Our projects
Affordable farm pilot
Three new small farms with homes on Powys County Farmland in 2025.
In partnership with Powys County Council and Social Farms & Gardens.
Building a Farmland Trust
Buying land into community ownership and developing it as small farms with homes.
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Revising planning guidelines
Working with planning authorities to develop new planning guidelines to enable new farms with homes and infrastructure.
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Leasing farmland
We're inviting farmers to lease land to new farmers.
Read about the criteria for leased land
Recruiting new farmers
From the local area, from diverse communities in our cities, and from among skilled young people across UK.
Starting with pilot farms in Powys
Securing financial support for young farmers
Helping young people without capital wealth to start farming.
We commissioned a short film, Our Food, Our Future, about the struggles of young farmers to find land in our region. It was filmed by Florence Browne and produced by our Director, Adam Alexander.
Our goal
Our goal is to secure 1200 acres of land in 3-10 acre plots across Powys, Bannau Brycheiniog National Park and Monmouthshire for modern, commercial, agroecological fruit and vegetable farming for local markets.
We want new farming enterprises that:
Are small-scale, highly productive and commercially viable.
Help provide food security for Wales.
Give the asset poor, particularly our young people, a chance to access land and start a small-scale fruit and veg farming enterprise.
Promote community through local trading and shared community ownership of our landscape – a “foundational economy”.
Use agroecological methods that: avoid pollution; purposefully fix carbon in the soil and build soil health and biodiversity; produce a lot of food in a small area, so that more land can be left for nature recovery.
Create short, locally-owned supply chains that keep money flows and profits local and at a scale that creates new opportunities for all local farmers.
Reduce the impact of what we eat and drink on carbon emissions and deforestation across the world.
Make fresh, nutritious, locally grown fruit and veg available to everyone in our region, including nearby cities.
Provide communities with opportunities for education and training and help build new connections with and understanding of our land.
Celebrate our local heritage varieties and conserve them for future generations.
See our heritage varieties