Babbinswood Farm Community Benefit Society
@babbinswoodfarmcbs.bsky.social
We are saving an organic family farm and building a community hub
through community co-ownership.
through community co-ownership.
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Good Morning everyone, Christine and all of us @shrewsmorris wishing you all a brilliant Thursday. It’s practice night for us! Stay nice, stay kind and watch out for each other. Loving you all xxx🕺💃🪗😎
June 26, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Good Morning everyone, Christine and all of us @shrewsmorris wishing you all a brilliant Thursday. It’s practice night for us! Stay nice, stay kind and watch out for each other. Loving you all xxx🕺💃🪗😎
Interesting result of this poll - shows just how many people understand the importance of organic food:
June 8, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Interesting result of this poll - shows just how many people understand the importance of organic food:
We showed the film 'Six Inches of Soil' at the farm on Saturday - if you haven't seen it yet we will be showing it again in the future or you can rent it here: www.sixinchesofsoil.org
Six Inches of Soil
The inspiring story of British farmers standing up against the industrial food system and transforming the way they produce food - to heal the soil, benefit our health and provide for local communitie...
www.sixinchesofsoil.org
June 2, 2025 at 8:17 AM
We showed the film 'Six Inches of Soil' at the farm on Saturday - if you haven't seen it yet we will be showing it again in the future or you can rent it here: www.sixinchesofsoil.org
Happy World Milk Day
June 2, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Happy World Milk Day
Fantastic news, we have now raised the first £100,000 to save the community spaces at Babbinswood Farm by buying the farm and renting some of it back to the farmers. You can buy a share in this fantastic community project here: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-babbi...
June 1, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Fantastic news, we have now raised the first £100,000 to save the community spaces at Babbinswood Farm by buying the farm and renting some of it back to the farmers. You can buy a share in this fantastic community project here: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-babbi...
What an amazing experience! We hold truly hybrid board meetings. Some directors meet up, several join online, and this week Casha was in the barn (with laptop) and we watched as a new-born calf shakily stood up and had her first taste of milk. A meeting I shall never forget!
May 26, 2025 at 9:58 AM
What an amazing experience! We hold truly hybrid board meetings. Some directors meet up, several join online, and this week Casha was in the barn (with laptop) and we watched as a new-born calf shakily stood up and had her first taste of milk. A meeting I shall never forget!
Thank you @bbcnews.bsky.social Casha, the cows and the CBS are in the BBC news!!
😁 See the article here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
😁 See the article here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Babbinswood farm in Shropshire aims to save ‘cow and calf' dairy
The farm near Oswestry is selling shares to the community to protect holistic milking methods.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 25, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Thank you @bbcnews.bsky.social Casha, the cows and the CBS are in the BBC news!!
😁 See the article here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
😁 See the article here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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We had the most fabulous weather here in Glastonbury to celebrate Beltane. Blessings from the heart of Avalon. Part 1 as more photos to follow. #glastonbury #glastonburytor #Beltane #MayDay
May 1, 2025 at 7:52 AM
We had the most fabulous weather here in Glastonbury to celebrate Beltane. Blessings from the heart of Avalon. Part 1 as more photos to follow. #glastonbury #glastonburytor #Beltane #MayDay
On #EarthDay2025 please help save our organic farm: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-babbi...
April 22, 2025 at 2:10 PM
On #EarthDay2025 please help save our organic farm: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-babbi...
Thank you @shropshirelive.bsky.social for this lovely article explaining why we need to save this organic farm and the community it supports, buy some buttercups here: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-babbi...
April 1, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Thank you @shropshirelive.bsky.social for this lovely article explaining why we need to save this organic farm and the community it supports, buy some buttercups here: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-babbi...
Just a quick thank you to the BBC for telling our story:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#organicfarming #saveourfarm #PlantsPeoplePlanet
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#organicfarming #saveourfarm #PlantsPeoplePlanet
Community farm appeal needs £1.4m by April or land will be sold
An appeal to buy part of Babbinswood Farm has to raise £1.4m by the end of the month.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Just a quick thank you to the BBC for telling our story:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#organicfarming #saveourfarm #PlantsPeoplePlanet
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#organicfarming #saveourfarm #PlantsPeoplePlanet
#EarthHour
This evening, at 8.30 pm UK time, landmarks across the world switch off their lights for @WWF #EarthHour2025
To join in - switch off your lights and connect with nature around the world and the buttercups on this organic farm crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-babbi...
This evening, at 8.30 pm UK time, landmarks across the world switch off their lights for @WWF #EarthHour2025
To join in - switch off your lights and connect with nature around the world and the buttercups on this organic farm crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-babbi...
March 22, 2025 at 2:39 PM
#EarthHour
This evening, at 8.30 pm UK time, landmarks across the world switch off their lights for @WWF #EarthHour2025
To join in - switch off your lights and connect with nature around the world and the buttercups on this organic farm crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-babbi...
This evening, at 8.30 pm UK time, landmarks across the world switch off their lights for @WWF #EarthHour2025
To join in - switch off your lights and connect with nature around the world and the buttercups on this organic farm crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-babbi...
