Winter is coming (finally)
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...
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Mark Owen
Jun 6, 20224 min read
May on the farm
As Spring turns to summer, Challacombe bursts into life. The summer migrants have started breeding and the air is full of wheeling...
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Mark Owen
Apr 19, 20224 min read
Spring news from Challacombe Farm – lambs, new bull and a world first.
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...
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Mark Owen
Mar 1, 20223 min read
Looking back at January & Feb
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...
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Mark Owen
Jan 9, 20221 min read
December Blog – Looking back at 2021
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....
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Mark Owen
Dec 3, 20214 min read
November at Challacombe – getting ready for Winter
In the last week, the seasons have certainly changed as we’ve moved from a pleasant Autumn into the first chilly winds of Winter....
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Mark Owen
Oct 31, 20214 min read
October - starting some new projects
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...
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Mark Owen
Oct 5, 20214 min read
September - Autumn sunshine and annual audits
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...
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Mark Owen
Sep 7, 20213 min read
August on the farm
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...
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Mark Owen
Aug 3, 20213 min read
Looking back at July
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...
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Mark Owen
Aug 3, 202113 min read
What do you think of our future plans for a wilder Challacombe?
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...
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Mark Owen
Jul 4, 20214 min read
June at Challacombe Farm – Flowers, fleeces and visitors
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...
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Mark Owen
May 2, 20216 min read
April - sunshine and lambs
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...
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Mark Owen
Mar 29, 20213 min read
March update from Challacombe Farm
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...
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Mark Owen
Mar 1, 20213 min read
February on the farm
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...
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Mark Owen
Feb 2, 20213 min read
Looking back on January 2021
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...
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Mark Owen
Jan 1, 20213 min read
Goodbye to 2020 & looking ahead to 2021.
A summary of what's been happening on the farm over the past few months and looking ahead to 2021.
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