SAVERNAKE PARK COMMUNITY FARM
SPCF is more than a farm — it is a working prototype to fix three broken systems:
Food & Farming, Climate & Nature, and Education & Community.
Food & Farming
The broken system:
Long, extractive supply chains. Falling yields. Farmers are living off subsidies, rather than their produce. High stress on land and people.
SPCF fix:
Link farmers directly to end consumers. Collapse existing food supply chains. Give growers their full financial value and give chefs the freshest possible produce. Increase UK food security.
Education & Community
The broken system:
Record school exclusions. A one-size-fits-all curriculum. Loneliness & stress increasing in every age group. Limited access to nature.
SPCF fix:
Welcome members of the community, from excluded students to learners of all abilities. Partner with F&B staff from The Burnt Chef. Build a shared sense of connection with nature and HM The King's Harmony Principles.
Climate & Nature
The broken system:
Agriculture drives ~30% of global GHG emissions. Biodiversity is in freefall. Soils have been degraded. Unpredictable weather cycles.
SPCF fix:
Practise regenerative farming at scale, sequester carbon with biochar, compost waste, harvest rainwater, restore biodiversity, and grow nutrient-dense food.
A coalition already in motion
SPCF is built on partnership. The farm is already active — trees planted, schools
on-site weekly, and a founding coalition of mission-aligned charities and organisations
working together.
The Harmony Project: Custodians of HM The King's Harmony Principles. The primary curriculum partner for SPCF's Harmony Learning Centre.
The Burnt Chef Project: Mental-health charity for the F&B industry. Stressed hospitality workers come to SPCF to decompress by sharing their Food & Beverage knowledge and skills with local students.
The Felix Project: London's largest food-redistribution charity. With SPCF, they share their volunteers, logistics know-how, and onward distribution of surplus food.
Already happening on SPCF
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4,983 fruit trees planted across 74 heritage varieties: apples, pears, plums, apricots, quinces, medlars...
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Two local schools on-site weekly: student groups engaged in planting, picking, and stewardship.
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Wildflower meadows seeded across the site, boosting pollinator populations & supporting orchard yields.
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Live tastings & content partnerships (Professor Green & The Unlikely Baker) raising the project's profile.
