Help Shape Our Food Path

First off, welcome to all the new members who’ve joined in the past couple of weeks, we’re glad you’re here. This is our weekly Members’ Farm Update: a calm check-in from the land with what’s growing, what we’re learning, and where we need your voice.

Our first duty is food sovereignty and security for member families. That means producing to the highest possible standards, with no synthetic chemicals, no routine pharmaceuticals; soil-first; herbal pastures; exceptional welfare; honouring the whole animal.

The challenge (plainly): 

We're producing at very small scale for a closed community. Weekly member order quantities fluctuate significantly. Whole-animal butchery yields many different cuts in tiny quantities. Each cut requires its own product page, yet we might only have five of a given cut in any week. This creates a long list of products with minimal stock, frequent sell-outs, and heavy administrative burden. All while we're striving to keep waste near zero and maintain exceptionally high standards.

We want to solve this without lowering standards. We see two paths (and a hybrid). Please help us choose.

Option A — Weekly Box Subscription (our produce only)

We focus entirely on food from our own farm. To make it work, we'll need to shift fully to a weekly weekly box subscription.

• Upside: strongest sovereignty and security; predictable planning; less waste; deepest quality control.
• Trade-off: less week-to-week flexibility.

Option B — Curated Shop (aligned partner farms)

We expand the shop (think Pipers Farm / Gazegill approach) and partner with organic/biodynamic farms we trust.

• Upside: more variety; more flexibility.
• Trade-off: very few farms match our stance on no routine pharmaceuticals; careful curation required, reduced traceability.

Option C — Hybrid

A weekly box for members who want the highest quality food direct from our farm, plus a curated shop supplied by partner farms for those that want customised and flexible ordering.

• Upside: choice + resilience.
• Trade-off: more operational complexity; we’ll need a firm base of box subscribers.

Whatever we choose, the core stays: member-owned, regenerative farming with transparency. Our mission is to make smallholding ownership and sovereign, nutrient-dense food accessible to as many families as possible.

Help guide our next phase of inventory management by letting us know what you want.

Take the 60 second survey here.