Project includes small forest garden and allotment. Space in dvelopment for food storage, preparation and cooking, as well as permaculture display and resource library and workshop to demonstrate aspects of low-carbon, sustainable living. Outdoor areas demonstrate a domestic-scale garden of useful plants using permaculture design methods in an urban setting.

A thirty year old forest garden (the longest standing intentional food forest garden in Britain according to Permaculture Magazine) fully equipped as a teaching space with major improvements to our household in terms of energy efficiency. Last year (2018) we have grown over a tonne of food in a fifth of an acre (800 sq metres or .08 of a hectare). Peak yield has been 1.25 metric tonnes of food. This is a yield rate pro-rata of 16 tonnes a hectare, twice what even the best chemical farmers produce here. For the last many years we have also produced our own firewood and half our electricity, and operated a working plant and tree nursery in the same space. We are now changing that arrangement as we are getting older, but the garden is still highly productive. We continue to teach courses here and off site. Our main expertise and interest are Permaculture Design (introductory, full design course, and advanced), Forest Gardening, Food Preservation and Permaculture Training of Teachers.

Horton Community Farm is run by local people and has 5 main strands: local food, nature, environmental education and horticultural therapy. We are established as a cooperative and registered as a limited company. We operate as a social enterprise and any profit we generate is invested back into the project.