Ecological Land Cooperative
Short description of your place and practices
Our mission is to provide affordable opportunities for ecological land-based livelihoods in the UK.
The Ecological Land Cooperative is a membership organisation. On joining, members become part of the group of people who collectively own the cooperative and decide how it should be run. We are always happy to welcome new members. We are a Community Benefit Society registered with the FCA and our Board of directors is elected by the membership at the AGM.
Our Aims & Objectives
To enable future farmers to access land
Our mission is to provide affordable opportunities for ecological land based businesses in England and Wales. We support rural regeneration by developing sites for farming, forestry and other viable rural enterprises which are also to benefit to the environment.
We demonstrate that marginal agricultural land can be managed to support the production of healthy and local food.
Our aim is to share land more equally amongst the population, therefore helping revitalise rural communities by making land, food and jobs accessible to all. We also seek to redress the historic concentration of land ownership in England and Wales by campaigning for policy change.
We carry out research measuring the benefits of low impact, ecological agriculture for people and land. We demonstrate that marginal agricultural land can be managed to support the production of healthy and local food.
By purchasing land and subdividing it into a number of ecological residential smallholdings, this simple, practical solution helps create the necessary conditions for those seeking to pursue land-based livelihoods.
Our core objectives are:
securing land for and creating low impact, residential, agroecological starter farms
identifying and supporting new entrants to ecological agriculture
creating opportunities for people and communities to have access to land and become involved in growing.
creating rural jobs and employment
campaigning for policy change in food, planning and agricultural at local, regional and national levels
carrying out research on agroecology which will freely available online and accessible to all