Harvest Hub

Feeding Our Neighbours. Rebuilding Our Soil. Taking Back Our Food.

Once upon a time, you knew who grew your carrots.

You knew what season strawberries belonged to.
You knew that real eggs came warm from the nest, not weeks later cold from a carton.
You knew that soil wasn’t something to be avoided—it was something you thanked.

We didn’t always have supermarkets.
We had gardens. Markets. Fields. Neighbours.
We had communities built on the unspoken promise that food—good food—would always be close by.

Now?
We have hollow shelves and hollow promises.
We have produce flown thousands of miles to sit, half-ripe, behind plastic wrap.
We have children who think tomatoes grow in winter.
We have farmers told they can't make a living unless they buy seeds they can't save, fertiliser they don't need, and sell into markets they don't control.

Corporations want farmers dependent—on inputs, on chemicals, on commodities they can price and gatekeep.
Because for them, food isn’t about feeding people.
It’s about feeding profits.

Governments won’t fix it.
Supermarkets won't fix it.
Only we can.

At Oak & Acre, we’re starting where real change always starts—with soil, with neighbours, with seeds.

With a Harvest Hub that brings food back to where it belongs:
Close to home. Close to heart.

Why It Matters

We’re not just growing vegetables.
We’re growing a better future—because the one we’re being offered is rotten at the root.

In the UK, 46% of our food is imported. That makes us dangerously vulnerable to global shocks, shortages, and rising prices.
(Source: UK Government Food Security Report)
70% of UK land is farmland—yet only a fraction grows food directly for people. Most goes to cash crops, fuels, or intensive animal feed.
(Source: DEFRA Agricultural Statistics)
Modern agriculture depletes soil 10 to 40 times faster than it can naturally replenish. Without soil, there is no future food.
(Source: UN FAO Reports)
Corporate control of seeds and agricultural inputs locks farmers into cycles of dependency where they own less of their work each year.

This isn’t conspiracy.
This is what happens when food stops being about people—and starts being about profit.

We don't need more contracts.
We need carrots we can carry home from the farm.

We don't need more packaging.
We need parsnips with the dirt still on them.

We don't need more fragile food chains.
We need sturdy food roots—deep, local, alive.

When we rebuild our food system where we live, we:

Cut out thousands of food miles
Keep money inside our communities
Restore dignity and independence to growers
Serve neighbours, not shareholders.
Make sure no one has to choose between eating and surviving

This is why the Harvest Hub matters.
Because if we don't build it, no one will.

Soil: The First and Last Line of Defence

Healthy soil isn’t dirt.
It’s life itself.

It holds carbon.
It holds water.
It holds the memory of seasons long before we were born.

In healthy soil, we don’t just grow carrots and beets.
We grow flowers that feed bees.
We grow grasses that feed animals that, in turn, feed the land again.
We grow medicine.
We grow roots that hold the earth together.

Without healthy soil, civilizations fall. It's not theory—it's history.

The ancient Sumerians, the Mayans, the Roman Empire—each one rose through fertile soils and collapsed after degrading them beyond repair.

Overfarming, deforestation, and poor land management turned thriving lands into dustbowls, broke food systems, and starved out empires.

We think we're smarter now.
But without living soil, we're just next in line.

At Oak & Acre, we refuse to be next.

We farm differently:

Compost instead of chemical fertilisers
Crop diversity instead of mono-fields
Livestock raised as part of the land, not apart from it.
No till, no chemicals, no shortcuts—only the slow work that builds real abundance.

Every seed sown and every harvest made with care locks a little more life into the land.
Every pasture restored is a flood averted.
Every tomato grown without plastic wrap is a vote for a different future.

In soil, we grow food.
In soil, we grow community.
In soil, we grow freedom.

The Future We're Growing

Imagine it:

Families eating meals built from gardens they can walk to.
Schools serving vegetables harvested by local hands.
Elderly neighbours receiving fresh produce grown across town.
Homeless shelters cooking meals made from real, fresh ingredients—not tins and packets.

Imagine a map of small Hubs—each serving a community of 10,000 people—interwoven like a living tapestry.

Trading surplus.
Sharing seeds.
Supporting each other through the seasons.

Not a national supply chain.
A national patchwork—alive, diverse, unbreakable.

We did it during the war.
We can do it again.

Animals, Soil, and the Full Circle

Animals aren’t the enemy—they're essential.
Grazing cattle, foraging pigs, pastured poultry—all play a role in restoring soil, cycling nutrients, and building healthy farms.

We won't demonise meat.
We’ll honour it:

Supporting local regenerative farmers
Using whole animals, nose-to-tail
Sharing what we raise fairly, with every household that trusts us to feed them.
Respecting the seasons, the soil, and the life given

This is how land and people stay healthy together.

Building It Together

At Oak & Acre, we’re starting small but dreaming big.

We’re looking for:

Gardeners willing to grow a patch
Anyone ready to eat seasonally, locally, and with purpose
Farmers willing to partner with us
Volunteers to help pack boxes, host meals, teach skills
Landowners offering plots for growing

We believe every village deserves its own Harvest Hub.
Every town deserves food that grows within sight, not across the sea.

We won't build this by selling to everyone, everywhere.
We'll build it by feeding our neighbours first—and then helping others do the same.

This Is the Movement

We are not another brand.
We are not another delivery box.

We are families taking control of what feeds us.
We are farmers and gardeners and cooks and seed-savers.
We are citizens who refuse to let our soil die, our communities hollow out, or our plates be filled with empty promises.

We are rebuilding from the ground up—with muddy boots and stubborn hearts.

And it starts now.

Questions? Ideas? Land to offer? Hands to lend?

We’re gathering the community now, and every voice matters.

Reach out — let’s grow something real together.