What if the most important piece of gear on the farm is you?
A healthy farm needs a healthy farmer. What if you took just a few minutes a day to take care of your inner acres with the same attention you give to your outer acres?Join our Inner Acres online landworker wellbeing community, learn simple yet profound tools to reduce stress, improve relationships and reconnect with your work and the land in ways that nourish you and your farm.
"This introduction to embodiment practice has been somewhat revelatory- it feels exactly what I need and given me a focus and direction towards what I believe will be deeply beneficial to me. I really appreciate the connections made between ourselves and the landwork that we do. I think the farming references were relevant, helpful and added another layer of feeling valued by the Inner Acres team."
Jo - Farmer, Devon
Get out of your head and back in your body
So much mental and physical ill health comes from spending too much time ruminating and overthinking and not enough time being in our bodies and connecting with ourselves, each other and the land from here.Inner Acres introduces you to practices and tools that allow you to land again, giving you a greater sense of inner space and peace, better capacity to make intuitive decisions, and a deeper sense of connection with the work you love.
"It was really helpful to have a daily practice to ground me. It was helpful to feel there was a community of other people out there feeling similar things. It was helpful to try different practices, and to start trying to tune into my gut and what it is telling me. To know there is a concerted effort happening to help farmers with their wellbeing felt reassuring."
Rachel - Community Market Gardener
Landworkers are under a lot of pressure
We worked with 100 farmers for a year during our pilot phase uncovering lots of issues landworkers face these days. Whether it be pressure of the relentless task list, the pressure you place on your body every day, government legislation and bureaucracy, the financial strain of market forces, modern isolating farming practices or an unstable and unpredictable climate, this is a community that gets it and gets you!
The Endless To Do List
Landworker Isolation
Undervaluing Farmer Health
Being With Unpredictability
"I almost treat my body like a machine. So like I chuck it some fuel in, grease the odd joint, and just assume and expect it to function day after day, and hour after hour, with paying the least amount of attention to it as I possibly can, and pretty much ignoring every single pain and ache, and just saying to myself: ‘Just man up and get over it’."
Will - Dairy Farmer
It's Time to make some positive changes
You'd be amazed what commiting just a few minutes per day to simple embodiment practices can yield in improvements to your stress levels, sleep quality, decision making, sense of meaning and belonging, quality of your relationships, ability to adapt to unpredictability and so much more...
"I am learning to be more accepting of scenarios where I can't control and won't know all the answers or solutions and to go with the flow a bit more and trust and accept the unknowns. It's hard but my nervous system is slowly able to start surrendering to uncertainty. "
Hayley - Landworker
How the Inner Acres community works
Inner Acres is a completely FREE online landworker wellbeing community of practice. It's been designed with the input of farmers, growers and landworkers across the UK and beyond. By joining the community you have access to:
+ A highly effective 5-week wellbeing course including short audio-only talks and useful guided practices.
+ A friendly online community forum of landworkers supporting each other through ups and downs.
+ A monthly live Zoom gathering where you can connect, practice and talk with each other.
"So much calmer and able to ground and regulate. Feel like this programme really understands me! Even when I can't fully practice or respond to a session I can find something to help. Can't wait to fully complete the course and really enrich myself."
Zoe - Grower
Adding you to your to-do list will transform your wellbeing
Check on your farm. Check in with yourself.Inner Acres offers simple tools created for landworkers to practise outdoors as part of everyday farm life. The audio-only course is available through an app on your phone, so "checking on" your animals or crops can also become a moment to "check in" with yourself.Outer Acres. Inner Acres.This rhythm helps you notice pressure before it becomes overwhelming, creating space to farm with greater calm, presence and awareness.With regular practice, you can:+ Ease internal pressure and notice more around you.+ Respond thoughtfully rather than react.+ Strengthen relationships with people, livestock and the land.+ Stay more attentive to fatigue and distraction.+ Trust your intuition alongside your rational mind.+ Build the groundedness to navigate change.Healthy food systems begin with healthy, flourishing farmers.Join a community of landworkers practising inner work for outer change—supporting themselves and the people, animals, plants and land in their care.
"I’m easier on my own body, can do some of the learnt practices to calm myself down, and am spending more time with my loved ones."
