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‘Care farming for the future’

Welcome to the our website where we aim to promote the work we are developing on our small farm with people from all walks of life. We want to nurture a welcoming, inclusive and therapeutic environment where people can get involved in various activities - animal care, gardening, training courses, environmental education - all in a supportive, caring atmosphere.

This is their story so far...

Drawn together by a mutual friend, two families Chris and Barbara, Paul and Ruth, with their children Anja, Heather and Maddie, got together to share their vision of  the Care Farm (which is what many similar initiatives are called.)

We wanted to use  our life experiences, our skills, hopes and aspirations, our hidden talents and vocational callings for the benefit of others  and especially those with special needs and vulnerable young people.  We also wanted to change our lifestyles and in so doing care more for the natural environment and for Gods creation.  We want to live more simply and creatively and in a very real sense try to be more healing and less destructive of our planet.  We were to throw all that we had into this adventure and so we sold our homes and followed what some said (and many thought) was a crazy path into the unknown...