I’m soon to embark on an interesting project overseas related to the theme of this video. You need to watch this video TWICE to get the full effect. 

Buying a farm

Sutton Community Farm is one of the brilliant projects that my team started and works on at BioRegional. We’ve just had an opportunity to expand our farm by 35 acres, which is really exciting. But we are looking for help.

We are looking for people to buy community shares (details at the bottom). We have just a week to put an offer in to buy the land, which costs just over £1 million. So far we have pledges totaling around £500,000.

If you want to find out more, check out One Planet Sutton where their is a little blog piece I wrote and some more information. Else, contact Anna Francis, our food hero (anna.francis@bioregional.com). 

Bit late on blogging this, but do spread the word far and wide today and let’s see what happens.

Community shares - what are they?

There are lots of examples of people getting together and buying farms, post offices, wind turbines etc. The way these shares work is that people invest a certain amount, get benefits such as discounted produce, are part of a worthwhile project, get involved in activity days etc (if desired) and the shares can be sold (for original price) if they need the money back.