Herefordshire farmstay accommodation
How this holiday makes a difference
Environment
We have always tried to protect our environment and hope to attract guests who are interested in wildlife and their surroundings. The cottages are restored stables using local timber and stone. We are conscientiously creating ponds, planting trees, feeding and monitoring birds, saving energy, saving water, recycling and using environmentally friendly products whenever possible.
Food is really important here, fresh, slowly gathered and slowly prepared. We buy locally as much as possible and as organic as possible (so produce is varied and seasonal), and are members of SLOW FOOD Herefordshire.
Herefordshire is bursting with high quality local produce, much of which can be found on our breakfast menu or in our hampers. Monkland Mousetrap cheese and Glyn-Slade Jones' chutney sausages or Tudges sausages are a must! Our welcome tea tray usually has home-made baking & fruit from the orchards and our garden is run on organic principles.
We’re Silver Award Wildlife Action and Green Business Awarded which means we’re continually striving to improve our environmental policies and actively encourage wildlife. We are aalways dding bird boxes and lace-wing houses to boost the small bird population in woodland adjacent to an orchard. A local coppice worker is working with us in September to use home grown hazel and ash to make additional arches for the cottage gardens.
Our aim is to preserve our rural heritage and share the stewardship of our farm. We’ve been involved in sustainable tourism for ten years, lecturing to Japanese groups and as part of the Eardisley village local holiday co-operative (now disbanded). We promote staying in the area to cycle, walk and ride and encourage the use of public transport.
Community
We actively encourage guests to frequent the local community businesses particularly our local farm shops and craft shops so helping small independents and boosting the local economy whilst helping some to achieve extended markets outside Herefordshire.
During Herefordshire Art week H.Art, the new Hereford Food Week, and the October Food Festival we suggest easy routes to cut down on mileage but ensure lesser known artisan producers and artists are visited. We try, through our blog to mention Things to Do really locally ie local country shows and displays, open studios and producers in order to minimise mileage whilst holidaying here in Herefordshire.
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