Our mission starts with food as the foundation. We choose sovereignty over convenience and we're here to build something that outlasts us.
When we started My Little Farm, we were clear about two things. First, food sovereignty matters: families need trusted, nutrient-dense food grown without synthetic chemicals or routine pharmaceuticals, on land that’s stewarded, not squeezed. Second, we would never reach that on our own. A resilient food system is built with people, not for them.
That’s why membership here is different. Yes, you receive the benefits of co-owning the source; priority access to the food you can trust, and a real say in how we build. But there’s more, and it’s the part we love most: your membership feeds beyond your front door.
In 2026, through Crops Not Shops, our social-impact arm, we will ring-fence 20% of weekly output for those most in need. Not leftovers, not a seasonal stunt, but baked-in generosity, week in, week out. Alongside that food, we will host education and wellbeing days that pass on simple, durable skills: cooking from the land, caring for soil, tending hedgerows, working with animals, fermenting, making broth. It’s quiet work that restores dignity and connection. As membership grows, that 20% grows with it. More members → more acres → more herbal pastures → more real food on real tables. That’s the multiplication we’re after.
To do this well, we’re following a first principles aproach. Prototype on the ground in East Sussex. Learn what it takes to run a small, regenerative farm to the highest standards. Build simple, repairable systems. Keep waste down, welfare up. Then take the next step: secure a larger, 100+ acre estate, expand capacity, and replicate the pattern wherever aligned communities are ready. The long arc is clear: a decentralised grid of 100 community-owned farms serving 100,000 families, and from that, a cultural shift where homes grow from food, not speculation.
Founding Membership is how that grid becomes real. It moves you from “customer” to co-owner, placing your hand on the same spade. Your membership helps convert intention into infrastructure: fences and water systems, cold-chain and pasture mixes, the unglamorous, vital kit that turns land into nourishment and impact. It also invites you into the room where we do the work—member calls where we share updates, choose priorities, and keep promises honest.
If you’re new to us, here is the simplest way to hold it: membership is a commitment to place. It’s how we say, together, “let the value live in soil, food, and community,” and then prove it—one bed, one herd, one harvest at a time. When we honour that, everything else becomes possible. The grid gets stronger. Standards hold firm. And the ring-fenced line for Crops Not Shops carries further, into more homes and more lives.
We’re in a focused window right now. The pre-sale of Founding Memberships helps us finish the last pieces of the pilot and positions us to move on the next estate. It’s a practical bridge from “nearly” to “operational,” from a single farm to a pattern that can be repeated. If we do our part, the work compounds: soil deepens, children learn by doing, neighbours join the story, and the idea of “enough” returns to the table.
If this vision resonates, food first, people first, member-owned, we’d love you inside the circle as a Founding Member. Not for hype or headlines, but for the steady build that makes a national grid possible and keeps that 20% promise alive.
Comments (1)
I am very interested in you farm and want to become a founding member, my friend Fern is already a founding member and has worked on your farm, she lives in Bournemouth, so it is not too far away for her. I live in Cardiff, South Wales, so it is further for me. At the moment, I cannot afford the founding member fee. I have a house which is rented and when the tenants leave in April, I will be selling it. Is there any way I can pay a much lower amount monthly to become a founding member?
I listened to you talk this week and it was very inspiring.