A COMMUNITY farm at Chagford is getting on the 'crowdfunding' bandwagon — in an effort to expand its raw goats' milk dairy.

Chagfarm aims to make the local community's food supply more resilient by working closely with Chagfood, another local food enterprise, and complementing their existing vegetable subscription offer.

Chagfarm does this by offering local goat dairy products and honey, as well as high-welfare goat meat, pork, woodland poultry, lamb, beef, venison and game.

Crowdfunding is a way of raising capital through small amounts of money via a large group of people, usually via the internet.

Farm directors Sylvan and Davon Friend have launched an eight week crowdfunding campaign seeking £15,000 for more farming equipment and facilities to expand the goats' milk dairy and ensure the continued resilience of the food supply.

If they successfully raise £15,000, they will be able to build a milking parlour for the goats, construct a cheese cave to enable production of Chagfarm's own uniquely flavoured cheese, carry out essential repair work on the farm roofs, and invest in solar panels which will provide electricity to the farm, which is currently without mains electricity.

After successfully achieving its first year targets of turning over £12,000, the team is now on a mission to show their business model is financially viable by recruiting an additional 25 members by April.

To find out more about the scheme, visit the website at http://www.chagfarm.org">www.chagfarm.org