Our story
The farm has been in the family since 1962. It has been a dairy, a sheep farm and, for the past seventeen years, a place where other people’s children come to get muddy.
1962
A dairy herd and a leaky barn
Ted and Joan took on the tenancy with thirty cows, a second-hand tractor and the hay barn that is now the café. They milked twice a day for the next twenty-five years.
1987
The next generation
Their son David and his wife Ruth took over, added the sheep flock and planted most of the hedges you walk beside today.
2009
The gate opens
With milk prices falling, David and Ruth’s daughter Hannah and her husband Rob sold the dairy herd and tried something new: an open weekend at lambing time. Four hundred people came. The farm has welcomed visitors every season since.
2016
A first farm Christmas
Two borrowed reindeer and a shed dressed as a workshop. It rained for nine days and sold out anyway. The reindeer herd is now six, and the workshop has a proper roof.
Today
Still a family farm
Hannah and Rob run the farm with their three children, a team of twelve and Ruth, who still does the books and most of the baking.
The family
We both grew up on farms and neither of us planned to run a visitor attraction. What we wanted was to keep this one going, and it turned out that sharing it was the way to do that.
You will find one of us on the gate most mornings and both of us in the lambing shed in spring. Come and say hello.
Hannah and Rob
What we care about
Four things we try to get right before anything else.
Animals first
Every animal has space, shelter and time away from visitors. Handling sessions are short and nobody is made to perform.
Room for wildlife
Two miles of hedge, a wet meadow we leave alone and barn owl boxes in the old cart shed. The owls moved in the second winter.
Honest food
Eggs from our hens, sausages from the butcher in the next village and cakes baked here each morning. The menu is short on purpose.
Treading lightly
Solar panels on the big shed roof, rainwater for the troughs and a compost heap the size of a bus.
How your visit helps
The farm no longer makes a living from milk or lamb alone. Your ticket is what keeps it a farm. Here is where it goes.
- Feed, bedding and the vet for around sixty animals, every day of the year
- Laying hedges and mending fences each winter
- School visits in term time, at a price that covers the bus and little else
- Wages for local people, many in their first job
Come and see for yourself
Winter at the farm runs from 28 November to 23 December 2026. Choose your date and start time and book without leaving this website.