We are thrilled that Widecombe in the Moor primary school have asked us to lead their Forest School experience for the Reception/Year 1 class this summer term. We have spent 2 weeks at school getting to know the children, setting expectations and playing games that set safe behaviour patterns for being in the woods. Our … Read more
Bob Martin is a great volunteer here at the farm. His daughter Carole is running the London Marathon to raise money for Shallowford Farm! We want to wish Carole all the best with her training and the marathon itself. Thank you Carole for all the hard work and huge amount of energy on the 24th April. … Read more
Looking back over 2015, there have been a range of high and low points at Shallowford, of empty times and full times, of easy progress and painful progress, but praise God we are here where we are, we believe, by God’s grace. For this report we will look back on progress. I am reminded, from the gospel, … Read more
What I enjoyed at the Farm/ What is different in Battersea: “Some people think shepherds just herd sheep but they do so much more. I helped the shepherd move the Farm’s sheep along with the sheep dog. I also watched the acting out of the Nativity in the fields in the evening in the dark. … Read more
Sunday Morning – 6th December 2015. Bethlehem is in the hill country of Judah, and I expect in season they got their share of wind and rain and mud. We are re-creating our own Bethlehem in the hill country of Dartmoor for the Shallowford Nativity tonight. We have already had our share of wind, shaking … Read more
East Shallowford has been indebted to the support of local people throughout the forty years, and going forward we look to develop closer ties with Broadaford Farm and also with new supporters. We have enjoyed the association not only with the established Dartmoor farming community, but also with those who have settled on the moor … Read more
The business plan model means that we will be in a better position to support the more economically challenged groups. Money has never been, nor ever will be, a motivation for this work. In almost every group there were those who could not effectively pay their way; but the value of their coming was of more importance … Read more
It is forty years this Autumn 2015 that Elizabeth Braund and Rosemary Bird first came to Dartmoor to pilot their project, in the first instance at Bag Park Manor, with the kind assistance of Patrick Coaker. It will be forty years in autumn 2016, that they first came and settled at East Shallowford, bringing groups … Read more
Being a Working Hill Farm was integral to Elizabeth’s concept and continues to be essential to going forward. There are small animals on the ‘home’ farm for children to interact with safely, and the more challenging proper engagement with the larger animal farming process is vital to the experience. The last group enjoyed bringing in and … Read more
As the current capacity with the manager living in Shallowford is for a maximum of 16 visitors in the house, our proposals are designed so that we can house a small minibus load group, but also to have the capacity for school class size groups. Our plan is neither to appear like a hotel nor to … Read more