The Ecological Land Cooperative The Ecological Land Cooperative develops affordable, low impact, smallholdings for ecological agriculture, and have invested in several plots of land across the country for groups of individuals/collectives engaged in sustainable rural livelihoods embarking or seeking to embark upon sustainably managed smallholdings
 

below is a list of collectively organised projects engaged in sustainable rural livelihoods, the latter few of which have been assisted by the Ecological Land Cooperative (see also: https://ecologicalland.coop/meet-our-farmers)
 

UK Projects:

• Keveral Farm, Cornwall
• Fivepenny Farm, Bridport, West Dorset
• Lammas Low Impact Ecovillage, Pembrokeshire, Wales:
• Landmatters Permaculture Project, South Devon:
• Plants for a Future, Devon:
• Greenham Reach Smallholdings, Holcombe Rogus, Mid Devon – Supported by ELC, these are 3 separate residential agricultural workers’ dwellings, each tied to an agricultural holding of between 5.5 and 8.5 acres
• Aweside Farm and Fanfield Farm, Arlington, East Sussex – on land bought by ELC
• Cae Tân, Gower Peninsular, South Wales. — a local community supported agriculture scheme growing veg for over a hundred households. The Ecological Land Coop recently purchased an 18 acre field at Furzehill (Land South Of Furzehill Green Furzeland Wiloxton Cross Ilston Swansea SA2 7LQ) for 2 ecological small farms.

   
  
  London:

  Community Food Growers Network: http://www.cfgn.org.uk

  Growing Communities – organic box-scheme social-enterprise sourced from allotments run by local people in Hackney, East London: http://www.growingcommunities.org/

  Organic Lea: http://www.organiclea.org.uk/

  including Hawkwood Plant Nursery – Organiclea’s food growing and plant production site: http://www.organiclea.org.uk/what-we-do/we-grow-food/hawkwood/