we are here
15
acres
Streat Garden,
the proof.
Our first farm, in Sussex. Fifteen acres that earned the model β living soil, fed households, a working community. Everything else stands on this.
our first farm
Streat Garden, near Lewes
Fifteen acres of South Downs, tended by hand since 2020, and slowly becoming a sanctuary.
the land
A living place, unfolding
Oak woodlands at the edges and fields shaped by generations of hands. Streat Garden is a small piece of protected South Downs β fifteen acres, quiet under big Sussex skies.
On any given day you'll find no-dig vegetable beds in their seasonal work, heritage hens ranging through the orchard, a young forest garden settling into itself, and the steady rhythm of a regenerative smallholding β planting, tending, harvesting, pausing.
It is not finished. It is, deliberately, always becoming. Orchards take years before they fruit. Ponds take seasons to find their ecology. A forest garden is the work of decades. What's here now is what we've built in five years. What's coming is the patient labour of a lifetime.
how we got here
It started with a walk.
In the summer of 2020, like many, the pandemic crystallised something we'd been feeling for years β a quiet unease about the direction of things, and our own place in them.
We kept talking about solutions on long lockdown walks through the city. By autumn, we had sold the idea of certainty and bought fifteen acres of land in the South Downs instead. No farming experience. No grand plan. Just a determination to take back control of how we lived and ate, and a suspicion that others were feeling the same pull.
The first year was humbling. We learned by doing β how to grow from seed, how to tend soil, how to read the land's rhythms. We also hit the reality of smallholding life: it's relentless, expensive, and isolating. Most people who dream of this never get here, and most who do eventually burn out.
So we asked a different question. What if the smallholding was co-owned? What if you could have the food, the connection, and the legacy without the 4am milking or the impossible capital outlay? What if one farm served a hundred households, and a hundred farms served a hundred thousand?
That question became My Little Farm. Our first pioneering founders made the answer possible. The land has become productive. The community is real. The blueprint is working.
And the story is still being written.
the farm, in detail
A small farm doing real work.
Fifteen acres in the South Downs, in active production since 2020. Five years of careful building, five seasons of food going out to households, a small community of Founders quietly anchored around it.
15
acres of South Downs
250
founding households
5,000
trees planted
1
acre of market gardens
the working farm
A market garden, and a flock of laying hens.
An acre of no-dig vegetable beds, worked by hand through the seasons. Heritage hens ranging through the orchard, laying year-round. Heritage cattle on the pasture in summer.
The food the farm sends out each week, grown deliberately for the households who'll eat it.
the long-arc layer
An orchard, and a forest garden ripening in time.
Five thousand trees in the ground. Apple and pear, plum and quince, threading the edges. A young forest garden taking root β fruiting shrubs, perennial vegetables, nut trees still finding their feet.
The slowest part of the farm, and the part that will give back the longest.
the retreat layer
A members' cabin, and the first private gardens.
A small cabin, set quietly into the land, held for Founder retreats and member stays. Around it, the first private gardens β designed with founding members and tended by the team in their absence.
The place to come back to, to grow in, to bring family and friends.
the community layer
A farm shop, and a Saturday community.
Doors open every Saturday from late morning. The pop-up farm shop fills with vegetables, eggs and bread; workshops run through the day β Qigong, foraging walks, family forage and sauna, herbal medicine, fermentation.
People who'd never meet in a city are meeting on a farm. Week by week, the Streat Garden becomes a hub of community for the wider area.
the journey
Where Streat Garden sits in the larger arc.
From fifteen acres to a thousand. Not in a single stroke. Field by field, and each earned by the last.
Streat Garden,
the next step
100
acres
Peppers Farm Estate,
the next chapter.
A hundred acres of Sussex, secured and waiting on a hundred Smallholders. The working heart of what comes next. This is what's being built now.
the horizon
1,000
acres
One Thousand Acres,
over time.
