(we only provide links to people we know or organisations or products we would be happy to recommend or use ourselves)
Elmfield B&B The closest B&B to us, just 1 mile away in Northlew village within walking distance of the Green Dragon pub for food
East Worth Farmhouse B&B Tel: 01409 221757 2.3 miles away (10 mins) located the other side of the village
Travel Lodge at Sourton Cross. As you come of the main A30 on the west end of Okehampton. A 15 minute drive
The George Hotel in Hatherleigh, 10 minutes drive away. Accommodation and food. Famously rebuilt after a fire burnt it down in 2008
The Linhay B&B, Copplestone. Run by friends of ours & positively the most delightful, relaxing and tranquil B&B if you are really wanting to make a weekend of being away. A 45 minute drive away from us. Listed with Sawdays and rated by the Daily Telegraph as one of the 10 coolest B&Bs in the country 2017
Waytown Farm self-catering cottage with friends Helen & Murray. Located between Northlew and Okehampton, approximately 10 minutes drive away. Helen offers a smallholding/farm property search service if you are looking to relocate to the Westcountry
AHDB beef and lamb - publish really useful booklets on all aspects of land, sheep & cattle health and management
British Coloured Sheep Breeders Association We are a bit partial to coloured sheep breeds...
British sheep breed societies:
Balwen Welsh Mountain Sheep Society (we've kept a flock of Balwen since 2005)
Black Welsh Mountain (we have 2 BWM ewes in our mixed flock for use on our Sheep courses)
Bluefaced Leicester (we have 'Mandy' & 'Opal' coloured BFL ewes in our commercial flock)
Blue Texel (Our most recent additions into our commercial flock)
Castlemilk Moorit (we had a Castlemilk ewe for a few years, an attractive primitive breed)
Cheviot
Clun Forest
Cotswold Sheep
Devon & Cornwall Longwool
Devon Closewool
Dorper
Dorset Down
Dorset Horn & Poll Dorset (we occassionally borrow a neighbour's PD ram for breeding)
Easy Care
Exmoor Horn (we have bred Exmoor Horn in the past, very protective mums)
Gotland (we used to run a flock of Gotlands, they produce super lustrous curly grey fleeces)
Greyface Dartmoor (we have one GFD ewe in our mixed flock & have bred them previously)
Hampshire Down
Hebridean
Herdwick
Hill Radnor
Jacob (we keep a flock of Jacob sheep, breeding some pure & others crossed to a Poll Dorset)
Kerry Hill (we bred these striking sheep for a few years but found they didn't suit our ground)
Leicester Longwool
Lincoln Longwool
Llanwenog
Lleyn
Lonk
Manx Loaghtan
Masham
Norfolk Horn (we used to breed this smart upright sheep)
North Country Cheviot
North Ronaldsay
Oxford Down (if I were allowed another breed of sheep, this may well be it...)
Portland
Romney
Rough Fell
Ryeland (including Coloured ryelands) (Our favourite of all the sheep breeds we keep)
Shetland
Shropshire (our main flock; initially chosen as they are a tree friendly breed)
Soay and Boreray
Southdown
Suffolk
Swaledale
Teeswater
Texel
Wensleydale
White Face Dartmoor
Whitefaced Woodland
Wiltshire Horn
Zwartbles
Piers' Sheds and Animal Housing Can't recommend more highly; quality animal housing made to order
Feathersite An American website but very useful
Brinsea The best incubators you can buy
Forsham cottage arks Some of our original houses came from here - before we met Piers (above link)
Defra's poultry registration pages
A few of our favourite breeds' clubs, contacts or associations:
Andalusian - (overseen by the RPS) Registrar Mr Andrew Bowden 01285 821067
Arauacana
Barnevelder Club
Dorking
Ixworth (RPS) Registrar Colin Wood 01773 880623 (correct as of 2018)
Lakenvelder (RPS) registrar Juliet Hill 01522 778250 (correct as of 2018)
Marans Club
Orpington
Pekin
Sabelpoot (Booted bantams)
Vorwerk (RPS) Registrar Jane Freeman 07710 653124 (correct as of 2018)
Welsummer
The Agriculture & Horticulture Development Board (AHDB Pork)
The eAML site - for all pig movement records
The Oxford Sandy & Black Pig Group on facebook run by Kim Brook is a great source of advice for all pig keepers
British Pig breed clubs and contacts:
Berkshire
Duroc
Gloucestershire Old Spots
KuneKune
Landrace
Large Black
Large White
Lop
Magalitza
Middle White
Oxford Sandy and Black
Pietrain
Saddleback
Tamworth
Welsh
British Cattle Movement Service (BCMS) for notifying all cattle movements, births & deaths
Our cattle breeds:
Riggit Galloway Cattle Society The friendliest cattle society you could find!
Canadian Speckle Park Association
Irish Speckle Park Society (there is no UK Society as yet)
The Rare Breeds Survival Trust (RBST)
The Devon Association of Smallholders (training and support for smallholdersin Devon and beyond)
Centre for Alternative Technology Country www.cat.org.uk
Smallholding magazine www.countrysmallholding.com
Defra’s Stewardship Schemes www.countrysmallholding.com
Ecolots on line marketplace www.ecolots.co.uk
Rare Breeds Survival Trust Rare Breeds watch list www.rbst.org.uk/watch-list/main.php
Angling 2000 wild fishing marketing scheme www.angling2000.org.uk
A friend’s organic farm in Cumbria selling meat direct from the farm www.zeotekinternational.com/england/cumb/organic/wf.htm
The Basketmakers Association www.basketassoc.org
Gillian’s father is a traditional woodsman making heavy timber frames where he lives in Canada under the Pig & Whistle name www.saltspring.com/pig&whistle
