The Plot Terms.
The forward-sale terms, written to be read. This is the most legally consequential page on the site and it is therefore the one written most plainly.
Plotting terms and conditions
Every section, in plain English.
Goods. A fixed quantity of produce, at a fixed price, delivered in kind. You are not buying land, a lease, a licence to occupy, a share, a security, or any right to a cash return of any kind.
Any interest in land. Any exclusive possession. Any share of profit. Any cash return. Any tradeable instrument. There is no secondary market and no mechanism by which one could arise.
Because a scheme in which passive participants receive a cash return from the sale of a crop that is managed as a whole is a collective investment scheme under section 235 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000. Operating or promoting an unauthorised one is a criminal offence under section 23.
The farm retains full management control of the ground and full access to it at all times. Your plot is a promise about produce, not a demised parcel — which is also what prevents the arrangement from accidentally creating an agricultural tenancy under Street v Mountford and the Agricultural Tenancies Act 1995.
Both the farm and you share the risk of crop failure due to weather, pests and acts of God. You agree to this before you pay. If the crop fails you receive substitute produce of equivalent value or a partial refund, and you choose which at the point of purchase.
Prepayments are ring-fenced until produce is delivered. Paying by card also gives you Section 75 protection under the Consumer Credit Act for purchases between £100 and £30,000, plus chargeback rights.
A full refund any time before the crop is drilled. After drilling, the cost has been incurred and there is no refund. That is stated plainly here rather than discovered later.
We do not and will not market this on yield, return or investment performance. If you ever see us do so, that is a mistake and we would like to be told.
This is a demonstration build. Any real version of this product would require sign-off from UK financial-services, agricultural-tenancy, planning and tax counsel before a single plot was sold.
Written to be read
Not to be survived.
Reasons attached
Every rule says why.
Your rights intact
Nothing here reduces statutory rights.
Ask if unclear
And it gets rewritten.
The short version.
The forward-sale terms, written to be read. This is the most legally consequential page on the site and it is therefore the one written most plainly.
If any of this is unclear, ask, and it will be rewritten. Several of these pages reached their current wording because somebody said they could not follow the old one.
Everything else in Lawyering.
Ten pages, all written the same way.
A reminder
This is a demonstration build. It is not affiliated with, authorised or endorsed by any of the businesses it describes, and commerce on it is a placeholder that takes no payment.
What people actually ask.
The two questions this page gets most, answered without a support ticket.
Bothering Us, and we would rather hear it than not.
No. It is a plain-English account of how this build behaves, written to be read rather than survived. It has not been reviewed by a solicitor.
