From the classroom to the fields
Julia Martin began her working life as a primary school teacher, became an education advisor at the Natural History Museum, taught in Asia — and then came home to Devon to study wildlife photography at Exeter University's Falmouth campus.
Her family has worked Devon land for generations, and since 2003 that caretaker ethos has had a home at Borough Farm: eighteen acres of woodland and pasture farmed without pesticides or artificial fertilisers, where weeds are cut by hand and the animals fertilise the fields themselves.
Guests aren't a sideline here — they're part of the farm's rhythm. Julia welcomes everyone personally, advises honestly on which stay will suit, and loves nothing more than sharing the natural world on her doorstep: the dawn chorus, the dark skies, a newly hatched chick in a child's cupped hands.
