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Fowlescombe Farm Fowlescombe Farm is a luxury Devon hotel rooted in regeneration and true field-to-fork dining, set at the heart a 450-acre estate on the fringes of Dartmoor.

As seen in Condé Nast Traveller, The Telegraph & National Geographic Traveller.

16/10/2026

Field Notes | 16 October 2026

Sea Swims: We may be on Dartmoor’s edge, but we’re only a winding lane or two away from sand and sea. Caught in the best of both worlds, if you will.

Sea swims call often; sometimes with a touch of reluctance come winter, but you never regret one.

Some days, feeling good means counting to three and diving in.

Defra published its annual count of Britain’s wild birds this week and it makes for sobering reading. Since 1970, farmla...
15/10/2026

Defra published its annual count of Britain’s wild birds this week and it makes for sobering reading. Since 1970, farmland birds have fallen by almost two thirds, yellowhammers and lapwings still falling steeply.

Our last survey here counted 39 species across the farm, nine of them on the national priority list. The barn owls over the fields at dusk. Skylarks over the leys in spring. Yellowhammers that burst from the hedgerows.

There’s an abundance of life here far beyond the animals we farm, wild birds among it. We’re doing all we can to help them survive and thrive like they once did.

A Week on the Farm | Last October Half TermFresh pasta by little hands. Shelley’s grandma’s apple cake recipe, with frui...
11/10/2026

A Week on the Farm | Last October Half Term

Fresh pasta by little hands. Shelley’s grandma’s apple cake recipe, with fruit from the orchard and caramel-sticky fingers. Walks into the woods for George’s flatbreads over a fire, and the piglets’ share of the apple harvest, dished out by eager farmers in training.

Ordinary days on a very big adventure. There’s still a little availability for this one…

Included in every stay: the full range of a very good day. Something learned, something made, something to slow you down...
09/10/2026

Included in every stay: the full range of a very good day.

Something learned, something made, something to slow you down. In the fields with Rosie, in the garden with Shelley, in the kitchen with Brandon, scouring the skies with Andrew. What’s on the calendar depends on what the farm needs today.

Boots may get muddy. Phones will go unchecked.

If you have been thinking about taking a seat at the Refectory table, this weekend has some space. The kitchen at work i...
07/10/2026

If you have been thinking about taking a seat at the Refectory table, this weekend has some space.

The kitchen at work in front of you, the gardens and fields that feed it just outside. Squash from the beds, preserves that have had a summer to steep from the pickle shelf. The work of a whole farm on the menu.

In the fields, the day stops at dusk. In the kitchen, it’s only just beginning. Join us for dinner

It’s still warm here. Jumper weather first thing, T-shirt weather by noon. By 4pm, the light floods in long and gold. Th...
05/10/2026

It’s still warm here. Jumper weather first thing, T-shirt weather by noon. By 4pm, the light floods in long and gold. The trees are just starting to turn the same syrupy shade. Mucking in this week means saving seeds with Shelley, making the acquaintance of 24 new piglets with George, and baking bread with Brandon for dinner. Wellies are yet to become obligatory, and we’re hoping it stays that way a while yet.

Autumn on a Devon farm is off to a good start.

A Week on the Farm | 4 October 202626 piglets, a long time coming. Cutting, bending and weaving a new season’s hedges. ...
04/10/2026

A Week on the Farm | 4 October 2026

26 piglets, a long time coming. Cutting, bending and weaving a new season’s hedges. Herb beds before dinner. A daily view - garden and kitchen in cahoots - and a cake a day.

03/10/2026

Apple season at Fowlescombe.

Not all pickers are on the payroll. Not all apples make the kitchen.

03/10/2026

Apple season at Fowlescombe.

Not all of those picking are on the payroll. Not all of what is picked makes the kitchen.

This November, England’s Devon meets the Catskills.On 10th & 11th November, Fowlescombe Farm comes to Piaule Catskill fo...
01/10/2026

This November, England’s Devon meets the Catskills.

On 10th & 11th November, Fowlescombe Farm comes to Piaule Catskill for a special two-day residency, bringing a taste of the English countryside to Upstate New York.

Set across 450 acres of rolling Devon hills, Fowlescombe is a contemporary farm-stay rooted in regenerative agriculture, with farm-to-table dining led by Chef Elly Wentworth. The cooking follows the seasons, using what is growing and available in the fields and garden each day.

For two days, Elly brings Fowlescombe’s approach to Piaule, working with the farms, produce and landscape of the Hudson Valley.

Different land, same instinct: cooking with what’s close to hand and in season.

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