Hop & Hare Farm

The sole purpose of our investment in land was to create a training market garden. A place for budding farmers to cut their teeth starting a no-dig market garden for direct selling to local communities. The farm provides a safe space that requires no rent and gives accommodation, teaching, labor, and a ready-made website. Once the trainees have started their business we aid the funding of another piece of land, with barn, water, power and planning to make space for the next round of trainees through the gates.

This should create a co-op style bank of farming, infrastructure support, but most importantly locally produced food.

A farm isn’t a farm without animals, regardless of eating them, its the value livestock gives from turning soil, pulling and pecking or just fertilizing as they go. Hail the poop.  Our chickens and ducks roam around our first field, if your lucky you will stumble across the duck eggs laying in the field, they are not discerning about where they lay our free roaming hen flock mean you can buy fresh eggs from us. . Mind out for the resident Cockeral he is a cock by nature, our rule is never to turn your back to him. Winter brings our sheep back to the farm from their summer holiday munching through the lush sweet grass from November to February. Our pigs are coming this year to wallow in the woodland so yes piglets through the summer. They will all feast on the abundance of sweet chestnuts, acorns, and grasses. In turn, we will have sausages, bacon, and many cuts of pork.