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24 Feb - free online event. Do join us… www.ukscs.coop/events/co-op... #coops @ukcoopstudies.bsky.social
Co-operative conversation with Matt Otridge
Feb 24, 2025
www.ukscs.coop
February 19, 2025 at 7:54 AM
24 Feb - free online event. Do join us… www.ukscs.coop/events/co-op... #coops @ukcoopstudies.bsky.social
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JCS is and open access journal published three times a year. We welcome contributions on most aspects of co-operation, co-operative management, governance and leadership, and related subject areas, in relation to a range of co-operative sectors. www.ukscs.coop/pages/submis...
January 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
JCS is and open access journal published three times a year. We welcome contributions on most aspects of co-operation, co-operative management, governance and leadership, and related subject areas, in relation to a range of co-operative sectors. www.ukscs.coop/pages/submis...
Support this example of regenerative agriculture - organic farming involving the community - farming for purpose not profit:
February 21, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Support this example of regenerative agriculture - organic farming involving the community - farming for purpose not profit:
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'There are millions of people ... who are engaged in practices that, if sufficiently coordinated, could lead to a radical transformation”
Cooperation Jackson launches an online series on building #ecosocialism from below
#Jackson #Mississippi #coops
Cooperation Jackson launches an online series on building #ecosocialism from below
#Jackson #Mississippi #coops
Cooperation Jackson launches online series to 'build ecosocialism from below'
Cooperation Jackson says the Build and Fight Formula “is an argument and a proposed methodology on how to build eco-socialism from below"
www.thenews.coop
February 19, 2025 at 12:47 PM
'There are millions of people ... who are engaged in practices that, if sufficiently coordinated, could lead to a radical transformation”
Cooperation Jackson launches an online series on building #ecosocialism from below
#Jackson #Mississippi #coops
Cooperation Jackson launches an online series on building #ecosocialism from below
#Jackson #Mississippi #coops
Buy some buttercups! Buy a share in this organic farm to save these buttercups from destruction.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-babbi...
#OrganicFarming #CommunityOwnership #SaveOurFarm
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-babbi...
#OrganicFarming #CommunityOwnership #SaveOurFarm
February 18, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Buy some buttercups! Buy a share in this organic farm to save these buttercups from destruction.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-babbi...
#OrganicFarming #CommunityOwnership #SaveOurFarm
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-babbi...
#OrganicFarming #CommunityOwnership #SaveOurFarm
Buy some buttercups! Buy a share in this organic farm to save these buttercups from destruction.
February 13, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Buy some buttercups! Buy a share in this organic farm to save these buttercups from destruction.
Thank you
@WWOOF
World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms for your support
#OrganicFarming #CommunityOwnership #FarmHeritage #SaveOurFarm #SupportLocalFarms #BritishFarm
@WWOOF
World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms for your support
#OrganicFarming #CommunityOwnership #FarmHeritage #SaveOurFarm #SupportLocalFarms #BritishFarm
February 12, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Thank you
@WWOOF
World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms for your support
#OrganicFarming #CommunityOwnership #FarmHeritage #SaveOurFarm #SupportLocalFarms #BritishFarm
@WWOOF
World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms for your support
#OrganicFarming #CommunityOwnership #FarmHeritage #SaveOurFarm #SupportLocalFarms #BritishFarm
Thanks for your support
Best of luck @babbinswoodfarmcbs.bsky.social
February 12, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Thanks for your support
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As a consequence, people are exceeding daily energy intake requirements because their bodies crave micronutrients. Couple this with food desserts and it's the public health crisis of diet related problems hitting our hospitals.
“Sadly, each successive generation of fast-growing, pest-resistant carrot is truly less good for you than the one before…chalk up this declining nutritional content to the preponderance of agricultural practices designed to improve traits…other than nutrition.” #SoilDepletion #vitamins
Dirt Poor: Have Fruits and Vegetables Become Less Nutritious?
Because of soil depletion, crops grown decades ago were much richer in vitamins and minerals than the varieties most of us get today
www.scientificamerican.com
February 11, 2025 at 8:49 AM
As a consequence, people are exceeding daily energy intake requirements because their bodies crave micronutrients. Couple this with food desserts and it's the public health crisis of diet related problems hitting our hospitals.
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Liv's raw and confronting story mirrors the experiences of many farmers and growers across the UK right now. Her piece for Wicked Leeks tells her story - the highs and lows - and provides many lessons.
🙏Thanks for sharing your story Liv wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/features/far...
🙏Thanks for sharing your story Liv wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/features/far...
Farm Stories: Down Farm Market Garden, Devon
The first in a new series of Farm Stories – celebrating the highs and lows of a one acre Market Garden, which couldn’t weather every storm…
wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk
January 24, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Liv's raw and confronting story mirrors the experiences of many farmers and growers across the UK right now. Her piece for Wicked Leeks tells her story - the highs and lows - and provides many lessons.
🙏Thanks for sharing your story Liv wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/features/far...
🙏Thanks for sharing your story Liv wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/features/far...