fairway-lodge.co.uk
Fairway Lodge set in the centre of Devon
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Find us in the Bed and Breakfast Directory. B&B Hotel and Guest Accommodation Worldwide. Click Bed and Breakfast. Bed and Breakfast UK. Crealy Great Adventure Park. Tel: 44 1837 55122.
southyeofarmwest.co.uk
Training - South Yeo Farm West: smallholding courses, rare breed & pedigree livestock & meat boxes
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South Yeo Farm West. South Yeo Farm West training days. Best weekend ever. Thank you so much for being so helpful, flexible and friendly. We absolutely loved it.". Currently we deliver the following courses of interest to budding and existing smallholders and those that run small farms. We have a dedicated website for our training courses. Or click on the links below for details:. Introduction to Smallholding: two day course. Smallholding Weekend: two days of practical fun on the farm. And because this i...
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Ramblings: A month on
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Life in Devon: murblings on farming, food, animals, art, books, politics and stuff. Saturday, 6 November 2010. It's been a month since we buried Mopsa. In the orchard and I can't believe how much I miss her. I'm a pretty hard-hearted character, unsentimental on the whole, dealing plainly with life and death as you do, on a farm. But oh, she's left such a huge hole in my heart. And where are those wonderful wriggling chestnut eyebrows, communicating this and that? And there's just too much space on the ca...
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Ramblings: Tumble weed, bindweed
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Life in Devon: murblings on farming, food, animals, art, books, politics and stuff. Tuesday, 3 August 2010. Tumble weed, bindweed. I can't keep up with myself. My desk has 8 heaps all requiring attention, which they are getting, it's true, but other things are falling by the wayside. I stuffed my colander with the vegetable goodies and ran into the house. If the triffids invade, I'll only have myself to blame. That bindweed is a sod isnt it? It creeps up other plants and threatens to strangle them. I...
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Ramblings: Back to the land
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Life in Devon: murblings on farming, food, animals, art, books, politics and stuff. Tuesday, 21 August 2012. Back to the land. Working every hour of daylight to reap a harvest barely adequate for your own needs, literally breaking your back to support a family, it's not surprising that subsistence farmers crave a less knife-edge existence. But why do so many people have such a strong desire to get back to the land? Is there some sort of as yet unfound rural gene? And Janet Street Porter. I don't think so.
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Ramblings: Not another resolution
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Life in Devon: murblings on farming, food, animals, art, books, politics and stuff. Wednesday, 4 January 2012. When the ground has turned into Willy Wonka's chocolate river but I continue to refuse my Oompaloompa stripes and add to the poaching, rather more time is spent indoors than desirable. But it feels like a fitting beginning to a new year, taking it a bit easier for a change. The bringing in of the new cows. It's a wonderful feeling, after what has been the most extraordinarily busy year. Noah's A...
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Ramblings: A golden thing
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Life in Devon: murblings on farming, food, animals, art, books, politics and stuff. Saturday, 17 July 2010. Those holy hand grenades of Antioch, as our golden globe courgettes are known, have attracted something extraordinary. It might be bog standard to those who know, but I don't know so it seems all the more mystical and otherworldly. This gilded thing, this glowing preciously metalled, wrapped in gold leaf insectish creature was sucking goodness from its host veg. What happens now? Wow, what an incre...
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Ramblings: Child size cellos
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Life in Devon: murblings on farming, food, animals, art, books, politics and stuff. Friday, 29 July 2011. It's been a long while since I blogged, but tonight I had the urge to tell you about my Pilgrim geese. Although nearly all the eggs my trio produced were fertile, the successful hatching rate of the Pilgrim is low - no wonder they're a rare breed - and I managed to hatch just ten through artificial incubation, although the batch I left under the goose came to naught. The six goslings in the flock are...
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Ramblings: Roger rogers
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Life in Devon: murblings on farming, food, animals, art, books, politics and stuff. Saturday, 17 October 2009. The grief an overexcited ram can cause a farmer cannot be exaggerated. New chap. Could we find him? No I flag down the postman and he promises to ask at each farm he passes. We drop in on all the local farmers and they say they'll keep a look out. We go home, me to wait for phone calls and OH to retrace my steps across the farm. That have yet to go to the ram. My words are blue, and we waste...
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