37 acres of regenerated and rewilded for the benefit of farming and nature.

Land, nature and connection are vital for our physical and mental wellbeing. Building soil, restoring habitat and practising conservation-led farming practices are essential if we’re to restore the balance to this vibrant, incredible living planet we’re lucky enough to call home. Here at Brimwood Farm, naturalistic farming, intensive market garden systems and nature reclamation are being used to provide a space for wildlife recovery, spiritual connection and food production in a little corner of sunny Suffolk.

Nature Recovery

Nature leads the way at Brimwood. Yellowhammers sing atop 100 year old hedgerows whilst nightingales nest amongst the lower branches. Traditionally ploughed fields have been turned over to thousands of trees where scrub creates sapling nurseries, grass snakes and lizards bask on dead wood and the thatch bouncing beneath your feet is alive with insects. Open meadows burst with clouds of meadow brown and ringlet butterflies flitting above waist-high flowering wild grasses. Orchids thrive on the ribbons of chalky soil and deep in a thicket of brambles there’s an unfolding story in the badger sett and fox dens.

Food Production and Farming

Farming doesn’t have to be at the detriment of nature. Here at Brimwood Farm, I run a small-scale and intensive market garden that supplies vegetable boxes to local customers in addition to selling at Farmers’ Markets. A cut-flower farm supplements income, allowing food prices to be kept as low as possible to make access to healthy and seasonal food more readily affordable. Rare breed animals provide high-welfare meat and are used to pasture graze and shape the land as their native ancestors might have done.

YOU Can Support Nature Recovery

We find ourselves at a critical time in farming; a vast network of small and independent farms can provide the answer for nature recovery and the production of local, healthy produce. However, farm costs, legislation and red-tape are often in conflict with making such a change viable. Supporting this network by buying produce and visiting farmer’s markets is a great way of facilitating change. Come to one of my farm events; an open day, a sound bath, a moon circle or even stay on the campsite!

You can also support conservation and wildlife work at Brimwood by joining Patreon; get all your nature and farm news in one place. If you’d prefer a one-time payment, buy me a coffee!

YOUR Support has ALREADY Achieved:

• Sowing and Maintaining a 3.5 acre wildflower meadow

• Planting over 2,000 trees

• Restoration of ponds allowing amphibians to successfully breed again

• Dedicated birds of prey nesting boxes

• Creation of Turtle Dove habitat; individuals have reappeared and in 2024 the first pair successfully reared chicks

• Reptile habitat zones where grass snakes and common lizards now thrive

• Rewilded farm land with free range livestock that has regenerated the soil, created areas of scrub and open pasture where an ever increasing variety of native plants can now be found, including pyramid and bee orchids

• and MUCH more!

Your support goes towards:

• Boundary fence so I can rewild the pigs

• Planting trees and native wildflowers

• Camera traps so we get a sneak peak of the badger sett dynamics

• Hiring dedicated nature and ecological specialists for site surveys and advice

• Pond, waterway and ditch restoration

• And so much more!