About US
We are a 50 acre regenerative farm based near Bewdley, Worcestershire. The farm hosts a herd of pedigree Dexter cattle, flock of mixed breed shedding wool sheep, heritage orchards, no-dig market garden, extensive agroforestry aswell as two fishing pools.
Meet the Team
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Stuart
Stuart is the owner, having been born on the farm, he has overseen the transformation into the nature focused regenerative form the farm currently takes.
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Liz
Liz set up the farms market garden in 2023, she has been responsible for providing hundreds of veg boxes to happy customers and creating happy homes for the shrews, frogs and insects in her garden
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Ryan
Ryan has worked part time on the farm since 2019, he helps to manage the livestock and with the day to day running of the farm. His apprentice Spot the dog has some work yet to do before being let loose with the sheep.
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The Volunteers
Set up in 2020 to help restore the neglected forest garden, our regular team have since taken on the role of managing our orchards and promoting us at local events.
Our Core Aims Are To:
Produce high quality, nutrient dense food for the local community.
Increase biodiversity across the farm landscape.
Connect with the local community by providing opportunities to access the land.
Be a viable business resilient to climatic and economic uncertainties.
How do we achieve our core aims?
We can achieve our core aims by looking beneath our feet at the soil. By focussing on creating healthy soil full of microorganisms, allows the rest of the ecosystem to flourish. This is the main premises of regenerative agriculture. Using techniques such as mob-grazing, allows us to have healthier animals that have a diverse diet of pasture and forage reducing the need for us to use routine wormers and anti-biotics. Looking at the farm holistically allows us to build connections and put in place systems such as creating compost for the market garden from the animal manure, using mulches from tree chippings for the forest garden.
Produce high quality, nutrient dense food for the local community.
We achieve this aim by selling all our produce directly from the farm. We offer Dexter beef & lamb from the animals, seasonal veg boxes from the no-dig market garden, fresh fruit when in season; as well as apple juice and the occasional preserve. In the future we hope to add more products available to better achieve this aim, this could well be poultry, eggs, nuts & dried fruit, products processed from our produce such as apple cider vinegar and more preserves.
Increase biodiversity across the farm landscape.
A diverse ecosystem is important if we want to build resilience and support all forms of life. Monitoring is essential for this to make sure we are achieving this aim. We take yearly bird records, do regular soil monitoring and look through this microscope at the life in our soils. We try to create more habitats for wildlife by adding in tree lines in the form of agro-forestry, do not flail our hedges other than along the road instead coppice them on a long rotation. This creates a more diverse hedges that allow different species to flourish. We have also created a wildlife pool that has re-wilded itself.
Connect with the local community by providing opportunities to access the land.
Our group of Tuesday volunteers have played a pivotal role in making the orchards and forest garden work; as well as manning the stalls at local greener living fairs they have been able to reach out and connect with the wider community. We have had the pleasure of meeting many fantastic customers and have had plenty of interesting discussions when they come to pick up their produce from the shop. We also have regular farm tours which have enabled us to educate school children as well as the wider community.
Be a viable business resilient to climatic and economic uncertainties.
One of the biggest challenges of running a small acreage farm is to make it stack up financially. Having a mixture of different enterprises allows us to be a bit more resilient in uncertain times; having the fishing pools, sleeping barn and caravans helps to subsidise the farming enterprises when they may not stack up so well. At the moment government grants for countryside stewardship and SFI allows us to do some of the things, like offering educational visits for free, that we would not be able to do otherwise. This is the aim we need to work on most if we are to survive for the long haul.
FAQs
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We are not currently registered organic, however we follow many of the principles such as not using artificial fertilisers, pesticides or herbicides. This maybe something we look into in the future but we haven’t done so due to the added cost.
We believe we have gone beyond current organic standards and welcome visitors to the farm to make their own conclusion.
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We do not currently sell eggs or chicken but will be looking to in the near future. We are looking to pasture raise them for the added benefits that having chickens bring such as fertilising the pasture, reducing the fly count when following the cattle and producing nuturitionally dense eggs.
The farm house during the 1900's
Aerial shot of the farm in 1990
George Norgrove with Rusty on the farm during the 80s
The first Dexter cattle on the farm during the 1990's
Sunrise over the wildlife pond 2025, courtesy of Dave
Our current herd of Dexter cattle 2025, courtesy of Dave