Supporting your local producers
Your choice to shop directly with your local farms is more important than you may realise. Spending your hard earned cash with us means we get to keep on farming in the way we do, which in turn means you get to keep on buying the very best food.
Local farms make food systems more resilient against global pressures, political or environmental, meaning you’re less at the mercy of fluctuating and unpredictable global markets. We also buy in from other small, local producers who don’t have direct access to consumers, so provide a key link between you and other growers.
We’re often asked who owns the farms. Well, you do. The farm businesses are owned by the Tablehurst and Plaw Hatch Community Farm Cooperative. This means that when you become a member of the Coop you get voting rights at the AGM and the opportunity to join the Coop Committee.
Tablehurst and Plaw Hatch are not-for-profit businesses; everything you spend goes straight back into running the farms, whether that be feed for livestock, rent for grazing land, paying our staff, vet bills (cows are daft), seeds, or fencing. There are no king pins pocketing the spoils.
So, thank you. We exist because you continue to make that happen.
