Discover your perfect Devon Farms Holiday
Our guests should be feeling festive here at Farwood Barton, as Christmas trees are already adorning our self-catering cottages ready for your family get-togethers. We still have some weekends available so check our bookings page for more details (http://www.farwoodbarton-holiday-cottages.co.uk/price.html). A bottle…
It’s that time of year when the ewe’s are brought in from the fields and into the lambing sheds ready for lambing. Today we walked the last of them home. Our first two pure poll Dorset lambs from our new…
As the traditional ‘Stir Up Sunday’ fast approaches (22nd November), why not try this delicious Christmas pudding recipe, provided by Anne Boldry of Newhouse Farm: Ingredients: 75g suet 40g self raising flour 75g fresh breadcrumbs 1 tsp mixed spice ½…
With the Rams starting to strut their stuff and curl their top lip in anticipation of what lies ahead, I knew it was time to make sure my Jacobs ewes were fit and ready for “tupping” time. (I love that…
It’s the start of the shooting season and once again gundog owners and their dogs get out the dummies for a brush-up on various retrieval routines. Not all gundogs, though, welcome dummy training and our spaniels, the Springers; Jessie and…
This week, we have taken a lovely blog post from one of our farms, Little Comfort Farm, who recently held a charity open garden day. You can read all about it here… We were blessed with one of those wonderful,…
This week, we have a wonderful blog post from a recent guest at one of our farms. You can read all about his experience here. My wife Caroline and I drove down from Scotland to stay at Smallicombe Farm for…
Possession, they say, is nine tenths of the law, and that is certainly true for a dog and its bone. Our young Clumber spaniel, Holly, found a really delicious bone in one of our fields. It was long and straight,…
Bruce, our sheepdog, really earned his keep today! I was checking the fields where the lambs are currently grazing, Higher and Lower Cleave, and the whole flock seemed to be happily munching away in the lower field. However, since lambs…
We had a great reaction to our last blog post about our beautiful dogs and so we thought we would share one of our most recent anecdotes with you here… My plan of lifting our main crop spuds in September…