where this is going
A community of households, holding farms across the country.
My Little Farm isn't only a farm in Sussex. It's a way of doing this kind of work β and we're building it across our own Estates and a growing national network of independent farmers, together.
three directions, one project
What we're building, in plain terms.
If you've already read our story, you'll know how this began β two people, fifteen acres, and a question worth answering. This page is about where it's going. Three things, built in parallel, each making the others stronger.
first
Our own Estates.
Land we acquire, hold in protected trust, and tend ourselves. Fifteen acres in Sussex now, a hundred next. Each Estate is a working farm and the community anchor for the households who hold it.
second
A national network of independent farmers.
Regenerative farmers across the country, doing extraordinary work but locked in the same broken food system as everyone else. We're already in conversation with the first of them. Their farms stay theirs. What we add is a community, a customer base, and a fair share of every sale.
third
The community that holds it all.
A growing community of Stewards β households who choose to make their food spend a small act of stewardship. They feed themselves. They hold a stake in the land. And the platform their subscriptions sustain is what makes the whole network possible.
how the money moves
The model is simpler β and fairer β than you'd expect.
A regenerative farmer in the West Country needs working capital, fair prices, and the assurance that the land they're stewarding has somewhere to go after them. A household in the Midlands wants better food, a real connection to the land, and the quiet satisfaction of knowing their money is doing something they can stand behind.
My Little Farm is the connective tissue. The farmers grow good food and tend the land. The Stewards eat from it, hold a stake in it, and become the community that makes the farms possible. The mechanism that links them is the part most worth telling clearly.
in a supermarket supply chain
8β18%
A typical farmer keeps just 8 to 18 pence of every pound a customer pays for their food. The rest is absorbed by buyers, processors, distributors, and retailers in the chain between the field and the plate.
on the My Little Farm network
80β90%
A farmer keeps 80% of every sale. Add their landowner's share, and 90% of every pound stays with the farm β three to ten times more than the supermarket model. Fair pay, by structure, on every transaction.
Where every pound goes:
The farmer For growing, harvesting, producing the food.
80%
The landowner For the land β the foundation everything depends on. Where the farmer owns their own land, this share goes to them.
10%
The Member Fund A contractual share that flows back to the community as Farm Credits and member-voted reinvestment. More on this below.
5%
My Little Farm The platform fee β the brand, the member network, the operating system that makes the rest of it possible.
5%
The split is fixed and contractual. There is no buyer's margin, no negotiated wholesale price, no annual contract review. Every transaction distributes automatically at the moment a member pays β the farmer receives their share inside the OS payment cycle, the landowner receives theirs, the Member Fund accumulates, and we take our 5% to keep the platform running.
Five per cent for us. Ninety-five per cent for the farms, the land, and the community that holds them.
the member fund
Five per cent that flows back to the community.
A small but structural part of every transaction on the network is allocated to the My Little Farm Member Fund. It is not a profit share, not a dividend, not a goodwill discount we can withdraw. It is a contractual revenue right β written into the architecture of the platform β that returns a share of trading revenue to the people who make it possible.
The Fund splits in two. Half goes to members directly, as Farm Credits they can spend at the farms. Half is reinvested in the network β but the spending decisions belong to the community, not the company.
50%
to members directly
Farm Credits, distributed by land share.
Half of every Member Fund contribution is paid out as Farm Credits to active members each year β distributed in proportion to each member's accumulated land share. The deeper your stake, the larger your annual return. Credits can be spent on food, events, stays, and anything the network sells.
50%
to community reinvestment
A pot the community decides how to spend.
The other half is ring-fenced for member-facing infrastructure β the things that make the farms a place worth being. Members vote on where it goes. The Board can veto unworkable proposals but can't redirect this pool to general operations. It belongs to the community.
how the Fund grows with the network
At full scale β once the network reaches Β£4M+ in annual trading β the Fund returns at least Β£200,000 a year to members and community projects. Every year. By contract, not by promise.
the long arc
Fifteen acres, then a hundred farms, then a hundred thousand households.
We started small, in Sussex, on fifteen acres β because every meaningful network needs a place to begin. The 100-acre Estate is the next step. Beyond it: a constellation of partner farms across the country, our own Estates anchoring each region, and a community of households large enough to feed itself from its own land. The shape of it is already clear. The pace is the discipline.
15ac
today
The Streat Garden, Sussex.
The first farm. Where the model was built, tested, and proven. The blueprint for everything that follows.
1,000ac
this decade
A thousand acres, held in community.
The next 100-acre Estate this year. More Estates following, partner farms joining the network, the community deepening alongside.
100,000hh
by 2050
A hundred farms, a hundred thousand households.
A national network: 100 Estates and partner farms together, feeding 100,000 households of co-owners across the UK. The hundred-year project, not the next quarter's headline.
The scale is ambitious because the need is great. But we won't rush it. Each step earns the next.
an honest invitation
If this is the kind of work you'd want to be part of, here's how we do it.
The way in is Stewardship β the everyday membership that holds the farms. Most members start there, walk the path for a while, and discover what fits. If something deeper is calling you already, we'd rather speak properly than ask you to find it on a website.
