ONLY 100 WILL EVER HOLD THIS STAKE
Smallholder Founding Membership
The deepest of only one hundred founding stakes: a private garden, three hens of your own, and first claim on a home, on a farm already built and waiting. Your personal trusted food source without the price of buying a farm, or the labour of running one.
what Smallholder Founding Membership is
Almost everyone carries the same quiet dream: a place in the country that is truly theirs. Smallholder Founding Membership hands you that dream whole. The largest stake in a real working farm, the run of all hundred acres seven days a week, a private garden planted to your taste, three hens of your own in the shared flock, and first claim on a home as the estate grows. All of it without the price of buying a farm, the work of running one, or leaving the life you've built.
the run of the land
Come and go as you please, every day of the week: the pasture, the woods, the orchard and the one-acre lake, all of it open to you. Not a booked visit, but a place you belong, to walk, to work, or simply to be, whenever the mood takes you.
your garden
The largest plot on the farm, shaped around what you love to grow and cared for by the team between your visits. You arrive to a garden in full season, not a list of jobs waiting.
your hens
Part of the communal flock, but yours by name. Eggs warm from the nest when you come down, and looked after by the farm every day you're not there.
your home, in time
As the estate grows, homes on the land open to its founders, and Smallholders are first in line. The chance to live the good life on a farm you already co-own, when the moment is right for you.
your legacy
The deepest founding stake, recorded in your name and held in trust so it can never be sold. A place that stays in the family, long after the rest of the noise has passed.
The run of a hundred acres, a garden, a flock, a home and a legacy. The whole of the dream, without the price of a farm or the labour of running one.
Only 100 Smallholder places, ever · first in line for a home
This intake closes 15th August. Your stake is recorded before you pay, and is 100% returnable as Farm Credit.
what's yours
Smallholder isn't a donation, it's co-ownership of a working farm that keeps giving back: real food on the table, Farm Tokens to spend each year, a standing discount, and the freedom to step back in any season you need to. It holds everything in every tier below it, and adds what only Smallholders have.
A private forest garden
Your own 150m² garden within the estate, planted to your taste, and tended by the farm team while you're away.
First option on a home
Priority on the homes the estate creates as it grows, the chance, one day, to live on the very land you helped secure.
Free veg & eggs, every week
A complimentary weekly box of seasonal vegetables and a dozen eggs. Collected on-farm or delivered to your door.
and everything a working farm gives back
7 days
every week
Come and go across the hundred acres as often as you like: the pasture, the woods, the gardens and the lake.
Yearly
to spend
A yearly allocation of Farm Tokens to spend on food, events and stays across the farm and the wider network, renewed annually.
20% off
always on
Twenty percent off everything from the farm shop and the wider network, for as long as your membership is held.
£2,700
per leased year
In a year you can't visit, pass your access to a vetted Steward and receive £225 a month in Farm Tokens.
And belonging for your whole household, children included: seasonal gatherings, hands-on participation days, and a real voice in shaping the estate.
All of it, for one of only 100 stakes
This intake closes 15th August · your place is recorded before you pay.
Peppers Farm
A hundred acres of Sussex, held by the same family for thirty-five years. The land, the buildings, the infrastructure are all already here. We're not starting from scratch. We're stepping into something whole.
100
acres of freehold land
5
dwellings on the estate
16k
sq ft of barns & outbuildings
1
acre fishing lake
a place to gather
We'll open it to members for stays, retreats, co-working and the eight Celtic gatherings that mark our year. A home, shared.
infrastructure, ready
We'll bring this into immediate use as the farm shop and café, food processing, member events, and the gathering space that lets the estate hold a community without losing its quiet.
the land itself
We'll farm it regeneratively from the first season. Cattle through summer, sheep through winter, the market garden producing weekly food for the network. Soil left more alive than we found it, year on year.
space for stillness
We'll keep the wild parts wild. Member gardens, walking paths, and gathering circles will sit alongside the working farm, never on top of it. Peppers will be a place to disappear into when you need to, and to find each other in when you're ready.
Every one of these spaces becomes part of how the community lives, gathers, and grows together.
One of only 100 stakes in a farm that already exists
This intake closes 15th August · your place is recorded before you pay.
from the creators of My Little Farm
A few years ago, we set out to answer a single, fundamental question: what would it look like if families could truly own the source of their life?
