- My Little Farm began by securing farmland through community co-ownership, building a strong team of specialist regenerative farmers, and focusing on producing the highest quality food, free from synthetic chemicals and pharmaceuticals.
- Crops Not Shops began by working with land owners to enable communities to live and work together on the land, giving 50% of their harvest to people in need and building a reputation for soulful, well-organised events such as Sacred Earth Festival.
Where our paths meet is where the magic happens.
Crops Not Shops bring deep expertise in on-the-land community building, events, and governance. My Little Farm brings the scale, infrastructure, and production to feed a movement.
Together, we unite world-class farming with genuine community connection.
Crops Not Shops create more moments for our members to gather and shape our shared future, while My Little Farm provides the land, systems, and farming skill to amplify their mission.
By combining strengths, we’re building a powerful model for decentralised land ownership — capable of producing and distributing vast quantities of nourishing food for our members and those most in need.
This is the foundation of generational wealth for our communities. Not measured financially, but in our shared access to secure land, healthy soil, and the abundance we’ll share for generations.
The Vision
By 2035, Crops Not Shops and My Little Farm will have transformed the food and farming landscape in the UK by empowering over 100,000 families to reclaim their connection to the land, their communities, and true self-sufficiency.
These families will hold a stake in a new kind of farming system: regenerative, decentralised, and owned by the people. Together, we are catalysing the rise of 100 community-owned farms spanning 100,000 acres, creating a living, breathing network where ethical food production, ecological stewardship, and genuine community thrive side by side.
The Flagship: Our 1,000-Acre Sovereign Village
At the heart of this transformation will be our first Sovereign Village. 1,000 acres of co-owned farmland, serving as both a living prototype and a blueprint for a new way of life that regenerates the Earth while restoring the human spirit.
The Roadmap
Our focus for the next 24-36 months is finishing our flagship farm in East Sussex. We've provisionally secured a further 250 acres to expand our operations on to. Our objective is to finalise the purchase of these crucial land parcels and establish the necessary infrastructure to scale our farming systems, enabling us to feed 1,000 families weekly.
While establishing this foundation, we’ll host immersive community events to deepen our connection with the land and the food, and to collaboratively design the blueprint for our first Sovereign Village. Together, we’ll envision how it takes root, gather the resources, and recruit the dream team to bring it to life.
By the end of 2028, our goal is clear: Sovereign Village blueprint complete, team assembled, resources secured, and 1,000 acres of land ready — paving the way for the expansion from farm to fully-fledged village.
Comments (14)
I watched some of your most recent zoom meeting and I would like to buy in to the project next year. Meanwhile, I would like to find out more.
Very best, Juliet.
Both little farm and cns sounds wonderful! I visited cns in Glastonbury briefly 2 years ago and am amazed how it developed! I’m a sacred geometry artist, and would love to grow food, herbs and flowers in a more beautiful way, creating a healing garden etc. I have little savings, but by far not enough to buy land. It’s much more interesting and motivating in a communal setting in any case.
Yes please respond or / and send me news of projects and how I can get involved. Thank you! Karina
Not sure but hey it’s all good, I’m homeless anyway and don’t really have that much to do, I don’t know about how it works and I am in a different place quite far from your place, but if you want some help in the winter then maybe you could send me a email and I’ll give you a call, just saying how it is and soz for sounding bleak, anyway all the best and good luck with the project.
Will love to be involved and help where I can
Blessings 🌹
Hi!! I love you all! That you just don’t give up and keep going is remarkable. I came with my family to CNS 2 years ago which evoked some dreams. We are in Kent helping our friend at Tree of Life Veganics, an off grid low till, no dig food forest farm, learning tricks of the trade so to speak so are not far from Sussex. Fingers crossed we can afford to come and see you there soon. xx
Bright blessings one and all. I’ve know chay since he was empowering people to grow their own food in their gardens and share with thy neighbour. Watching the movement grow in Glastonbury has been beautiful. Im so excited you are coming closer to me in Essex so now I can join and be a part of the community even from home.
This beautiful project is hope! Hope for nature, mother Gaias beautiful planet, restoring sovereignty and land back to communities. I crave this desperately and would love to be a part of it. I have no savings but i have myself, pair of helping hands and a good heart should you need help.
I live in Essex but am very interested in your project which gives me hope for the future. Hopefully this way of connecting with the earth and people will expand over the U.K. My best wishes.
Truly wonderful and very grateful and inspired to hear about this wonderful project and movement , I would love to be a part of it , I am in Yorkshire but still I believe all tribe in the uk must gather to fully learn all aspects of sovereignty , I look forward to aligning with you all. Blessings & Love
Where are these farms situated? Anything in Somerset? I’m in Bath, so would like to know if there is something local to me.