Summary
The North Downs Patchwork Farm is a collective of food-growing spaces, spread across the north downs. It exists to build relationships between food growers, local residents and the land, through regenerative food growing practices.
Key objectives
- Growing a diverse selection of food across a number of small plots of land, each allocated to particular crop(s) / produce
- Sharing of expertise and resources
- Engaging younger generations in learning about regenerative food growing practices
- Providing those without land with opportunities to grow food
- Providing those with land support to cultivate
- Supplying the local community with sustainably grown, free & affordable produce through a network of distribution points
- Hosting community feasts that bring everyone together around the table
- Embedding nature-connectedness into everyday culture, through governance, food growing & the arts
- Building wellbeing for local community members of all species (‘socioecological wellbeing’)
Key activities
- Daily food-growing activities across a number of sites
- Weekly distribution of surplus goods to member organisations
- Bi-weekly food swap markets with opportunities for selling additional products
- Quarterly newsletter
- Whatsapp group or similar for sharing advice and resources for all members
- Schools engagement and young persons training (lite) through visits to growing spaces
- Monthly nature-connectedness workshops on the land and at community feasts
- Monthly core team meeting
- Quarterly community feasts