Keeping your farms local takes a whole town.
Every town already has the people to do it: aspiring farmers with more hustle than money, farmers ready to step back, a council that wants young families, businesses that need farming families, and locals who want their money doing something they can see. Here's where you fit.
Aspiring farmers
You can't buy a farm yet, but you can get your town moving. Go and see your mayor and ask them to get the right people in a room. Then find your own deal.
Farmers ready to step back
How your farm changes hands matters. Start with your Ageing on Farm plan, then talk to us about keeping it farmed and in local hands. And bring others with you who want the same future for your district.
What we can do with your town
The 5 farms program
On the edge of town the numbers turn against farming: the land is priced for subdivision, not for what it can grow, and each block alone is too small to be a living. So the farms go, one estate at a time, just as the town grows hungriest for them.
Mayors and councils
Towns put up signs saying open for business. The towns that win the next generation will be open for farming: the place next generation farmers pick because they can get a real start there.
Put your money where your town is
There is a way to own good farmland with your own community, and to know exactly what your money does: it keeps a farm farmed, in local hands, with a young family on it. Locals pool together to bring a farm into the Cultivate Trust, the right farmer goes on, and the land stays farmed and local.
Get in touch
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It's already working.
Circular Head Farming in north west Tasmania started with one dairy farm in 2014. Today it's twelve farms, with a young family on every one, backed by locals who believed in their own place.
You find it. We help you make it work.