Our Offer

We’re building a future for the beautiful 2000 hectare Luppitt valley within the Blackdown Hills National Landscape, where livestock farming will help restore natural diversity, store carbon and create climate resilience, through a farmer-led collaborative venture across a patchwork of small, traditional land holdings.

We are actively seeking private sector support for this innovative approach to farming with nature, for the common good.

With a foundation in Luppitt’s long heritage of common land management, we’re now treading new ground, working collaboratively to generate real gains for nature, and for the river catchment we occupy, while supporting family farming to produce high quality food in a working landscape.

Our work will sustain the four vital layers of our landscape: a productive plateau, where we will build healthy soils that support regenerative farming; a wildlife-rich springline zone, where we will restore wetland vegetation to store carbon and moderate the flow of water; a diverse, sustainably-farmed lower valley; and a wild river corridor, with resident beavers helping to nurture a clean and cherished River Love.

And we will create a fifth layer – a network of collaboration where farmers and non-farmers work together to nurture the landscape, sharing knowledge, resources and equipment, and supporting training and education.

We will pursue our goals with the support of DEFRA’s Landscape Recovery programme, receiving a proportion of our costs from public money for delivering ‘public goods’ – a wildlife-rich, healthy natural environment.

To unlock our ambitions however, we need to secure private investment and financial support to complement what the state will provide.

We believe the Luppitt Landscape Partnership is showing the way towards a brighter future for farming with nature, together, for the common good. We welcome expressions of interest in supporting our work.