This Charter defines how My Little Farm operates as a participatory, regenerative organisation. It outlines the purpose, principles, and structure through which members, farmers, and partners co-create a resilient food system and model the foundations of sovereignty.
The first section describes the teams that directly advance our mission of food sovereignty. The second section describes teams that extend this foundation into the wider Sovereign Village vision.
To secure and regenerate 1,000 acres of farmland in Sussex and produce enough food to feed over 1,000 families establishing My Little Farm as a model of food sovereignty, ecological stewardship, and community-owned agriculture. To integrate our first Sovereign Village of 300 homes into this farmland.
In a time of increasing centralisation of food systems and detachment from the land, My Little Farm provides a tangible path to restore community resilience and food sovereignty through shared ownership and stewardship.
We believe that food sovereignty is the essential foundation of true sovereignty — the starting point from which personal, community, and societal freedom can grow. By restoring people’s direct relationship with the land and their food, we create the stable ground on which broader expressions of sovereignty, such as the Sovereign Village, can flourish.
My Little Farm is rebuilding a culture of shared stewardship through community-owned farms and regenerative land use. Our purpose is to empower people to live in harmony with nature by reclaiming responsibility for their food, land, and future. We do this through a national network of farms, each co-owned, co-stewarded, and operated for the benefit of its members and the wider ecosystem.
This governance charter establishes the principles, structures, and processes by which My Little Farm and its affiliated projects (including the Sovereign Village initiative) organise, make decisions, and evolve together.
The project will endeavour to build a healthy, dynamic, inclusive culture, to enable full engagement with anyone who wishes to participate in alignment with our primary purpose and this process statement. We will organise ourselves in an equitable way guided by the following principles so that over time members genuinely feel they are able to trust and belong within the project.
We recognise that a healthy organisation evolves through feedback and reflection. This process statement will be regularly reviewed and adapted as our community learns and grows.
Our approach to organisation is simple: small teams, clear focus, open communication, and continuous improvement. These principles guide how we work, decide, and evolve together.