Not just buy from it, but own it.
We began with fifteen acres in Sussex and a small community who believed a simple truth: that land should be held in trust, for food, for nature, and for the generations who follow us. Together we proved it. We restored soil, fed households, and built something real.
The pilot was never the destination. It was always the beginning.
Peppers is the next step, and it is already whole: a hundred-acre Sussex estate, the land, the barns, the farmhouse and the lake all here and waiting, ready to feed a hundred households for generations. We are not raising a farm from nothing. We are opening one, to exactly one hundred founding families.
This is your invitation to be one of them. Not a supporter, but a co-owner of the estate itself, with the deepest founding stake: your own garden, first claim on a home, and a place held in trust for those who come after you.
There will only ever be one hundred. Once they are held, they are held for good.
With warmth and determination,
Keivor & Laure
the journey from here
Founding a farm happens in three phases. The land is secured under a phased purchase, and the founding hundred are coming together now, released in small intakes. Here's where we stand, and what comes next.
This is the phase we're in now. The land is secured under a phased purchase, and the founding hundred are being gathered, in small intakes, one family at a time. As each intake fills, the next opens, and the farm moves to its next stage of building. There will only ever be one hundred.
Over the following years, the farm is designed and established, and every founder is warmly invited to be part of it, as much or as little as they like. Come to the gatherings on the land, share the ideas that shape the market garden, the orchards and the gathering spaces, and lend a hand in the making when you wish. There is no obligation to build or to labour. Your place is yours whether you help shape every season or simply follow the journey and visit when you can.
Five years on, the farm stands, established, productive, and held in trust so it can never be sold from under the community. Your name is among its founders, recorded for good: a legacy you can hand to your children, and theirs.
Places open now in the current intake
This intake closes 15th August · your place is recorded before you pay.
your founding stake
The deepest founding stake in Peppers, and one of only one hundred that will ever exist. Secure your space today, and we take the next step together.
Smallholder Founding Membership
1,350m² · the deepest stake
£750per month, for 60 months
£5,000 signal prepayment to begin · £50,000 in all
A home, a garden and a legacy that would cost millions to own outright, yours for a founding stake held across five years.
One of only 100 stakes, ever · this intake closes 15th August. Your place is recorded before you pay, and is 100% returnable as Farm Tokens.
the founders' guarantee
A founding stake is a serious step, so we've built it to carry as little risk as a step like this can.
a stake before your money
We won't ask for the balance until your stake is recorded in your name and the land is held, protected so it can never be sold or developed. Your place is secured before your money is.
zero-loss entry
The signal prepayment isn't a fee. If the vision doesn't proceed, 100% of your contribution returns as Farm Tokens to spend on food. You're never out of pocket.
pace with progress
Capital is deployed against real progress on the ground. You see what your contribution has built, as it's built, never before.
Not ready for the deepest stake? There are smaller ways to co-own Peppers. Talk to us →
your stake
Your Smallholder stake has two parts: a notional share of the entire hundred-acre farm, and a defined private garden that is yours alone. Both are recorded in your name, and both are held within one protective trust.
1,350m²
Your share of the whole
A notional stake in the entire farm: the land, the barns, the pasture and the lake. Not a plot you fence off, but a recorded share of all of it, and the largest any founder holds.
~150m²
Your own garden
Within the estate, a defined garden that is yours alone: planted to your taste and tended by the team between your visits. The one corner of the farm kept just for you.
and held safe, for good
The trust holds the land
Held in trust so the estate can never be sold from under the community or carved up for development.
Recorded in your name
A recognised, recorded stake, held in your name and passed to whomever you choose.
The farm stays a farm
The whole estate is farmed and shared; your square metres are a share of the whole.
beyond Peppers
Founding Peppers isn't joining a single farm, it's founding the flagship of a whole region. Peppers has the land, the barns and the infrastructure to anchor and supply a network of smaller community farms around it. It can grow onto the land immediately surrounding it, and in time we'll bring up to twenty little farms into community ownership across Sussex, each held by the people who eat from it. Your founding stake is recorded once, and travels with the region as it grows.
