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INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY
Join Farmeco Community Care Limited
By Usama Ibrahim & Evelina Bondareva
The story of the farm began in 1933 with David Rose’s
grandfather who had 90 acres of mixed farm, lots of
livestock and four men working together, selling to
local markets.
David started in 1980 with 200 acres and in 1995
Farmeco became a joint farming group. In 2000, they
took on more land, farming 3000 acres, but David
diversified and worked away from the farm. Eventually,
Farmeco grew to 6000 acres with only 3 men.
But was everything Rosie?
By 2005, we realised that big is not always beautiful,
as we lost focus by chasing the size. So, in 2010 David
came back to the family farm realising the importance
of making every acre count and starting the process of
getting the balance right in the farm.
Since 2010, we have gone back to our own 550 acres
of mixed farming and we now have a venture with
a neighbouring farm who have two young sons to
carry out all the arable work. We also now run a care-
farming social enterprise. Our sheep and agro-forestry
projects support regular visits from a wide range of
people from the local community.
Currently, Farmeco Community Care Limited (FCC) is
converting from a private company limited by shares
to a community benefit society in order to introduce
new ideas, strategies and resources and to launch new
and exciting agricultural and farm oriented business
operations.
Having ran the farm since 1933, David’s family now
wants to invent new ways to make the farm more
productive and sustainable for local communities.
The farm is now open to the public to buy shares
through the community benefit society model. We
are in the process of forming a group to help develop
a business plan and strategic action plans for future.
Aims of Farmeco Community Care
FCC Community Benefit Society has been formed
to bring together like-minded people to help raise
funds and determine how to make education, health
provision, community engagement and sustainable
environment the core focus of Home Farm. The aim
is to get people more involved with farm care and to
understand the impact of reserving nature for society
and the influence it has on community engagement.
We are currently living in an unsustainable environment
and we want volunteers to try and make local
communities to be a lot more environmentally friendly.
The FCC are looking for volunteers to help them aim
towards their goals of achieving social, educational,
agricultural, and ecological equality and welfare. We
will also increase access to fresh, healthy, sustainable
food and provide a shared space for people to
cultivate skills, get exercise and make friends.
We work with a diverse group of people and aim
to further expand on educational and ecological
goals as well as to improve local communities and
build positive relationships with local communities
surrounding the farm. We are hoping that if we
can all work together, we can get a new share offer
to aim towards sustainability even further so local
communities can benefit.
A new share offer would allow FFC to secure the
future and make sure we have a thriving, welcoming
space for everyone to enjoy. We wouldn’t be where
we are today without the support and participation
of thousands of people in our community and we
want even further participation as everyone working
together brings the most amazing response.
FCC are aiming to overcome the social, environmental
and economic challenges which face our communities,
and we aim to tackle these in an ecological and ethical