A short What's On listing is below with contact details for local Tourist Information offices.

February 2010 Our ancient coppice hosted a ThinkNature coppicing workshop, bringing biodiversity and next winter's logs, when we've chopped them.  Anyone fancy an activity holiday!

Coppicing Workshop in February

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Light & new growth and new friends.

 

click to go to ThinkNature's website
   

 
     

November 2009 Our first home-made cider is ready and it's very lively!   Invigorating beach walks, mild weather; beautiful light. Home to log fires.

October 2009 Golden Autumn! We're pressing apples for our first cider, collecting from the hedgerows for sloe gin, sloe whisky, chutneys, jams, crumbles and hazelnuts.

 

                 Blackpool Sands in January

 

 

 

                

 

January 2010 Dippers, kingfisher, herons and mysterious paw prints in the mud ... otters!

December 2009 New website launched - now you can see more photos and get a better impression of our lovely cottages!

 

 

 

 

 

                    Brisk Walks on the Beach

 

 

September 2009 Blue skies, sunshine and harvest time. Our orchard is groaning with cookers, eaters, ciderers John levels more land for veg and fruit - a happy man, a week on a digger                     


 

 

August 2009 Summer sunshine, our last ducklings are thriving. Even Half-Baked, the smallest duckling who had three turns in the Aga after an assisted hatching - he had to be peeled out of his egg. The Big Lunch a great success, especially the home-made eco raft race.

 

  

Our secret Gara Valley

 

 

 

July 2009 Traffic jam at Watermill Cottages!

 

  
June 2009 Fabulous sunny dry weather though too dry for badgers - the worms are too deep. They found an alternative food source in our duck eggs - we found a young badger curled up under the hay in the dog kennel resting after an egg supper. Two nests and twenty eggs gone....  

A Peacock butterfly on the buddleia

 

 

 

 

 

 

May 2009 An otter in Quack Cottage's garden, running along the river's edge. Drifts of bluebells, white garlic and wild flowers in the woods and wetlands. Swallows swooping, fish are jumping... aah summer time!


March 2009 Spring - wild daffodils, violets & primroses. The Kitchen Garden is taking shape..

 

April 2009 Our first ducklings! And flow tests to assess the viability of running on water from our spring.

Tourist Information Offices

Kingsbridge: Kingsbridge Tourist Info or call Kingsbridge Tourist Information on 01548 853195

Dartmouth: Dartmouth Tourist Info or call Dartmouth Tourist Information on 01803 835631

Totnes: Totnes Tourist Info or call Totnes Tourist Information on 01803 863168

Click for a full list of events in South Devon for 2010

  

  Jack leaps!

What's On in 2010

27 Feb        Endurance Life Marathon & Half Marathon, Beesands Click here for more info

2-5 April      Pennywell Farm Easter Egg Hunt

2 May         Blackawton International Festival of Worm Charming

3-8 May      Modbury Fair Week

7-9 May      Dartmouth Music Festival

22-29 May   Devon Wine Week

18-21 June  Kingsbridge Music Festival

20 June       Totnes Book Fair

26 June       Bigbury Fun Run

9-18 July     Ways with Words Festival, Dartington Hall, Totnes Ways With Words

18-25 July    Kingsbridge Fair 

3-7 August   Shakespeare Week, Dartmouth Castle

26-28 August Dartmouth Royal Regatta. www.dartmouthregatta.co.uk

The Reel Cinema, Kingsbridge

Licensed Screens in an independent quirky cinema Full programme, tickets and screening times at The Reel Cinema or call 01548 856636

The Flavel, Dartmouth

Cinema, Theatre, Music and Dance plus cafe and bar. Programme at The Flavel Arts Centre.