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For a Living, Working Countryside

Our mission is to provide affordable opportunities for ecological land-based businesses in the UK. We support rural regeneration by developing affordable sites for farming, forestry and other rural enterprises which are viable and ecologically beneficial.

To find out more see About Us.

Projects: Small is Successful

Our report - Small is Successful - examines eight smallholdings with land-based businesses on 10 acres or less. The smallholdings demonstrate that economically viable and highly sustainable land based livelihoods can be created on holdings of this size. While the incomes generated would be described as modest, none of the smallholdings receive subsidies, and the income we have examined does not include money from non-agricultural activities, such as any courses, consultancy work or B&Bs that the smallholders also provide.

Applications Open

We are looking for tenants for our first affordable smallholdings for new entrants to ecological agriculture.

Location: Holcombe Rogus, Mid Devon.

Full details: Apply for a Smallholding

Greenham Reach Small-holdings

Update - 4 April 2013
Planning Permission Granted!

We are absolutely overjoyed to be able to share with you the news that we have been granted planning permission to develop three affordable residential smallholdings for new entrants to ecological agriculture. Our applications—made in December 2011—were recommended for approval by Mid Devon District Council’s planning department but refused by District Councillors in June 2012.

April Newsletter

Download our latest newsletter with articles on our planning decision and planning process, the launch of a UK branch of the small farmers' organisation Via Campesina and more. Download here April Newsletter