TOWN councillors have pledged £500 to a trust which is hoping to buy farmland and turn it into a community asset.
At a meeting of Stroud Town Council on Monday night, councillors agreed to contribute the money for two shares in the Biodynamic Land Trust, which wants to secure Hammonds Farm.
The purchase of the site also protects it from housing development.
Volunteers at the Biodynamic Land Trust must raise £360,000 to buy the near Hawkwood College in Stroud.
They want to run it as a co-owned, community farm.
Hammonds Farm surrounds Hawkwood College and is approximately 180 acres with a farmhouse and farm buildings.
It is to be sold off in three lots – with The Biodynamic Land Trust proposing to buy lot three as a community farm.
This consists of around 41.12 acres of land, West of Hawkwood College on Wick Street.
To find out more visit biodynamiclandtrust.org.uk.
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