We are driven by a sense of responsibility to provide pathways to local resilience and solutions to local resource depletion, at the heart of which lies the principle of co-sufficiency. That is to say that we underline the importance of the mutual support of committed people in working towards such a goal.

Our governance structures are built on the understanding that thriving, dynamic human relations need to be firmly built upon trust and respect.

We are aware of the importance of how we make decisions and of the processes of accountability for those decisions. We aim to utilsing a model where the interests of different stakeholders in the co-operative participate in the decision making process. At all levels of the organisation we will endeavour to make decisions through consensus, reverting to voting only as a last resort.

We feel that food is of fundamental importance as a way to engage with the wider community. As such, we have adopted the principles of food sovereignty as developed by La Via Campesina within our covenant. We will also create a local food distribution enterprise utilising the newly developed Open Food Network e-commerce software and create a platform for local food producers to sell their goods direct to consumers.

We will offer regular opportunities to share skills and training through educational courses and workshops, and release reports of our progress into the public domain so that others may also benefit from the lessons we learn.

We want to build communities that share a desire to achieve a healthy and fulfilling life dwelling in harmony with our surrounding ecology with reverence and gratitude. Our perception is that our individual health is reflective of the health of the community we are a part of, whilst the health of the community is in turn dependent upon both the health of the soil, and the strength of the relationships within it.