Three farms at Sarn
The three Sarn farms are up and running. The farmers are highly skilled and were selling produce within three months, and most recently, have been able to organise community feasts, pictured above! Their Facebook page is a delight.
Thirty more farms
For the next phase of scale-up, our target is 30 more farms. We’ve started developing the plan for the next four with ClwydAlyn Housing Association, who can greatly reduce home building costs. Powys County Council has allocated another 35 acres for more farms. We will have a site plan, business plan, and financial plan for this during October.
Supplying Birmingham
The new farms, and also any existing farms wanting to diversify, need a secure market to reduce risk during the start-up period. (Very local markets grow too incrementally for rapid farm development.) We are exploring bringing the first supply into Birmingham forward a year into 2026.
Food security
We have developed a “Food Security Mission” and are about to start implementation. This includes the farm and market building activities above, and also a comprehensive programme of building community food resilience, operating outside of commercial growing. We will work on this with Bwyd Powys Food, our region’s Sustainable Food Partnership.
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Growing more food in Powys for local and regional markets: policy briefing for Powys County Councillors, by Future Farms Partnership
Open letter from Black Mountain College students and alumni to public authorities – ‘let us farm!’
They key to food systems change is a regional approach, concludes an international food roundtable
Making food security action happen in Powys
Future Farms Partnership raises its game: 100 farms
