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The producers, the gardeners and the people who just want to eat better, talking to each other.

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It lets you post, reply, follow a farm and leave a review. It costs nothing, it is not required to read anything, and we do not sell what it tells us — there is nobody to sell it to, because this site carries no ad network.

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The feed and the circles

Join the feed, circles, letters and articles and more!
The feed2 posts

Questions, gluts, what people are cooking and what went wrong this season. Anyone signed in can post.

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Circles2 circles

Smaller rooms — seed savers, small-block producers, market gardeners. Join the ones you want and leave the rest.

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Letters and articles

Longer pieces from producers and from us. Every article ends with its sources, and where the evidence is thin it says so.

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We’re backing producers

Take a look at what we are funding.

Independent research

Funding the questions nobody is paying to ask about lower-input farming.

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Kai Equity Fund

Subsidised organic boxes for households where price is the barrier.

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Conversion Fund

Grants and mentoring to get farms through the three-year transition.

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Regional Networks

Field days, open-farm trails, shared certification and mentoring.

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Seed & Soil

Seed sovereignty, seed libraries and affordable soil testing.

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Keep every grower on the map

Hosting and the annual certificate verification.

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Training and apprenticeships

Paid places on organic apprenticeships and cadetships, so learning to grow is not unpaid labour.

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Getting onto land

Not buying farms. Underwriting leases, incubator blocks and the legal cost of land trusts.

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Getting your hands dirty

Find work on a farm, put your own on the map, or back the sector as an organisation.
Work and learn

Jobs, apprenticeships and training on organic farms. Posted by the farms themselves.

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List your farm

Free, and it stays free whatever else you do here. A certificate number gets checked against your certifier's own register.

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Organisations

Certifiers, retailers, packaging, research and tourism bodies who back the sector. Labelled as partners, never as farms.

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What an account does not do

It does not follow you around the internet, it does not feed an ad network, and it does not change what you are shown. There is no algorithm here to personalise, because ordering by anything other than time or season is the door this platform decided not to open. The privacy statement →