Great Houndtor Farm - A farm with biodiversity at its heart.
Great Houndtor is a special farm, half wild, a place where nature is winning.
The farm has over 60 species of birds living here during the year, old pastureland filled with herbs and wildflowers, overgrown hedges hung with moss and lichen, and woods full of bluebells and owls.
The farm has a small herd of hardy (Hereford cross Angus) cows, perfect for the low input farming that nature needs. The moor above the farm is grazed by a flock of black Hebridean sheep, who thrive on a mix of grass, gorse and bramble.
The meat the farm produces is sold through Farm Wilder, who are helping farmers do the right thing for cuckoos and butterflies on Dartmoor. The cows and sheep are only fed a natural diet, no grains or soya, just the plants that grow here along with some extra hay in the winter. This means they grow tasty nutritious meat, slowly.
Great Houndtor farm is now in organic conversion (the years before it can be called fully organic) and is certified PFLA, which means it’s a member of the pasture fed livestock association. This is a simple step for us as we already don’t feed grain to our cows like so many others do. (The sheep get a tiny bit to get t(em to behave!)
Great Houndtor Farm joined the soil carbon project in 2019, helping to find out what can be done to sequester more carbon in soil and help fight climate change.
The camping barn is in the heart of the working farm, next to the sheep barn, so in the spring you may be surrounded by lambs and sheep. The field in front of the barn is often busy with sheep, lambs, cows and calves. Birds (particularly our white doves) nest in the nooks of the Camping Barn, and sweep across the fields a”most close enough to touch, so you can get up close to nature if you stay here!
Great Houndtor is a special farm, half wild, a place where nature is winning.
The farm has over 60 species of birds living here during the year, old pastureland filled with herbs and wildflowers, overgrown hedges hung with moss and lichen, and woods full of bluebells and owls.
The farm has a small herd of hardy (Hereford cross Angus) cows, perfect for the low input farming that nature needs. The moor above the farm is grazed by a flock of black Hebridean sheep, who thrive on a mix of grass, gorse and bramble.
The meat the farm produces is sold through Farm Wilder, who are helping farmers do the right thing for cuckoos and butterflies on Dartmoor. The cows and sheep are only fed a natural diet, no grains or soya, just the plants that grow here along with some extra hay in the winter. This means they grow tasty nutritious meat, slowly.
Great Houndtor farm is now in organic conversion (the years before it can be called fully organic) and is certified PFLA, which means it’s a member of the pasture fed livestock association. This is a simple step for us as we already don’t feed grain to our cows like so many others do. (The sheep get a tiny bit to get t(em to behave!)
Great Houndtor Farm joined the soil carbon project in 2019, helping to find out what can be done to sequester more carbon in soil and help fight climate change.
The camping barn is in the heart of the working farm, next to the sheep barn, so in the spring you may be surrounded by lambs and sheep. The field in front of the barn is often busy with sheep, lambs, cows and calves. Birds (particularly our white doves) nest in the nooks of the Camping Barn, and sweep across the fields a”most close enough to touch, so you can get up close to nature if you stay here!