A thousand households, co-owning the land, receiving its food, and passing their stake forward. Built across the decades ahead, not demanded in one.
Every step earns the next. Streat Garden earned the right to take on a hundred acres. A hundred acres will earn the right to take on the next hundred.
what's becoming
A first little farm, becoming richer in time.
Fifteen acres tended deeply. A sanctuary for the households who first believed in it.
Streat Garden was never going to scale into something else. It was always going to deepen into what it is. A small regenerative farm, fifteen acres of South Downs, tended by hand and by season, slowly becoming the sanctuary it was built to be.
The market garden grows fuller each year β more beds, more variety, more food for the households who eat from it. The laying hens range through the orchard, year after year, their flocks settling and steadying. The forest garden, still young, is beginning to fruit β and over the next decade will reach toward the abundance it was planted for. Slow gains, compounding quietly.
Held within the farm, the first private member gardens. Spaces designed with their founding members and tended by the team in their absence β places to retreat to, to grow in, to bring family and friends. A few square metres of soil that the member knows by name, and that knows them back.
It's the part of the model that closes the distance most completely. Not just food from a farm you support, but a patch of the farm itself β yours to walk, yours to plant, yours to come back to. The deepest layer of what My Little Farm was built to offer.
And every Saturday, the farm opens its doors. The pop-up farm shop fills with vegetables, eggs and bread. Workshops run through the morning β Qigong, foraging walks, family forage and sauna, herbal medicine, fermentation. People who'd never meet in a city are meeting on a farm. The Streat Garden becomes, week by week, a hub of community for the wider area β and for the members and households who hold a stake in it.
The patient labour of a lifetime. Worth it, we think, for what it leaves behind.
founding membership at the Streat Garden
Co-ownership of our first little farm.
Whether you joined at the start or you're considering joining now, founding membership means the same thing β a real, recorded stake in the Streat Garden, on terms held from the pioneer cohort onwards.
what founding membership gives
Four things, held for life.
a real stake
Land in your name.
Your stake β from 50mΒ² to 1,350mΒ² depending on your tier β is recorded on the Community Land Registry, alongside the other Founders. Yours, named, for as long as you hold it.
dual-sanctuary rights
Two places, not one.
Your stake gives you access to both the Streat Garden and the 1,000-acre Estate as it comes online. The original sanctuary deepens; the new one emerges. Yours to walk in both.
annual returns
Farm Credits each year.
A share of the farm's annual trading revenue, paid as Farm Credits to spend on food, workshops, and stays. Plus a lifetime shop discount on everything from the farm.
permanent legacy
Inheritable, and held.
Your stake is inheritable, transferable, and recorded. It can be passed to family, transferred to another household, or held for generations. The pioneer terms are never reissued.
two ways forward
Where do you stand?
Places open through the founding cohort as some pioneers step back. The same mechanism lets existing Founders pass their place to the next household ready to step in.
for new households
Secure a place.
Choose your tier from the three below. Pay in full or spread over five months. Original pioneer pricing, with a 25% discount that won't be offered again.
See the three tiers βfor existing Founders
List your space.
If life has shifted and you'd rather pass your place to a household on the interest list, the Membership Exchange is how that conversation begins.
Begin the conversation βthree tiers, three stakes
Choose your tier.
6 of 200 places open
Co-owning Founder
Permanent Registry standing and a 50mΒ² stake in the Streat Garden.
Founding Membership
Β£3,300 Β£2,475
25% pioneer discount included
Or spread the cost over 5 months at Β£495/month.
50mΒ² in the Community Land Registry
what you receive
- Permanent Land Registry status in your name
- 50mΒ² regenerative land stake, certified
- 10% lifetime shop discount
- Priority access to future estates as they come online
- Dual-sanctuary rights β Streat Garden and the next Estate
3 of 30 places open
Good Life Founder
A deeper stake, 7-day access to the Streat Garden, and housing standing at the Estate.
