Market Garden space wanted to connect people with the natural world
Market Garden space wanted to connect people with the natural world
The Social Society is a B Corp-certified, nature-based events and volunteer community organisation founded in Brighton. The team deliver in-person volunteer experiences, nature immersion events and community programmes that reconnect people with the natural world.
The team are seeking land to lease for their flagship site, ideally in Sussex or the wider South East, with a target launch of Spring 2027. The ideal site is 50–60 acres or above, though a smaller footprint for the flagship would be considered if the ecology and setting are right.
Within the space a productive market garden will provide opportunities for learning and growing food for events and be sold through short supply chains to the local community.
The Social Society are building a network of nature-based community hubs across the UK – off-grid, ecologically rich sites that actively restore biodiversity while hosting in-person community experiences based around food and connection.
Low-impact, modular and moveable structures providing a gathering space, overnight accommodation and wellbeing areas, all built using a low-carbon, community-assembled method are also part of the scheme plans.
The site will be managed as a working ecological restoration project from day one. Food and nature-restoration activity will run alongside a programme of corporate team days, community events, market garden activities, eco therapy, forest schools and volunteer programmes.
The team would love to meet a landowner who shares commitment to restoring biodiversity and building human connection with the natural world.
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