Corporate team-building sessions or away days

Come and spend time away from the office and gain:

Stronger relationships between team members through co-operating over tasks and having conversations while hands are busy.
Connection to nature in a beautiful setting in the Slad Valley.
A meaningful contribution: help with food growing and other activities that support sustainable food production and our local community.
A shared sense of achievement: get stuck in, learn something new and enjoy the satisfaction of doing a physical and useful task together.

Our team sessions bring people together through practical, purposeful activities. Working side-by-side on the farm creates a relaxed setting for conversations and connection.

Activities

We can host teams of two to 30 people between March and November for either a full-day or half-day session. Your session can include:

Food growing tasks guided by our skilled growers including digging, planting, harvesting and processing vegetables. These will be tailored to the group’s needs and we can provide less physical activities for those who require them (e.g. seed sowing, cooking, light weeding, plant labelling, veg box packing).
Farm tour including information about regenerative food growing techniques and our co-operative community-ownership model.
Outdoor games: if you want to add a little friendly competition, we can facilitate on-site outdoor games, such as rounders.
Delicious farm lunch: There’ll be no dry sandwiches here! Our main food grower is also a trained chef and will prepare a delicious lunch using produce grown on the farm, supplemented by food from other local organic or regenerative producers. You’ll eat together outdoors, enjoying good food and the surroundings.

There’s a real sense of community and fun at the farm, alongside the feeling of satisfaction in contributing to a more sustainable food production that feeds the local community. We find that some of the best team bonding happens naturally here. When people are outdoors, away from the usual pressures of work, and engaged in a shared, practical task, conversations flow and relationships develop in a relaxed and un-pressured way.

“The team had a fantastic day with you and came away feeling more connected.”
― CDW (technology company)

Costs

A session from 10am until 3pm for around 10 – 20 team members, including tea/coffee and lunch, has a charge of around £75 per head. This covers our time to plan the session, give a farm tour, staff support to ensure everyone can undertake meaningful tasks, provision of appropriate tools and the costs of refreshments and lunch.

Sessions of a shorter or longer duration or for fewer or more team members will have a different cost. We can also provide an outdoor space for meetings, with or without refreshments.

If you’re looking for a team day that’s fun, practical and genuinely meaningful, come to the farm and experience the difference that getting outdoors and working together can make.