As highlighted in our previous blog, the Covid-19 restrictions have exposed the limitations of our current food system with its long supply chains. The changes implemented at Huxhams Cross Farm in Devon with a shift from market or on farm sales to delivery have been echoed around the country. For example, Tablehurst Farm in Sussex,…Continue reading Farms for tomorrow today
Marina O’Connell, co-Director of The Apricot Centre at Huxhams Cross Farm near Totnes, one of the Biodynamic Land Trust’s farm projects, reflects on the current situation. In the absence of cruise ships the dolphins have re-inhabited the canals of Venice. In Totnes, in the absence of something I can’t quite put a name to, the…Continue reading Covid-19 and Food Security
As we move towards spring there is much activity at the Biodynamic Land Trust. Among the emerging new shoots, the Land Trust is developing an ‘Associate Farm Membership’ together with interested farmers. This is an offer to farms not already part of the Biodynamic Land Trust to build a clear relationship with the Land Trust…Continue reading Become an associate farm
One of the Biodynamic Land Trust’s projects, Oakbrook Community Farm has launched a Pioneer Share Offer seeking community investment for key infrastructure. Since the community purchased the 41 acres just outside Stroud through the Land Trust in 2015, Oakbrook Community Farm has developed from bare land into a cluster of farm enterprises. The farm is…Continue reading Invitation to invest in a community farm