Peppers at the centre, with twenty little farms around it. Streat Garden is the first, and it's open now. Each new farm is seeded and supplied by the flagship, so no community starts from scratch.
Peppers is the flagship. Its land and infrastructure, the barns, the processing, the growing and the distribution, become the backbone that supplies the smaller farms around it. As Peppers grows onto the land immediately surrounding it, so does what the whole region can grow, share and reach.
Recorded once, held for good
Your founding stake is recorded in your name and held in the trust, transferable and inheritable. It doesn't reset as the region grows, it stays yours.
Your access widens
As each new Sussex farm opens, your membership opens with it: more land to walk, more harvests, more gatherings, all part of what you already hold.
First in line, and a say
You help decide where we build next, and you're first through the gate when a farm opens near you.
Beyond Sussex, a network
Sussex is the first region. In time the same model becomes a national network of community-owned farms, and your place belongs to it.
You are not founding one farm. You are founding the flagship of a region, up to twenty little farms held in common across Sussex, and in time a network beyond it, held by the people who eat from it.
Found the flagship · one of only 100, ever
This intake closes 15th August · your place is recorded before you pay.
compare the tiers
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| What's included | Co-owning | Real Food | Good Life | Smallholder |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stake — co-ownership of the working farm (recorded m², a vote, inheritable) | ||||
| Come — seasonal gatherings + member day-visits | ||||
| Take part — sowing, harvest, lambing, workshops, forest school | ||||
| Welcome — a founder's welcome reward in Farm Tokens | ||||
| Member discount — off everything from the farm shop | 10% | 20% | 20% | 20% |
| Belong — whole household incl. children + guest passes | ||||
| Food security — allocated Stewardship space | – | |||
| Full access to the estate — 7-day, with complimentary camping | – | – | ||
| A private forest garden — 1,350m², designed and tended for you | – | – | – | |
| Three hens of your own — yours by name in the shared flock | – | – | – | |
| Free veg & eggs, every week — a complimentary box, on-farm or delivered | – | – | – | |
| First claim on a home — priority as the estate grows | – | – | – | |
| Land Stake | 50m² | 150m² | 600m² | 1,350m² |
| Signal Prepaymentto secure your place | £500 | £1,000 | £2,500 | £5,000 |
| 60 Month Payment Planbegins once land is secured | £75/mo | £150/mo | £375/mo | £750/mo |
the founding tiers
Smallholder is open now. The lighter tiers open in later intakes, but you don't have to wait: reserve your place today with only the signal prepayment, and lock your tier at today's terms.
the founders' welcome
Reserve now, and you're one of the first. Every founder who reserves a place is invited to a founders-only Peppers welcome event on contract exchange, the first gathering on the land, before anyone else.
Co-owning
50m²
The heart of it. Co-own the farm and join the journey through gatherings and participation days.
£500signal, to reserve now
then £75/mo for 60 months
£5,000 in all
Reserve your spacePayment plan and full benefits begin at a later date, following contract exchange.
Real Food
150m²
Everything in Co-owning, with your family's food anchored to the land through a guaranteed harvest share.
£1,000signal, to reserve now
then £150/mo for 60 months
£10,000 in all
Reserve your spacePayment plan and full benefits begin at a later date, following contract exchange.
Good Life
600m²
Everything in Real Food, with full seven-day access to the estate and complimentary camping.
£2,500signal, to reserve now
then £375/mo for 60 months
£25,000 in all
Reserve your spacePayment plan and full benefits begin at a later date, following contract exchange.
Smallholder
1,350m²
Everything in Good Life, plus a private garden tended for you, and first claim on a home as the estate grows.
£5,000signal prepayment
then £750/mo for 60 months
£50,000 in all
Secure your spaceOpen now, and one of only one hundred.
Every founder co-owns the same farm; the only difference is how many square metres you hold. Your signal is fully returnable as Farm Tokens, so reserving carries no risk.
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for those who work the land
1 sponsored place among every 10 founders
Land workers are at the very heart of what we're building. For every nine founders who step in, a tenth place is held, fully sponsored, for a grower who will earn their stake by tending the land for the wider community. Ten such places among the founding hundred.
They hold the same stake, the same voice, the same welcome as every other founder. Because those who give their hands and their days to the land should own a piece of it, not just work it for someone else.
