where this is going
A community, holding
farms across the country.
Two people and fifteen acres in Sussex, growing into a national network of farms held by the people who eat from them. One village, spread across the country.
the long arc
One field today. A whole country in time.
We're at the very beginning of something we mean to outlast us. This is the road ahead, and we intend to walk every mile of it.
100ac
this year
where it begins, in Sussex
1,000ac
this decade
a community putting down roots
100,000ac
by 2050
a country fed from land it holds
Held by many. Kept for good.
the Streat Garden, where the work began
the premise
Britain's food system has stopped
feeding us properly.
Most of the food we eat is grown for shelf life, not nourishment, on land worked for yield, not health, by people paid too little to keep going. We're left with a weekly shop that technically counts as food, and a quiet sense that something has been lost.
You're right to feel it.
And for most of us there's no way back. You can't buy a farm, or quit your life to learn to grow. Even better food doesn't fix it, because the problem isn't really food. It's the distance that's opened up between people, the land that feeds them, and each other.
We started My Little Farm to close the distance between farmer, food and household. The way we do it is simple: the people who eat from the farm are the people who hold it.
the ancient future
Many little farms,
one sovereign village.
A village doesn't have to be one place on a map. It can be a community spread across the country: families everywhere, each near a little farm they hold and eat from, all part of the same village.
We call it the ancient future. The closeness, the food you can trust, the belonging our grandparents knew, rebuilt for the way we live now. Not a step backward, but a better way to live forward.
The sovereign village isn't one place you move to. It's a country quietly rejoining itself to its food.
the people
Families, not consumers
Our aim is a hundred thousand families, each anchored to real food from land they hold in common. Not customers of a food system, but custodians of one.
the places
Villages, not just farms
In time, each farm grows into more than a field: gardens and gatherings, forest schools for the children, workshops in the old crafts, and for some, one day, a place to live and work.
the protection
Land in perpetuity
Every farm held in community ownership and kept in trust, so the land can never be sold from under the people again. Kept whole for the generations after us.
It begins with one farm, and one family at a time. The village grows by the household.
We've begun in Sussex, but we'll be bringing the village to life across the country.
what we believe
The way we go about this matters
as much as what we build.
You can do this kind of work from fear or from joy. From collapse-thinking or from care. From extractive urgency or from patient, committed presence. The results look completely different, and so does the path of getting there. We've chosen the second in every case.
the spirit
Care, not fear
We don't approach this work from collapse or panic. We choose joy, responsibility, and patience. The world already has enough doomcasting, we'd rather build something good and let that speak.
the pace
Generations, not quarters
We think in decades because the land does. Regenerating soil takes years. Building a community takes longer. A farm that's here in fifty years is worth more than ten that aren't.
the bond
Relationships, not shortcuts
We know most members by name. We prefer to speak before we sell, and to know who's at our table. A farm run on relationships behaves differently from one run on transactions, and that difference is the whole point.
the honesty
In public, in progress
We're not a finished solution. We're a farm still being built, a community still forming, a system still proving itself. We say so on the website. Members are welcome to see the work in progress, not just the finished photographs.
the Streat Garden, on the northern face of the South Downs
The model works because the people who eat from the farm are the same people whose names are on it. The incentives run in one direction only: toward care.
The structures behind all this, how the farms are held, how the economics work, how this scales, live on the horizon page.
it takes more than members
The land, and the people
who work it.
A movement like this needs more than people to eat from the farms. It needs skilled hands to grow on the land, and people with land to bring into it. However you want to be part of this, it begins the same way.
for land workers
Farm land you don't have to own
If you're a grower, farmer or smallholder held back only by the price of land, this is a way in. Work community-owned farms on a secure footing, growing regeneratively, with a whole community behind you instead of a bank. The skill is yours. The land is ours together.
for land owners
Land kept as land, for good
If you hold land you want protected, farmed well and kept whole rather than sold off or built on, we can bring it into community stewardship. Regenerated, opened to a community, and held in trust so it stays a farm long after any of us. A legacy, not a sale.
Member, grower or landholder, every path in begins the same way.
an honest invitation
This vision doesn't happen without
people choosing to step in.
Not as spectators. Not as customers. As members willing to share responsibility for the future they want to see. If this resonates, if you feel the pull toward something slower, sturdier and more human, you're warmly invited to walk with us.