Our Roadmap

Okay, let’s get strategic

Creating a thriving network of land-based communities isn't something that's going to happen overnight. It's going to take careful planning, a robust organisation, and a long-range approach to overcome the very real challenges we face—from land access and finance to social cohesion and a planning system not yet geared for the kind of development we're proposing.

Rather than underestimate these challenges, we've got strategic and mapped out a pathway forward that we believe can take us from vision to vibrant reality in a way that’s grounded, creative, and enjoyable—while also being as fast as possible.

In broad strokes, here are the main steps of that pathway:

 

Step 1. Articulate our beautiful vision

At the heart of our work is a holistic vision for low-impact land-based community living—one that has evolved through years of living on the land, exploring existing eco-villages, and researching one-planet solutions.

Our Vision page lays out our integrated community design, while our new Insights blog will dig into the broad historical, philosophical and ecological context of our vision, as well as many of the practical and social dimensions of land-based community living.

By articulating a clear, compelling vision and placing it as best we can in its full context, we hope to create something our tribe can understand, connect with, and collaborate towards making real.

Ways to get involved:

• Read our Vision page and share your feedback
• Join the Community Design working group in our online hub
• Volunteer to join our Media team (we’re looking for artists, storytellers, social media and PR people to help us craft and share compelling narratives around our vision)
• Subscribe to our Insights blog and share content with others who might resonate
• Apply to write for us

 

Step 2. Grow our organisation

It takes a village to make a village. Before we can build communities on the land, we need a community of people dedicated to helping make our vision a reality.

We're growing a living structure that embodies the principles we aim to carry into our land-based communities—not a hierarchy, but an ecosystem of roles, teams, and circles that can evolve as our work grows.

We’ve set up as a CIC and our focus now includes expanding our core team, building robust operational and financial systems, securing funding streams, and growing our volunteer network.

We’re not able to offer any paid roles at the moment, but as our funding base grows there will be lots of paid opportunities emerging.

Ways to get involved:

• Join one of our volunteer working groups in the online hub
• Offer your professional expertise as an advisor or mentor
• Help to fund our organisational development through donations or impact investment
• Share opportunities, contacts, or insights you think might be useful

 

Step 3. Weave a collaborative ecosystem

Our success will depend on cultivating a vibrant network of partnerships and collaborative relationships. We’ll be actively seeking to build connections with like-minded organisations, technical experts, progressive landowners, sympathetic funders, and forward-thinking local authorities.

This collaborative ecosystem will entangle us with the broader movement and provide expertise, credibility, and support as we navigate regulatory and funding landscapes as well as the many dimensions of land-based community living. It will also create a vibrant knowledge commons around land-based community living that can serve as a valuable resource for anyone walking that path.

Ways to get involved:

• Share your expertise or join our advisory network
• Talk to us about co-creating an event with us, either online or in-person
• Connect us with experts, organisations, or landowners in your network
• Help us map and connect with other land-based projects across the UK

 

Step 4. Build a financial engine

As an organisation we need operational funds, and plenty of them.

Instead of relying on grant funding or trying to move forward on a shoestring budget, we’re working to create a strong and sustainable financial engine to power our mission.

To this end, we're working on a range of strategic enterprises that will generate revenue while also demonstrating key aspects of our community vision, growing our collaborative ecosystem, expanding the skills-base of our collective and nourishing the broader land-based living movement.

Initiatives currently in the pipeline:

1. WyldRooms

High-end, nature-inspired, circular straw-bale garden rooms.

These structures will showcase low-impact natural building to an audience who might not otherwise be exposed to them, model the kind of structures we’ll be creating in our communities, provide livelihoods for a small team of natural builders, skill-up volunteer team members, and generate revenue—all while creating beautiful, new-paradigm living spaces for clients.

We’re just putting the finishing touches to our prototype WyldRoom and will soon be ready to launch and start taking orders for Spring 2026 onwards.

Ways to get involved:

• Apply to join our WyldRoom build crew as a paid natural builder, or volunteer and learn natural building skills
• Commission a WyldRoom for your garden
• Host a roundhouse building party on your land

2. Retreat Centres

Immersive, nature connection ‘eco-tourism’ sites featuring WyldRoom sleeping pods set in a regenerative landscape of food forests, permaculture gardens, rewilding ares, natural swimming ponds, with a range of beautiful low-impact infrastructure to support individual stays as well as group workshops and events.

