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A Community Farm to Grow in

Moss Lane Farm is a community farm where people, nature, and ideas grow together. We grow food, nurture biodiversity, create opportunities to learn, connect, and thrive, and provide a place where communities can come together for hands-on education and food growing, as well as well-being, nature recovery, and environmental learning. The farm brings people closer to the land and to one another.

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A community-owned asset on Chat Moss where everyone is welcome.

Who it's for

Something for everyone

From cradle to grave there's a place for everyone at Moss Lane Farm. Families, schools, volunteers, members, businesses, school enterprises, and community organizations can all find ways to connect, contribute, and grow together.

Grow Food

Visit

Organic food growing, Heritage varieties, Traditional Orchards, Community growing, Learning about where food comes from.

Grow Nature

Get Involved

Protecting precious peatlands and wetlands, restoring habitats, planting trees, discovering nature through citizen science, and creating space for wildlife to thrive

Grow People

Take Part

Hands-on learning, Skills, Volunteering and opportunities, Alternative provision, SEN support, opportunities for people to build confidence

Grow Wellbeing

Connect

A natural space for connection, mental well-being, mindfulness, holistic practices, and community outreach

Grow climate awareness.

learn & Act

Growing climate literacy, inspiring practical climate action, and exploring sustainable food systems to help create a resilient sustainable future

Grow community.

Join us.

Bringing people, organisations, schools, and businesses together around the farm, connecting our local communities with national networks and knowledge, and creating a circular economy of shared resources, skills, and opportunities

Growing together

Food Grown by the Community

From market garden beds and polytunnels to our orchard, we grow organic food with people while caring for the precious peatland soils of Moss. We're building a resilient local food network by sharing knowledge, saving seeds, growing skills, and connecting our harvest with local communities and social enterprises.

🌱 Organic seasonal produce grown using regenerative methods
🌻Seed saving and practical skills to help people grow their own food
🤝Connecting growers, schools, communities, and local social enterprises through food

A young grower proudly holding freshly pulled beetroot

Nature & harvest

A Place That Gives Back

Caring for our peatlands, wetlands, and woodland, restoring habitats, recording the wildlife that calls the farm home, and sharing the harvest with our community

🪱Peatland, wetland, and habitat restoration
🦋Biodiversity monitoring and citizen science.
🥕Organic food grown and shared with our community
🌳Trees, woodland, and wildlife conservation.

A school group learning out in the fields, rain or shine

A farm with purpose

A working farm run by many hands

Twine at the ready in the market garden

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In motion

Life On The Farm

Real people getting stuck in, clearing, growing, harvesting, and caring for the land one session at a time. Real Days, Real People, Real Work.

Clearing the overgrowth along the fence line

Pulling the first carrots of the season

Mowing the meadow paths

Own the future

Together we can own the Farm

Moss Lane Farm is becoming a community-owned asset. Every share and donation helps bring the land into community hands and protect its future for generations to come.

£82,038of £1,200,000 goal

7% funded10 members and growing

£110k raised towards purchase
Commercial Mortgage Secured
Communitry Shares Offered

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Our impact

What Your Support Grows

Our impact is more than numbers. It's people reached, skills shared, food grown, nature restored, and social value created across Salford, measured and updated as our work grows.

🤝

4,820

Volunteer hours

+312 this month

🎒

125

School visits

6000+ pupils

🥬

0.7t

Food grown

to local people

🦋

3,104

Biodiversity records

212 species

🌍

2400

People engaged

across the year

💚

£82,038

Funds raised

of £186k goal

🌱

£69,890

Social Value

+312

300

trees planted

1.6 ha

habitat restored

102

species recorded

4.5 UNITS

BNG

Slow down

Nature speaks to every sense

Rub a leaf between your fingers and the moss introduces itself. That's how learning starts at Moss Lane Farm something picked, offered and shared, until the land stops being scenery and becomes a place you know.

“Here smell this.” Every good visit to the farm starts the same way.

Picked, and passed around

Nature recorder

A living map of the Chat Moss.

From the first butterfly to a rare bird sightings, every sighting logged through our app adds to a live growing picture of the wildlife and biodiversity around Moss Lane Farm, recorded by the people who experience it.

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“Land cared for, by many hands, for many generations.”
Moss Lane Farm is the beginning of something bigger. A community-owned farm growing into a landscape wild platform for Chat Moss and a living lab where people, nature, and new ideas can shape a greener tomorrow. Building on the foundations already rooted here, we're strengthening communities and co-designing a green future together. Because the future of Chat Moss shouldn't simply be planned for people, it should be co-designed and cared for by the local people who call it home.

Be part of the future of Chat Moss

Visit, volunteer, become a member, partner with us, or invest in our future. Together we can grow Moss Lane Farm as a community-owned asset and play our part in shaping a more connected future for Chat Moss. Where people, communities, and nature can thrive together

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From the farm

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28 August 2026

August 2026 Newsletter

August 2026 Newsletter What a Summer it has been 🌞 Summer HAF 2026 🌱 What a blast! We've had an amazing Summer HAF on the farm, filled with food, fun, nature, learning, imagination and lots of wo

27 August 2026

Summer HAF 2026 : Growing, Learning & Having fun on the Farm

17 July 2026

From the ground up – Moss Lane Farm in The Lapwing

Moss Lane Farm features in the Winter 2025 issue of The Lapwing, in a piece on the Great Manchester Wetlands Land Managers’ Group.

A school group on a visit to Moss Lane Farm

17 October 2025

The Secret Life Project is about bringing biodiversity to life in schools

How connecting children to local landscapes like Chat Moss is helping them understand food, nature and their place within it Jannine talks to School Food Matters.

5 April 2023

"Plant Your Pants"

Why healthy soil matters, and how Moss Lane Farm is getting involved in The Country Trust’s Plant Your Pants campaign.

17 September 2021

My Food Community supports good food champions to thrive

My Food Community alumna Jannine McMahon was invited to speak at the Oxford Farming Conference about her organic community farm in Salford.

Bringing the story of Moss Lane Farm to life

Our digital partner

Eighty Four

Software developers

Eightyfour Degrees Software Studios have helped us transform how we tell our story, bringing the people, nature, food, and community of Moss Lane Farm to life through film, design, and digital innovation. Together we created our farm app, a living connection that brings people together, captures nature and live data, and opens new opportunities for communities, businesses, and social enterprises to connect with the farm and the wider story of Chat Moss

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