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Image by Mark Dinsdale
Welcome to Loveland
Rooted in our unique location, we promote and celebrate culture, ritual & history through the seasons. An 8 acre field in Penryn for everyone to enjoy. A place to reconnect with nature and each other through work, education and play. To grow, cook, and eat together. Encouraging small acts of local leadership, this is a space to make happy mistakes, learn by doing, dream green and make good things happen. Together, we are growing a rich, resourceful and resilient community that enjoys creating a positive future.
The Loveland community field project offers an open and welcoming space to encourage local people to get more involved in the growing of our food through working, learning and gathering together with a collective spirit that welcomes all.
We gather the ideas and feedback of the local community through events and volunteer sessions, delving into the possibilities of what this big field can become. Everyone’s ideas and energy are welcome at Loveland.
Loveland Newsletter
If you'd like to keep up to date with what's going on at the field, you can sign up to our newsletter HERE and you can see previous months' newsletters on the links below:
October 2024 // September 2024 // July 2024 // June 2024 // May 2024 // March 2024 // February 2024 // January 2024 // December 2023 // November 2023 // October 2023 // September 2023 // August 2023 // July 2023 // June 2023 // May 2023 // April 2023 // March 2023
Join our supporters
Give a one off donation
If you'd like to make a one off donation to the Loveland project please click the button below.
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If you'd like to support the project financially please click the button below to give £5 a month. We rely on these donations to keep the field up and running, for rent costs, insurance, field maintenance and communications.
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Thank you to everyone who supports Loveland through these donations it really makes all the difference and if you aren't able to donate financially that's not a problem. Everyone is welcome to be a part of Loveland and contribute with their time, love and smiles too!
If you've got any spare tools for the garden or shed, we'd love them! Please get in touch loveland@falmouthfood.coop.
Keep an eye out on our Instagram page @falmouthfoodcoop to see what is happening or stay in the know through the Loveland newsletter by joining our mailing list - see in footer.
Volunteering
Come and join in on a Wednesday (10-3pm) or Saturday (10-3pm) volunteer session where sitting and enjoying the sunny view is just as encouraged as picking up a spade, hoe or seed to plant! Please email loveland@falmouthfood.coop if you’d like to be added to the volunteer email list for a weekly update on what’s happening.
Since Loveland began in 2021, it has grown from a simple sunny field into a sanctuary for a whole host of subgroups within the wider Loveland project. These groups and projects have emerged from the ambitions of Loveland volunteers brought to life through the Loveland field and the opportunities it provides for our community to flourish. Check out each of the Loveland subgroups in the menu - See something you like the sound of? Don’t be shy, get in touch to get stuck in!
If you'd like to propose a project in partnership with Loveland please fill in our project proposal form HERE. All proposals are reviewed by the steering group at our next monthly meeting.
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Loveland Steering Group
Our Aims, Intentions & Purpose
- To enhance wellbeing by providing an inclusive welcoming space for joy, connection to ourselves, the land and each other,
- To nurture community resilience through participatory action and shared experience that benefits our local ecosystems and economies
- To produce local food, contributing to food security: raising awareness of and accessibility to healthy nutritional food.
- To significantly improve the condition of the land as a space for education and learning: where people of all ages and abilities can learn to grow, prepare, cook and eat delicious and nutritious food
- To encourage and increase biodiversity on the land through nature conservation and the creation of healthy ecosystems for plants and wildlife
We are currently reviewing and developing the role of the Steering Group, how we make decisions, our culture and values, roles and responsibilities, and how we work with the rest of the Falmouth Food Co-op. Watch this space for more information.
How to find us
We look forward to seeing you up at the field and hearing your ideas and feedback.
Here is a pin on Google Maps to help you find us. We encourage walking where possible as parking is in rather short supply at the field. The entrance to Loveland leaves the riverside footpath at roughly What3Words ///ankle.pupils.ground.
Email loveland@falmouthfood.coop to find out how to get involved.
Let’s get our hands dirty – grow an orchard, a forest garden, fresh salads, flowers,
vegetables and herbs and leave room around us for wildlife to return.
With thanks to George for the lovely photographs which you'll see on our Loveland pages. Through ongoing photographic work at Loveland Community Field, George Steedman Jones has created a multimedia document of the land through the seasons. This project is a collaboration between the photographer, our community growing space and the people who care for it. It explores and comments on seasonality, food sovereignty, community wealth and resilience and adaptation to climate breakdown. The philosophy of this project is low-impact and land-friendly.
George has also collaborated with researchers to edit interviews with volunteers into a mini podcast series, entitled 'Plen an Powes'