. A food venture. A craft. A practice. The right sits there, whether it's used or not
• A private serviced garden, tended by the farm team to your own seasonal plan, with your own flock of hens
• Seven-day access to the land, for your immediate family and the generations that follow
• A multi-generational estate to pass down, build a family rhythm around, shape over time into something that outlasts them

What the tier offers isn't a new life imposed. It's a new shape a life can take. As much or as little as it's called to. 

For the first twenty, something more.

The first twenty Smallholders of the next farm receive something we're working to confirm in final form, and that we want to share with you now because the opportunity is genuinely unrepeatable.

A private garden, allocated to you personally, and within it, space for a tiny home of your own. Your own ground. Your own small dwelling on it. A permanent base from which to live into the life of the farm, or a bolthole you can retreat to any day, any time, when you need to step out of the world and back into the land.

This is a founding privilege. It exists only for the first twenty. It won't come round again.

How it works.

A Smallholder Founding Membership is a £50,000 total commitment.

To secure your place, you make a 10% Signal Prepayment of £5,000. That's the signal to us, to the landowners, and to yourself that you're part of what we're building.

The remaining £45,000 is paid over a 60-month Farm Build Plan of £750 a month, starting from the date we formally complete on the land. On acquisition, your shares in the estate's landholding company are allotted, and every right and benefit of Founding Membership begins.

The order of release.

Before the Smallholder places open to anyone new, our current Founding Members come first.

Our immediate priority right now is finalising the share issuance for all of our existing Founding Members. Making our first land ownership formal. That work is nearly complete, and it takes precedence over everything else. Because you made the commitment first, and we want the paperwork to catch up to the reality of what you've built with us.

Once the share issuance is in motion, we'll release this next Smallholder opportunity to our existing Good Life and Smallholder Founding Members first. If you're already with us at either of those tiers, you'll have the chance to move up or add a place before anyone else is approached.

Then, and only then, we open to the waiting list.

Join the waitlist.

If you'd like to be among the first to hear when the next 20 Smallholder places open, you can join the waiting list here:

 Join the Smallholder waitlist

 The road to the next farm.

There's been a lot happening quietly behind all of this. Designing the Operating System that lets regional farms across the country join the network without us owning every acre. A Member Fund that returns a share of trading revenue to you each year. The legal scaffolding underneath all of it. These are the foundations the next farm sits on.

We'll share the full detail soon with everyone who wants it.

Thank you for being part of this.

With warmth and radical responsibility,

Keivor