After an incredibly warm & dry summer and early Autumn, we’re now getting some rain, but it’s still unseasonably warm – a couple of days...

As Spring turns to summer, Challacombe bursts into life. The summer migrants have started breeding and the air is full of wheeling...

Whilst you can never be 100% sure on Dartmoor, we’ve now put Winter behind us, and with the warm sunshine of the past week, it almost...

It’s now the start of March and hopefully Spring is well on its way. With the obvious exception of the storms, so far Winter has been...

December is a fairly quiet month on the farm. There is a daily routine of feeding the cattle in the barns and scraping the yard clean....

In the last week, the seasons have certainly changed as we’ve moved from a pleasant Autumn into the first chilly winds of Winter....

The lovely weather we had in the early part of the month is becoming a distant memory with 6” of rain in the past week. However one...

September is a relatively quiet month on the farm. We’re all prepared for winter with the hay all harvested and a load of straw stored in...

By the end of August it felt like Autumn was on its way. The evenings are getting cooler, there is a heavy dew each morning and the...

July has flown by. In the first half of the month we had lots of visitors coming to walk around our hay meadows and rhos pasture whilst...

Over the past few years, with the support of our landlord, the Duchy of Cornwall, we’ve been thinking about how to improve the farm’s...

Wildlife on the farm June is when the farm probably looks its best, with lots of flowers and the sky full of birds. At beginning of the...

April is probably our busiest month as we’ve lots going on …. Sheep We lamb our flock (of 100 ewes) later than most farms as we’re not...

First couple of days of the relaxation of the lock-down rules and the weather has been lovely, and it’s great to see the return of...

February at Challacombe seems to have flown by and it feels like we’ve had all 4 seasons in the month. It started off normal grey winter...

Another month gone, so time to look back. January was a particularly quiet month for us. Like most people we’ve been hunkered down, with...

A summary of what's been happening on the farm over the past few months and looking ahead to 2021.