The Community Farm (“The Farm”) grew from the Transition Towns movement. It is a community-owned and supported organic farm founded by volunteers in 2010. Our purpose is nurturing relationships with the land, food and wildlife through an organic Community Farm. By farming in harmony with nature, we produce food that benefits the climate and biodiversity rather than damaging it. By nurturing relationships, we spread that impact into our community, and help others understand how their food choices impact the environment.

Community is key to everything we do: we aim to grow community as much as food. Here communities are the webs of life that are connected with the farm.  From the microbes in our soil to the birds in the hedges to our members and the people caring for our land, our habitats and growing our crops, to those buying, packing and delivering our boxes. Working with our communities, we grow, source and deliver organic produce and groceries to customers within 15 miles of The Farm, via our award-winning weekly veg box scheme and wholesale customers. Supporting this we run engagement activities. These include volunteering sessions, outreach activities, an intensively supported wellbeing programme, school programmes and food, farming and wildlife events on our beautiful land overlooking Chew Valley Lake, 11 miles from Bristol and Bath.  Our engagement activities bring people together to gain skills and learn about sustainable, low impact and organic horticultural practices, as well as the opportunity to connect with and learn about the land and its inhabitants.

The Community Farm was founded as a Community Benefit Society; a structure that promises to exist only for the purposes of its community, and the rules it has agreed it will abide by.