tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55926649669064418312024-03-13T08:40:28.241-07:00Friends' Field LtdA social enterprise to restore land on the edge of Sheffield for organic food production and other land-based livelihoods, helping to build a sustainable local food system for Sheffield.Craig Barnetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16201061939693242954noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592664966906441831.post-45284502843976634262016-11-23T02:31:00.002-08:002019-08-31T11:20:43.071-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">On Hazelhurst Lane, in the beautiful Moss Valley on the edge of Sheffield, there is a place where organic growers and craftspeople can work on the land, producing sustainable local food and building ecologically-based livelihoods.</span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Our vision is to create a diverse patchwork of market gardens, orchards, beehives and coppice woodland on the edge of the city. Organic growers and wood-workers work on</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> the site, using local materials to produce food, fuel and woodland products for Sheffield. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Wildlife thrives in the field margins and adjoining woodland, which also provides coppice wood and timber for fencing, fuel and buildings.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; margin: 0px;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Our motivation is to respond to the challenges of climate change, resource depletion and social inequalities by supporting a sustainable food system and land-based livelihoods. In this way, we aim to help create a more ecologically, socially and economically resilient city, engaged in the transition towards 'one planet living'. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Friends' Field has developed 15 acres of agricultural land on the edge of the city as a site for productive and ecologically sustainable land-based enterprises. The project provides small-scale organic food growers and other land-based workers (such as woodworkers, beekeepers etc) with land, infrastructure and shared equipment at an affordable annual rent. The main part of the site is now leased and managed by <a href="https://regather.net/">Regather Ltd</a>, a local social enterprise, which is growing vegetables to supply their expanding veg box scheme.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; margin: 0px;">As well as sharing infrastructure and equipment, the project enables small enterprises to co-operate through skill-sharing, exchange of products and materials, and co-operative marketing and distribution. The site also adjoins 29 acres of woodland, which is owned by Heather Hunt and is managed in co-operation with the project. This will enable woodland products such as coppice wood and firewood to be conveniently sourced and integrated into productive enterprises.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; margin: 0px;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; margin: 0px;">Friends' Field is part of the wider <a href="https://transitionnetwork.org/">Transition</a> and <a href="http://foodsovereignty.org.uk/">Food Sovereignty</a> movements. We are interested in collaborating with movements and research organisations engaged with locally-controlled, low carbon, land-based initiatives preparing to adapt to our changing climate.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span>Craig Barnetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16201061939693242954noreply@blogger.com