Welcome, First Founders - and the Road Ahead

A warm welcome to everyone who joined as a Founding Member in October. You’re now part of the first cohort - the people who believed early, invested to launch the pilot, and helped turn a field and a sketch into a working farm. Your support matters more than we can say. It has been three demanding years. Thank you to our earliest members for the patience and steady faith while we laid foundations through changing weather, planning hurdles, and the realities of farming at a high standard.

We’re now moving faster. Joining forces with Crops Not Shops is unlocking capacity: we hold the farming, food production, and formal structure; they focus on social impact and community activation. Together we can deliver more of what you joined for - sovereign food and a living culture around it.

Next, we’ll channel the final Founding Member capital into finishing the build on the first farm and refining our farming processes - especially livestock. As you know, running chickens, cows, and sheep at very small scale makes consistent supply hard: flocks and herds need time to mature, pasture needs rest, processing slots are finite, and whole-animal rhythms don’t match custom orders week to week. To protect reliability while our own enterprises grow at the speed of nature, we’re building transparent partnerships with aligned farms. You’ll always see what’s ours and what’s sourced, and our standards won’t move: soil-first, herbal pastures and exceptional welfare.

We’re also improving how we meet you online. A more integrated members’ portal is in development so you can connect with each other, find calls and gatherings, and manage your membership without friction. On land, we continue conversations with owners in the South East to secure our next estate. Our current focus is a 250-acre farm as the next step toward 1,000 acres in the region. At that scale we can provide a complete year-round food supply—veg, eggs, milk, meat, honey—for 1,000–1,500 families, with resilience built in. From those 1,000 acres, our first Sovereign Village takes root: food at the foundation; homes without speculation and community life that lasts.

We know members come for different reasons. Some of you want to know the cow your milk comes from. Some simply want a trusted supply, full stop. Others are here to build community and pass on skills. Our plan is built to hold all three. We will keep producing more of our own food, add partner capacity where useful, and keep the doors open - to the land, to learning, and to each other.

It’s an exciting turn. The early challenges of bringing something new into being are easing. Another challenge is now clear: we need help coordinating the growing community. Membership has doubled to around 500 this year, and we want every person to feel welcomed, informed, and included. If you’d like to step into a Community Coordination role, and, alongside that, support me (Keivor) with weekly scheduling and follow-through - please reply with a short note about your experience and availability. This work matters. It keeps the whole vision moving.

Thank you for the energy, the patience, and the belief. We’ll keep building - carefully, transparently, and together.