Everything anybody has actually asked.

No, and the distinction is the entire architecture of this family. You buy a stated quantity of produce at a fixed price and receive it in kind. There is no cash return, no profit share and no resale market, because that would be an unauthorised collective investment scheme under section 235 of FSMA 2000.

You do not. A patch is a name and a number attached to a forward sale. No tenancy, no exclusive possession, no interest in the land, and no right to walk on it unaccompanied.

You get the substitution named on the page before you paid, or a credit against next season — whichever you chose at purchase. In 2025 it triggered on the durum and most of the barley.

At harvest, which is when harvest happens rather than when a calendar says it should. We tell you the window, and then we tell you the date about six hours before the combine moves.

Before drilling, yes, in full. After drilling, no, because the cost has been incurred. That is stated here rather than in a schedule.

No, and we are not going to pretend it is. A quarter acre of spring barley makes considerably more beer than that. Your allocation is a fixed quantity set at purchase; the rest of the crop goes into the same lorry as everything else. If it were a share of the yield, your return would depend on the harvest, and that changes what this is legally.

Stoneground wholemeal has the germ in it, the germ has oil in it, and oil goes rancid at about three months. The grain keeps for years; the flour does not.

Yes, from the shop, and it takes about four pounds off the price of the wheat and rather more off the potatoes.

Almost nobody can. Take the hedgerow patch, or split the potato bed with somebody, or nominate two addresses.

On the annual open day, accompanied. Not otherwise, because it is a working farm with a combine in it and our insurer takes a firm view.

A7 for barley, B2 for wheat, D2 for hedge. The prices already reflect it, which is why A4 is fifteen pounds cheaper than A7.

No. It is a rectangle on a plan and a marker on a camera frame. Marking it physically would imply a demised parcel, which is the thing it must not be.

Existing patches are honoured to the end of the season out of the crop that is in the ground, and no new ones are sold. That obligation sits with the seller, not with you.

Because in FCA v Capital Alternatives, plots were sold individually, returns were plot-specific and there was no pooling — and the court still held it was a collective investment scheme, because the plots were managed as a whole. Around £16.9 million was raised from 2,021 investors and all of it was lost. That case is the reason this product pays in flour.

You could if this were structured badly. Under Street v Mountford, exclusive possession plus rent plus a term makes a tenancy whatever it is called, and an agricultural tenancy could reduce the land value by twenty to forty per cent. Hence no exclusive possession, ever.

Neither. It is a page about flour on an unofficial demonstration build, and no money changes hands anywhere on this site.

UK financial services counsel, agricultural tenancy counsel, planning and tax advice, before a single patch was sold. This build has had none of them.