Wandering People

We have already forged partnerships and have had visits from:

• Honesty Group (an independently owned family of coffee shops, bakery puts and cookery schools across Berkshire and Hampshire) who are stocking our eggs through their online shop

• Basingstoke Food Bank and Community Food Link who take our surplus eggs and give them to people in need across Basingstoke

• Newbury Young Farmers who came to visit our hens and help collecting eggs whilst learning about egg production and our farming practices

• The Vine Public House where local can order their eggs for collection every week

We’re excited to engage with more local businesses, schools and anyone interested in learning about our practices so please do get in touch and arrange a visit.

Our dream is becoming a reality, and we can't wait to see where this journey takes us.

My journey began in the hospitality industry, working in high-end restaurants, bustling pubs and even private boarding schools.

Spending a decade honing my skills and learning the trade, I developed a deep appreciation of how food is grown and handled in good farming and production systems – and the difference this makes to how it tastes.

At the time, Kirsten was working as a primary school teacher. She had a deep passion for education, but she began to notice a real disconnect between children and their knowledge of where food comes from.

This, together with our aspirations for a rural life, fuelled our decision to pursue sustainable agriculture and lead to our first major risk

...we shared dreams of leaving the London we grew up in and swapping it for a simpler, more fulfilling rural life.

It's been a journey filled with uncertainty, but we decided to take the risks and make the sacrifices necessary to achieve our goals.

Along the way, we built meaningful relationships with farmers across the UK who gave us an insight into rural life and the various farming systems – including organic and regenerative agriculture. We were excited to learn more about these alternative systems, and see that harmful mass production doesn’t have to be the only way.

From the day we met...

We decided I would leave my job security, take a massive pay cut and go part-time to study agriculture, hoping to understanding and opportunity in the industry.

'...if we're going to do this, one of us better know what we're doing...'

The road to freedom

Good People, Great Thinking

Working Together

Being able to work alongside an established farming business with so much knowledge and experience to tap into has been invaluable to us as. We can share labour, skills and capital, and have great people to bounce ideas around with.(See us here at Groundswell 2024 helping with the Roaming Smoker).

Learn about our hens and how they Wander the fields of Kingsclere Estates!

After getting to know the team at Kingsclere Estates, and their vision of a closed loop circular farming community, we forged a partnership through their Pitch Up! campaign. Pitch Up! invites businesses and start-ups onto likeminded farms across the UK – and was just the leg-up we needed to get going.

We now produce our organic eggs here and our vision is to expand into other poultry products soon.