Our Tenants
The beauty of our collaborative model is that we are able to host several small businesses on one site simultaneously. Whilst the extraordinary costs of land and farm infrastructure would be prohibitive for each enterprise to assume individually, by pooling our resources together we are able to share the load and dramatically reduce costs for each project. We currently host four tenants who share our values and are providing food for the local community. They are pioneering farmers, growers, and entrepreneurs, below you can learn more about each tenant.
Stroud Micro Dairy
Stroud Micro Dairy is Oakbrook Farm’s largest tenant and the UK’s first dairy co-operative. Founded in 2017 by a farmers son with a vision that farming could have a positive impact on the environment. SMD farm 30 of Oakbrook’s 42 acres and produce fresh, raw milk, kefir and yoghurt that members collect on site. Through their commitment to regenerative agriculture SMD are improving the health of our plants and soil, and pioneering the way in sustainable dairy by practicing cow with calf mob-grazing.
ZeroDig
Zerodig.Earth are championing the role of no-dig growing as the sustainable food growing system that rebuilds soils and protects the climate. The Zerodig.Earth team have a mission to set as many new small scale farmers as possible growing in a profitable, sustainable way. Through their one acre at Oakbrook Farm are proving that the Zerodig approach to producing food can be viable at scale.
Stroud Community Agriculture
Stroud Community Agriculture is a community led enterprise producing local, biodynamic meat and vegetables on 70 acres across Gloucestershire. Oakbrook Farm is proud to host just one of them!
Oakbrook Orchard
Oakbrook Orchard is an experimental agroforestry project growing fruit, flowers and community. They currently have approx 150 fruit trees, with plans for around 40 more to complete the field scale agroforestry system. Almost all the apple, pear and plum trees in the orchard were propagated in their own small nursery on the farm, and the first trees were planted in 2020. The land between the trees is grazed by the dairy cattle. The aim is to supply seasonal fruit and flowers through a community supported agriculture scheme.
