Take a field for the season.
A fixed price, paid once, and what grows on that ground comes to you in kind. Not an investment, not a profit share, and emphatically not a security — a forward purchase of produce, which is a completely different thing and the only version of this that is legal.
Read this before anything else
Plotting is a fixed-price forward purchase of produce, delivered in kind. It is not an investment, there is no cash return, no profit share, and no secondary market. We are emphatic about this because the alternative — paying people a cash share of a harvest they had no hand in managing — is an unauthorised collective investment scheme under section 235 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, and a criminal offence.
How plotting actually works.
Choose a patch and a crop
From what this ground can realistically grow. Barley, wheat, durum, oats, potatoes, oilseed rape, echium, hedgerow or wildflower.
Pay a fixed price, once
Set at the point of purchase and never varied afterwards. Your money is ring-fenced until the crop is delivered.
We plant it
Kaleb’s team drills it with everything else, because a quarter acre farmed separately would be farmed badly.
You watch it grow
Photographs, a geotag, growth-stage updates and the field cameras. This is the part people actually come back for.
You get the produce
Delivered in kind — beer, flour, pasta, oats, potatoes, oil or jam depending on what you chose.
If it fails, the shared-risk policy triggers
Substitute produce from the wider farm, or a partial refund, exactly as agreed before you paid. Not a surprise, and not buried.
What you can take.
Twenty-eight patches, six plots, four animals and four boxes.
Pick a numbered quarter acre in a named field, and follow it from the drill to the door.
The original six: a quarter acre of barley, a wheat run, a potato bed, a strip of rape,…
A hive, a ewe, a pig or a Beef Shorthorn, for a season.
The store cupboard, monthly. Or the whole estate, quarterly.
Why the structure matters more than the product.
The obvious version of this — rent a plot, we sell the crop, you get a share of the cash — is an unauthorised collective investment scheme under section 235 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000. Operating or promoting one is a criminal offence.
That is not a theoretical risk. In FCA v Capital Alternatives, investors bought sub-leases of rice-farm plots in Sierra Leone and received the profit from the sale of the rice grown on their own plot. Returns were plot-specific, with no pooling. The court found it was a scheme anyway, because the plots were "managed as a whole". Around £16.9 million was raised from 2,021 investors. All of them lost it.
So this is built the other way round. You buy goods, at a fixed price, delivered in kind. There is no cash return, no profit share, no pooling, no secondary market and no conversion into one. It is a forward sale, and a forward sale of goods is not a security no matter how it is marketed.
- s.235
- FSMA 2000
- £16.9m
- lost in Capital Alternatives
- In kind
- how you are paid
And when it fails?
In 2025 drought took thirty per cent of the wheat and forty per cent of the barley. That is the ordinary risk of arable farming and you are sharing it.
Everything in Plotting.
Patches for the coming season.
There are only so many quarter-acres, and they are allocated in the order people take them. One email when the next season opens.
- One email when the season opens
- Nothing in between
- And the honest yield numbers afterwards, good or bad
