Conservation Farming Trust

Enabling a new generation of farmers to grow food agroecologically.

Affordable farms on community owned land

In partnership with Our Food 1200, Social Farms & Gardens and Powys County Council, we are building a pilot of three small farms with homes on Council land, ready for leasing in 2025. The land will be transferred into community ownership. We are encouraging other local authorities to follow.

  We founded and are supporting Our Food 1200, a Powys-based community benefit society supporting new farmers – building new supply chains, facilitating enabling planning guidelines, and advocating new Government supports for horticulture.

Farmland Trust: a not-for-profit community investment vehical for farmland and farm building

Using knowledge and experience from around the UK, we are designing a vehicle to buy land, develop small farms and make these available through long-term leases.

Agroecological farming skills

We are expanding training provision, working with Black Mountains College, which runs agroecological horticulture courses in Powys.

We have built Our-Food.org which showcases leading examples of conservation farming from around the world.

Food security: making the case for policy change

We are organising a national conversation on food security in Wales with Professor Tim Lang. We are building a website to communicate the findings of Professor Lang’s study for the National Preparedness Commission.

We are advocating in Cardiff for food strategy that protects citizens from food shocks, for example, through radical diversification of food supplies.

 

Images: Header, Affordable farms, Farmland Trust: As You See It MediaAgroecological farming skills: Adobe Stock; Food security: Shutterstock