Regenerative growing

We use low-disturbance growing methods that protect soil structure and support the billions of organisms that make soil alive. We don’t use synthetic fertilisers, pesticides or herbicides. Instead we build fertility through composting, green manures and cover crops, and the integration of animals. We’re transitioning toward minimum tillage with green manures — a more sustainable long-term system.

Community Supported Agriculture

Our veg box scheme — a CSA — means you share the harvest with us for the season. That gives us the stability to plan and grow without the pressure of a normal retail market. It also connects you directly to the food you eat and the people who grew it.

Open-pollinated and landrace seeds

We grow only open-pollinated varieties — seeds free from corporate patents. For selected crops we plant around five different varieties together, encouraging them to cross-pollinate freely. Each season we select the strongest, most locally suited plants to save seed from. Over time those seeds become more adapted to Cornwall’s conditions — more resilient, better tasting, and entirely ours to share.

This approach — developed by seed breeder Joseph Lofthouse as Adaptive Agriculture — works with nature’s own selection processes. We do this in partnership with the Gaia Foundation’s Seed Sovereignty Programme as part of the emerging Living Seeds CIC initiative.

Integrating livestock

Healthy farming systems include animals. We’re integrating livestock into our growing system — grazing animals that build fertility, move nutrients, and close the cycles that pure plant-growing leaves open.

Why local food resilience matters more than ever

In 2023, Professor Tim Lang published Just in Case: 7 Steps to Narrow the UK Civil Food Resilience Gap for the National Preparedness Commission. His conclusion was stark: there is no serious national plan for food resilience. No town, county, region or country has a joined-up strategy for what happens when supply chains fail, harvests collapse, or imports are disrupted.

Lang’s recommendations include exactly what we’re doing here: community-scale growing, local food networks, and practical resilience built from the ground up.

We’re not waiting for a government plan. We are the plan.

We are currently working with the local Climate Action Partnership to help develop a local emergency food security plan for the Redruth area.

Come and see it for yourself.