As well as generating revenue and serving as training hubs for our collective, these sites will be small-scale versions of the kind of communities we aim to create, built along exactly the same design lines, and so can act as demonstration sites showing planners, funders, and potential residents what our full-size communities will look and feel like.

We’re aiming to build our first retreat centre in summer 2026 and are currently looking for potential sites around South Devon as well as investors to fund construction.

Ways to get involved:

• Get in touch if you have land in South Devon and would like to partner with us to create a retreat centre
• Connect us with landowners who might want to partner with us
• Get in touch if you’d like to consider investing to fund retreat centre construction
• Join our volunteer network to be part of building our first retreat centre

3. Events & Courses

In-person and online events, courses and workshops covering a wide range of practical skills, social-weaving techniques, and nature-based practices. From natural building to permaculture design, sociocracy to the way of council, nature connection to ecological wisdom and regenerative living philosophies.

These learning experiences will generate revenue while sharing valuable skills and building the competencies needed for land-based community living among our tribe and also contributing to the broader regenerative living movement.

We’ll be running online events from winter 2025/26 and in-person events from spring 2026.

Ways to get involved:

• Talk to us about co-creating an event with us, either online or in-person
• Collaborate on course development if you have expertise to share

4. Land-Based Crafts Store

A carefully curated online marketplace for high-quality land-based products made using traditional skills and sustainable materials. This will showcase the best of British craft while providing an outlet for artisans within and beyond our planned communities.

Launching 2026.

Ways to get involved:

• Partner with us as a craftsperson to sell your work
• Suggest craftspeople or products that align with our values

 

Step 5. Create our first community

Alongside establishing our operational infrastructure, growing our collaborative ecosystem, and developing our enterprise initiatives, we'll be working to bring our first full-scale community into being.

Our aim is to seed a number of groups around the country and work with each of these to begin the process of attracting potential residents, submitting proposals to local planning authorities, and seeking land and funding.

This process has already begun in Totnes, Devon, and we’re looking to start additional groups in Wales and Cornwall—where planning policy exists to support one-planet developments—as well as in progressive areas of England—possibly Frome, Forest Row, Hebdon Bridge.

Eventually, one of these proposals will gain permission, and we’ll then put our energy behind that to bring our first community into being. As the process of gaining permission will inevitable take a while, we should by the time we reach that point have moved along significantly with steps 1-4 and be in a strong position in terms of community design, organisational capacity, resources and expertise to be able to confidently manage the building of the community.

The construction process itself will be a community-building experience, with future residents working together alongside professionals and volunteers (who may be potential residents of further communities) in what we envision to be a mini-festival of land-based creativity and a celebration of one-planet possibilities.

Ways to get involved:

• Join a community development working group for a specific location
• Express your interest as a potential resident
• Contribute to funding or connect us with potential funders

 

Step 6. Establish a community of communities

Building on our pilot success, we'll be working to harness public opinion to influence planning policy to support one-planet communities, making the journey for further local groups significantly easier.

And with our growing operational strength and resources, we'll be in a position to support an increasing number of local groups through planing applications stage and into construction.

At this point we'll form a community of communities, a federation body that can support the whole network through shared resources, proven frameworks, and financial assistance, while ensuring that each individual community retains its own autonomy.

Ways to get involved:

• Start or join a group interested in forming a community in your region
• Offer land or connect us with progressive landowners

 

Step 7. Beyond Communities: Fostering Land-Based Culture

Our ultimate goal extends beyond this community of communities.

Our big mission is to help foster a broader renaissance of land-based culture across the UK.

We envisage our retreat centres becoming access points for new-paradigm living, providing held spaces for deep nature-connection experiences; our educational resources spreading land-based skills and knowledge widely; our communities becoming hubs of inspiration and living laboratories of regenerative praxis.

In all these ways, as well as many others we haven't seen yet, we aim to help re-root human culture in the living earth, restoring our society’s relationship with the land in a way that makes it clear that human and ecological flourishing can—and indeed must—go hand in hand.