Chloe got a taste for growing while working in the gardens of a small community project in Laos, growing food for volunteers and local staff. From here she immersed herself in learning about permaculture and visited different sustainable projects, natural building communities and organic smallholdings in SE Asia. When Chloe came home she sought out a new career that connected her with the land and community and actively sought to make better the social, environmental and economic challenges faced across the world. In growing food Chloe has found the perfect balance of purposeful, practical work, endless learning opportunities and ever changing days filled with deliciousness. After meeting as growing apprentices Daylesford Organics, Chloe and Josh traveled to New Zealand to visit and volunteer on highly productive small scale farms. When they came back to the UK we joined a large field scale farm and learnt how to grow veg with tractors to fill over 300 veg boxes a week. Then in 2018 Josh and Chloe set up a terraced 1/8th acre agroecological market garden in Buckfastleigh growing veg, microgreens, herbs and cut flowers to sell at Exeter Farmers Market, shops and restaurants and through a small veg box scheme. Liv, Henry, Chloe and Josh met a few years back throughout the wider market gardening community in the South West. We have stayed in touch and over the years become friends. Chloe and Josh came to join Henry and Liv at Down Farm in 2022 an we have been working collaboratively since!