Stepping into 2026 with Solid Foundations

As the year draws to a close, we want to share a clear and steady picture of where My Little Farm is heading, and how we’re stepping into 2026 with focus, confidence, and care.

This past year has asked a lot of us. It’s been a year of learning, adjustment, and recommitment to what truly matters. Through it all, one simple truth has kept resurfacing:

When food comes first, everything else finds its place.

This principle is now guiding how we organise the farm, how we work as a team, how we collaborate with other farms, and how we invite new Founding Members into the project.

It brings clarity where things can easily become complicated, and steadiness where long-term thinking is required.

Food first, as a way of working

My Little Farm exists to feed people well. Not occasionally. Not as a side project. But week by week, year-round, at standards we’re proud to stand behind.

Over the past year, we’ve learned that when food becomes too fragmented with too many formats, too many distribution channels, too much customisation, the land, the team, and the wider vision all start to stretch thin.

So as we move into 2026, we’re making a deliberate choice: we are leading with seasonal, weekly food.

The Smallholder Box becomes the primary way the farm’s harvest flows into our community. It gives us a steady weekly rhythm to farm to, pack to, and plan around. Above all, it allows those who want a deeper relationship with their land and their food, to live that out in a practical, nourishing way.

One farm, two paths

At the same time, we know our community is varied, and we want to honour that.

Not everyone wants a fixed weekly structure. Some members value flexibility, choice, and convenience, and that matters too.

Alongside the Smallholder Box, we will continue to offer ad-hoc, customised orders, supplied through a small circle of trusted regenerative partner farms. This keeps food accessible and flexible for the wider membership, while protecting the integrity and rhythm of our own production.

In simple terms:

• Food grown and raised by My Little Farm goes into the Smallholder Boxes first.

• Custom orders are supplied through our surplus and trusted partner farms we know well.

This isn’t either/or. It’s two paths working together, each doing what it does best.

The long view: land, food, and home

Our vision remains bold, and deeply grounded.

We are working toward securing our next 100+ acre estate as our central hub, designed to feed people properly and support a thriving, skilled farm team. From there, our aim is to bring 1,000 acres into member ownership across Sussex. Enough to feed 1,000 Founding Member households each week.

This scale isn’t about growth for its own sake. It creates the conditions for something deeper to emerge: the foundation for our first Sovereign Village, where food, land, home, and community are woven back together in a meaningful way.

Looking ahead to 2026

As we step into the new year, you can expect a steadier weekly rhythm, clearer priorities, and a stronger connection between land and food, alongside continued progress toward the larger vision we share.

Thank you for the patience, belief, and care you bring to this community.

We’re building something that asks a lot, and gives a lot back.