Derrybeg farm: sustainable agriculture managed by and for farm members
The aim of Derrybeg Farm is to integrate community and agriculture in a mixed, biodiverse, sustainable and environmentally responsible farm, managed for the benefit of everyone involved.
Are you interested in:
- Good quality, organically grown and affordable local food, but don’t have time or space to grow your own?
- Organic farming methods that increase biodiversity?
- Investment in the local economy and community?
- Supporting local employment?
- Helping people who have not traditionally been involved in farming to work as farmers?
- Food security for the locality in the future, especially as food prices rise in tandem with fuel prices?
- Meeting other people in your locality who have similar interests?
Derrybeg farm provides all of these for the Celbridge / Maynooth / Leixlip / Lucan area.
Our ethos and values
We strive to:
- Support mixed, biodiverse, organic and sustainable agriculture that respects the earth and the people involved.
- Pioneer an economic model based on mutual benefit and shared risk and ensure that the farmers have a decent livelihood.
- Encourage practical involvement of the farm community members on all levels.
- Be transparent in all our affairs.
- Make decisions through deliberation and to reach genuine consensus wherever possible.
- Work towards social justice.
- Be participatory, collaborative and egalitarian and respect everybody who takes part
- Listen to all shades of opinion and all questions and doubts among our members.
- Discuss differences and work to accommodate them and benefit from them.
- Offer opportunities for learning about food and farming and for connection with the life of the earth.
- Network with others to promote community-supported agriculture in other communities and farms and to share our learning (social, economic and farming).
- Encourage members, in co-operation with the farmers, to use the farm for their individual and social activities and celebrations.
- Develop a sense of community around the farm.
- Achieve a financial situation where low income shall not exclude anyone.
- Work co-operatively with other enterprises that share our principles