Founding Membership
Β£25,000 Β£18,750
25% pioneer discount included
Or spread the cost over 5 months at Β£3,750/month.
600mΒ² in the Community Land Registry
what you receive
- Exclusive 7-day access to the 15-acre Streat Garden
- 600mΒ² regenerative stake, certified
- Housing standing equal with Smallholders at the Estate
- 7-day access to the full Estate as it comes online
- Early-bird rights to future national estates
1 of 20 places open
Smallholder Founder
A private serviced garden, permanent residency rights at the Estate, and food for life.
Founding Membership
Β£50,000 Β£37,500
25% pioneer discount included
Or spread the cost over 5 months at Β£7,500/month.
1,350mΒ² in the Community Land Registry
what you receive
- Free vegetables & eggs for life
- 1,350mΒ² stake with full enterprise & incubation rights
- Private serviced garden and heritage hens in the Streat Garden
- Permanent residency rights within the Estate village
- Highest-priority allocation in times of scarcity
the path in
How Founding Membership happens.
Whether you pay in full, spread it over five months, or book a call first β nothing here is automated. Every step is a real conversation with the team.
one
Secure your place
Choose your tier and either pay in full or start a 5-month plan at checkout. Either way, your place is held in your name from day one.
two
A welcome conversation
A call with Keivor or Laure to walk you through the land, introduce you to the community, and answer anything you'd like to understand more deeply.
three
Full access from day one
Your Registry record, sanctuary rights, and community access begin immediately. If you chose the 5-month plan, payments continue on the same date each month.
honest answers
Questions worth asking.
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Am I buying a specific, fenced plot of land?
No. Your stake is a share in the whole farm, recorded on the Community Land Registry. The mΒ² figure shows the scale of your stake β not a patch of ground with your name on it. Regenerative farms work as integrated ecosystems; you own a meaningful piece of the whole, not a parcel in isolation.
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What if my circumstances change?
Founding Memberships are transferable to another household. When you want to release your stake, we help arrange the transfer to someone on the interest list. You recover your investment from the incoming member at the then-current price. This is precisely how many current places have opened.
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What happens to my stake when the 1,000-acre Estate launches?
Founding stakes carry dual-sanctuary rights. You keep everything you have at the Streat Garden β permanent access to the original 15 acres β and you gain your tier's rights at the Estate as it comes online. The Streat Garden remains the original protected sanctuary, not an obsolete first chapter.
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What protects the land from being sold or built over in future?
The land is held in a protected trust structure with an asset lock in place. The farmland cannot be sold for speculative gain or converted to non-agricultural use. Members are custodians, not landlords β and the protections are designed to hold across generations, not just the lifetime of the current business.
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When do I become a Founding Member?
From day one. Your Registry record, sanctuary rights, community access, and tier benefits all begin the moment your first payment goes through β whether that's the full amount or the first instalment of a 5-month plan. There's no waiting period, no "pending" status, and no conditional access. You're in.
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How does the 5-month payment plan work?
Simple. Your first payment today, then four more on the same date each month until the plan completes. The total is the same as paying in full β just spread across five equal instalments. No interest, no fees, no surprises.
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What if I can't continue the payment plan?
Life moves. If you need to step back before the plan completes, your payments convert into Stewardship credit β applied against your ongoing membership at whatever tier suits. You don't lose what you've paid; it becomes food, community, and time on the land, rather than a Founding stake. We'd rather honour where you are than hold you to something that no longer fits.
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Can I pay the full amount instead of using the plan?
Yes. The checkout page lets you choose β pay in full or start a 5-month plan. Both secure your place immediately and both give you full Founding Member status from day one. The welcome conversation with the team follows either way.
still thinking?
The right questions deserve a real answer.
If you'd rather talk before anything else, a call with Keivor or Laure is the best next step. No pressure, no pitch β just an honest conversation about whether this is the right fit for your household.
Book a call βOr write to us directly at [email protected].