Every founder who steps in helps hold one of these open.
Secure your spacebefore you decide
A founding stake is a considered step. Here are the things people most want to understand before they take it.
Two things. A notional 1,350m² stake in the whole hundred-acre farm, the land, the barns, the pasture and the lake, recorded in your name as the largest founding stake. And a defined private garden of around 150m² within the estate that is yours alone, planted to your taste and tended by the team between your visits. The wider farm is worked and shared in common; your garden is the one corner kept just for you.
Straight away, in part. Your access to the farm and your 20% member discount begin from the day you join. The rest arrives as the estate comes to life: your garden once it's created, your hens once they're welcomed, your weekly box and Farm Tokens as the farm begins to produce. Streat Garden is open now, so there's a working farm to enjoy from the very start.
Yes. Your stake is recorded in your name, held in trust, and inheritable, you can pass it to whomever you choose. You can also transfer it: list your space during our annual transfer window, and My Little Farm has first option to buy it back. If we don't take it, you can nominate a replacement, or we'll advertise the space on your behalf.
You begin with a £5,000 signal prepayment, then £750 a month for 60 months, £50,000 in all. Your monthly payments begin only once the land is secured, so you never pay toward a farm that isn't happening.
Your £50,000 stake is paid across the five years, and then it's yours, in full. The only ongoing part is Stewardship at £150 a month, and it isn't really a cost: it's your everyday food budget redirected to the farm you now co-own, returning to you as food, stays and Farm Tokens. You're simply sourcing the food you'd buy anyway from your own land.
Life happens, and we've built for it. For a rough patch, we can pause your membership while you find your feet. And if you need to step away for good, your space goes into the transfer window, and once a new founder takes it, the contributions you've made are returned to you. You're never trapped in a commitment that no longer fits.
Your place is yours whether you come every week or not at all. And in any year you can't visit, you can lease your access to a vetted Steward and receive £225 a month in Farm Tokens, £2,700 across the year, to spend when you return.
No. There is no obligation to build or to labour. You're warmly invited to help shape the designs and join the making as much or as little as you like, or simply to follow the journey and visit when you can. Your place, and everything it holds, is yours either way.
Smallholders hold first claim on the homes the estate creates as it grows, ahead of every other founder. It's a genuine priority, the deepest of only a hundred stakes. Homes appear over time as the estate develops, so it is a first option when the moment comes, rather than a dated guarantee.
Your monthly payments begin only once the land is secured, and every contribution is deployed against real progress on the ground, never before. If the vision doesn't proceed, 100% of what you've paid returns to you as Farm Tokens to spend on food. You are never out of pocket.
No, and we're careful to say so. Founding Membership is co-ownership of a working farm and a way of life, a home, a garden, real food and a legacy, not a financial product and not a promise of return. Your stake is a real, protected asset held for good, but you should join for what it is, not for what it might one day be worth.
Because there will only ever be one hundred, and we care who holds them. Smallholder founders are people who share the values and genuinely want the mission to succeed, so the community is built of the right people. If you're unsure it's for you, come and walk the land or talk to us first, and because your signal prepayment is 100% returnable, no one is ever locked into a place that isn't right.
You can reserve a lighter founding tier instead. Co-owning, Real Food and the Good Life open a little later, but you can reserve your place now with your signal prepayment alone. Your monthly payments and full benefits begin after contract exchange, the point at which the farm purchase legally completes, and every founder who reserves or secures a place is invited to our founders' welcome at Peppers. As with Smallholder, your signal is 100% returnable, so reserving costs you nothing to hold your place while you decide.
Yes, and we'd love you to. Come and walk the land on one of our open days, meet the team and the community, and stand on the ground before you decide. Streat Garden is open now too, so you can see the model alive. A step like this shouldn't be taken on a screen alone.
Still one of only 100, ever
This intake closes 15th August · your signal is 100% returnable as Farm Tokens.
take your place
One of only one hundred, on a farm already built and waiting. A home, a garden and a legacy, held for good, and yours.
Only 100 Smallholder stakes, ever · this intake closes 15th August
Your signal is 100% returnable as Farm Tokens, and your monthly payments begin only once the land is secured.
Hear the vision, ask anything, and meet the founders.
