where this is going
A community of households, holding farms across the country.
My Little Farm started with two people and fifteen acres in Sussex. What we're building from here is bigger β our own Estates, a national network of independent farmers, and the community that holds them all together.
three directions, one project
What we're working toward.
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 leads. Three directions, 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 more than a farm β it's a community hub, where households visit on Saturdays, gather for harvest feasts, walk the woodland, and one day stay overnight.
second
A national network of independent farmers.
Regenerative farmers across the country β people already farming, people learning how, and people who want to start. We're building the infrastructure that turns each one into a community hub: a customer base, a fair share of every sale, and a network of households that show up.
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.
the model we're building
A different shape for the food economy.
A regenerative farmer in the West Country needs working capital, fair prices, and the assurance that the land they're tending 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 exists to be 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 β and the part we're building piece by piece.
in a supermarket supply chain
9%
A typical farmer keeps as little as 9 pence of every pound. The rest is absorbed by buyers, processors, distributors, and retailers between the field and the plate.
in the model we're building
90%
A farmer keeps 80% of every sale β and where they own their own land, the landowner's share goes to them too. Up to 90 pence of every pound, by structure, on every transaction.
Nine per cent. Ninety per cent. The inversion is the point.
the architecture we're writing in
Where every pound will go.
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 will be fixed and contractual β written into every farmer's licence and every member's agreement. No buyer's margin. No negotiated wholesale price. No annual contract review. Every transaction will distribute automatically at the moment a member pays, with no invoices and no delays in between.
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 will be 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 will split 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 will be 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 will 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.
an invitation, to farmers
If you're farming, learning, or about to begin.
When we started in 2020, we didn't know how to grow, how to keep hens, how to compost. We learnt. We had fifteen acres, two pairs of hands, and the conviction that a different food economy was possible. We also had no community of households waiting to eat what we'd grow, no playbook for how a small farm survives, and no one to call when things went wrong.
The network we're building is for the people we wish had been there for us then. Established regenerative farmers ready to escape the supermarket supply chain. New growers learning their craft on someone else's land. People without land yet, but with skill, will, and a clear sense of the life they want to build. If any of that sounds like you, we'd like to know.
register your interest
Tell us where you are on the path.
We're building the partner-farmer programme deliberately and slowly. No pitch. Just a conversation about what you're doing and what we might build together.
Get in touch βthe long arc
Fifteen acres, then a thousand, then a hundred farms.
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 is being 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. The first partner farms joining the network 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.