We spent a lovely couple of days drawing and painting up at Eves Hill Farm, Booton, Reepham, a few years ago. They now need room to expand. Here is all the information. Perhaps you know of somewhere which might be suitable?
Please contact Hannah if you just might!
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Can you help us find a new home...?
For the first five years of Eves Hill Veg Co's life, we have been based at Eves Hill Farm in Booton. We are now looking for a new home. A place where we continue to develop our work, dig in, establish deep roots and grow. We have built a strong reputation, connected with a huge and wonderful community and developed our market gardening, growing, distributing and training social enterprise model - proved our worth! This year our veg sales will be 4 times what they were in our first year and we have now put almost 100 people through formal training programmes. That's growth! It feels good to be able to seek out this next step with a reputation behind us. And proof that if we have access to land, we know we know how to use it; to be super productive food growers, share it to build community and to provide a unique platform for encouraging economic and cultural growth.
Check out our stats, come and say hello, talk to those we have worked alongside. If you (or anyone you know) share in our values and have the skills, expertise, creativity or resources, then please step forward, introduce yourself and help us grow
What are we looking for (ideally):
* 2 acres of land (minimum) with access to electricity and water, ideally a shed or barn and in a dream scenario facilities for a classroom. We do have our sister site in Aylsham at Bushey place, so if the new site is found in Aylsham, we could potentially link the two together using a patchwork farm model.
* To be within our community of Aylsham and Reepham. Aylsham is proving interesting because a) it's where we currently (Tom and Hannah) live and b) the bus connections are so much better for access for those attending courses and training opportunities - it also connects us to Sheringham, Cromer, North Walsham, Mundesley areas.
* We may have to rent, a relationship with public council owned land would be interesting (public land for public good!) but buying a site is not out of the question - we think we could look at crowdfunding and grant match funding plus owning land would certainly give us the security we need to think long term.
Finding the right set up is intrinsically linked to sustainability, building trust and community, spreading good practice and building a different approach to food and soil in Norfolk. The more settled we are, the more able we are to support individuals and organisations to meet these same aims.
Can you help us find our perfect plot?
Do you have experience of running a crowdfunding campaign, know how to put together ambitious funding plans, have experience of community land trusts (where the community buy shares and own the land), have contacts at the council or want to help in any way? Or are you a private individual (land owner) or trust that is interested in sharing, donating, gifting land and developing an environmental legacy within your local community? Please let us know.
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| just some of the lovely salad from Eves Hill |
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