The pandemic has brought a reckoning for how we feed ourselves and where we get our food. The Estate could support connections to local food through food partnerships, community groups taking on council leasehold sites, and Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) schemes that link food producers to consumers. Farming within the Estate should work with nature with restorative principles to increase biodiversity, soil health and food quality so food production and environmental protection can go hand in hand. 

Sussex Wildlife Trust 'Regenerative agriculture and landscape innovation'
Tablehurst and Plaw Hatch Community Farm Cooperative
Articles on the ways farming is changing in Sussex from CPRE, the Countryside Charilty
BBC Radio Four series English Pastoral by farmer James Redbanks
National Farmers Union 'South Downs farms help soil and water'