We start at the roots. 

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This all kicked off in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, with nothing but a raised bed in a garden and a big wild vision, what if every garden in the UK became a shared food growing space? What if neighbours swapped produce instead of buying into supermarket chains? What if community was the supply chain?

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It was the middle of the pandemic. People were scared, locked indoors, disconnected from nature and each other. But we felt the call to do something real. We started planting. People came. First one garden, then two a day. Forty gardens in four months. Food was shared. Friendships were forged.

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Something ancient was waking up and it felt unstoppable.

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We needed a base, and with the help of locals, we found it, a massive abandoned greenhouse. It became our rebel HQ  a place to organise, grow, and dream bigger.

From there, we didn’t stop. We began transforming dead public spaces, unloved allotments, forgotten farmland anywhere with soil and potential. Farmers who were tired of business-as-usual opened their gates. They saw what we saw the future of land is shared, regenerative, and alive.

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Then 2020 hit hard. Supermarket shelves emptied. Schools and hospitals buckled. People were trapped, scared, and spoon-fed panic. It made one thing clear this system isn’t built to support life. It’s built to control it.

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That’s when the vision sharpened. Our founder, Chay Godfree, saw it clearly  we must decentralise everything. Grow our own food. Create our own energy. Raise and educate our own kids. Return to the Earth and remember who we are not cogs in a machine, but stewards of life.

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We didn’t wait for permission. We rebelled  by building, growing, and giving. We created abundance and community in the face of fear. And it worked. In 2022, landowners began reaching out. They wanted in.

 

That May, we partnered with a visionary landowner in Glastonbury 22 acres in the heart of the Earth’s energy. That land became our mother hub. A living experiment in community farming, radical sharing, and healing the land as we healed ourselves.

Glastonbury gave us more than we ever imagined. We built a culture of generosity : food, resources, skills, and love were exchanged without hesitation. There were no gatekeepers, no red tape, no branding. Just people showing up for the land and for each other. It felt sacred. It felt like the future.

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We built something powerful a model for true freedom not the kind that’s sold to us through ads and politics, but the kind rooted in soil, solidarity, and self-determination. We fed people. We educated. We sheltered. We healed. And we built a network of like minded people who wanted the same.

 

But we knew we couldn’t stay in the Glastonbury bubble. It was beautiful and also not enough. Out there in Babylon, people are still struggling, still hungry for something real. We’re not here to retreat. We’re here to build the alternative loud, visible, and with open arms.

 

Which brings us to now. The sovereign village project to take this model even further more land, more hands, more hearts.

We can’t do this alone. That’s not the way. This next chapter is for all of us.

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We’re not just growing food. We’re growing freedom. We’re building a new culture  rooted in Earth, driven by community, and fired by love and rebellion.

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Join us. Let’s take the land back. Let’s remember what it means to be human.