Environmental practice
How the farm is cared for
Not a badge on the door — the way the place has been run since long before guests came. Evidence below, adjectives kept to a minimum.
Not a badge on the door — the way the place has been run since long before guests came. Evidence below, adjectives kept to a minimum.
Environmental practice isn't bolted onto this business — it's where the business came from. Julia taught the natural world before she farmed it, and the farm runs the way she taught it: look after your planet, starting with your own eighteen acres.
The full policy below is reviewed periodically — this page was last revised in 2026.
Eighteen acres farmed organically since 2003 — no pesticides, no plough.
The farm sits on a spring line and uses its own well.
Solar on the barn roof; wood from the valley and our own land.
The barns were restored with salvage, not catalogues.
Breakfast starts within sight of your bed.
Line-dried in the Devon wind — no tumble driers.
Careful systems on a farm that deals with its own waste.
Ponds dug, trees planted, wildflowers sown.
Small schemes that add up.
Join in as much or as little as you like.
The practices above aren't finished — they're how the farm runs this year. If you've an idea worth trying, or want to ask how something here is done, Julia would like to hear it. Improvement is part of the practice.
Line-dried linen, wood-fired heat, breakfast from the hens — the policy is nicer to sleep in than to read.
Level throughout, with a wet room and easterly light.
A roll-top bath, and the hills through the window.
The courtyard barn, with room for a dog.
The only stay with The Loft to itself.
One yurt, its own field and its own wood-fired hot tub.