At Jubilee Farm, we practice Creation Care. This ethos combines sustainable agriculture with conservation so that when we produce food, we are doing so in a way that allows everything to flourish. 

We see the flora, fauna and soil itself within one interconnected ecosystem, together with us as people. If they are all to thrive in the long-term, we need to care about the relationships between humans and the natural world.

The term ‘creation care’ also indicates that we do not see the world we live in as existing by chance, as a random set of biological and chemical interactions. Underlying our relationship to nature and each other is a response of gratitude to God as creator. 

We recognise that environmental and social relationships are in a bad way, and all of us have contributed to that one way or another. But because all things are reconciled in Christ, we work with the hope that these relationships can be restored and that all can find a home.

Jubilee Farm has a variety of habitats – woodland, grassland, scrub, hedgerows, river and farm buildings – where thousands of species have their homes (as well as a few humans). Creation Care means that we treat this place as our common home. Everybody is equally welcome to participate with us in this work, whether or not they share the same basis for Creation Care.

Since moving onto the site in 2019, we have carried out a wide variety of conservation activities. We have had two Bioblitz events, in which hundreds of members of the public learned about the richness of life here at Jubilee Farm, and dozens of plant and animal species were recorded. 

We have had numerous other public engagement and education events, which have been attended by members of the public, school children, community groups and political leaders. 

Everybody who experiences the farm leaves with experiences that change their perspective on the world around them, whether it’s the way they garden, how they eat, or which policies they should support!

Going forward, we have three main priorities:

More detailed monitoring of the flora and fauna species (as well as the soil composition) of the farm.
Development of key habitats (including grassland, scrub and hedgerows).
Further public engagement and education activities, centred around monitoring, habitat development and how this fits in with farming.