Derbyshire and Dovedale Farm Holidays Group
Farm Diaries
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| Dannah Farm Country House | Near to Belper - Map number: 09 | | New arrival at Dannah Farm! | Sunday 04 May 2008 |  Chase, born at the end of February has come to join Cracker and Jack, our two English setters. Very cute, and already causing a stir with family, staff and guests alike!! | | See our farm details | See our website at: www.dannah.co.uk | | Tel: 01773 550273 | Email: slack@dannah.co.uk |
| Dannah Farm Country House | Near to Belper - Map number: 09 | | Reserve for Jack at Crufts! | Sunday 09 March 2008 |  We were delighted when Jack was placed 4th in his class at Crufts, out of a strong entry of 15. He has beaten all three dogs placed ahead of him at some point during his short career in the showring, so he must be up with the best! Watch out in 2009!!! | | See our farm details | See our website at: www.dannah.co.uk | | Tel: 01773 550273 | Email: slack@dannah.co.uk |
| Windlehill Farm | Near to Burton on Trent - Map number: 06 | | Beagle News | Sunday 02 March 2008 |  Not to be outdone by the sheep Kittiwake has presented us with 3 puppies - a tiny girl - Linnet, and two big boys - Legend and Lyric. All have homes booked.
Their cousin, Joyful, will be off to Crufts this week to join 255 other beagles in the beagle classes. | | See our farm details | See our website at: www.windlehill.btinternet.co.uk | | Tel: 01283 732377 | Email: windlehill@btinternet.com |
| Dannah Farm Country House | Near to Belper - Map number: 09 | | Jack has qualified for Crufts | Sunday 17 February 2008 |  For the second year running, Jack, (and Martin), have qualified for crufts in March. This year we are hoping for great things - a rosette would be nice! More news to follow shortly. | | See our farm details | See our website at: www.dannah.co.uk | | Tel: 01773 550273 | Email: slack@dannah.co.uk |
| Owslow Farm | Near to Wirksworth - Map number: 17 | | Lamas doing well | Friday 11 January 2008 |  My lama, Emily, is now , hopefully, pregnant as she has been with her husband now for some 7 months so we are hoping for .a yongster sometime in the spring. | | See our farm details | See our website at: | | Tel: 01629 540510 | Email: peter.oldfield@ukonline.co.uk |
| Culland Mount Farm | Near to Derby - Map number: 02 | | Culland Mount Farm---booking 2008 | Sunday 30 December 2007 |  Culland Mount Farm--now rather quieter now the cows have been sold in 2005.Richard now looks after other farmers animals so there are still animals of all ages to see here.Just up the road we now have a 9 hole golf course and a driving range. also a cricket pitch where the local team plays regularly during the summer months. | | See our farm details | See our website at: www.cullandmount.co.uk | | Tel: 01335 360313 | Email: cullandmount@tiscali.co.uk |
| Near to - Map number: | | Chop House Garden | Monday 13 August 2007 |  The Chop House garden is now nearly completed and the plants are beginning to grow. | | See our farm details | See our website at: | | Tel: | Email: |
| Windlehill Farm | Near to Burton on Trent - Map number: 06 | | New garden in the Chop House | Monday 28 May 2007 |  Some 4 years ago we contacted the RHS Gold Medal Winner Julian Dowle with a view to improving our garden layout and finding plants which would be easy to grow and hard to kill (being short of time and lacking a plantsman’s knowledge!)
We loved Julian’s Chelsea winning gardens and were delighted with the plans and planting schemes that he provided for us. We have now finished the new layout of The Chop House garden and have found nearly all the plants in the scheme. We have greatly enjoyed finding the plants and visiting nurseries and learned a great deal about plants in the process. Picture of finished garden once scheme is complete.
| | See our farm details | See our website at: www.windlehill.btinternet.co.uk | | Tel: 01283 732377 | Email: windlehill@btinternet.com |
| Culland Mount Farm | Near to Derby - Map number: 02 | | Changes on the farm | Friday 11 May 2007 |  The cows have all been sold but we now have beef cattle-Belgium-blue cows with young calves. There are also lots of sheep and lambs as well as Tessa the dog,a golden retreiver+++ lots of farm cats who are fed cat-stars(biscuit for cats),now there is no milk for them. Nearby there is a golf driving range and a 12 hole course which is to be enlarged shortly. Village cricket is played only a short walk from us.Brailsford church which is shared with Ednaston therefore situated in a field beween the two villages is a pleasant walk from the farm. | | See our farm details | See our website at: www.cullandmount.co.uk | | Tel: 01335 360313 | Email: cullandmount@tiscali.co.uk |
| Windlehill Farm | Near to Burton on Trent - Map number: 06 | | Courses at Windlehill Farm. | Sunday 01 April 2007 |  Following on from last years successful spinning, weaving and textile design courses we are pleased again to host a range of new courses organised by Skylark Holidays in our new meeting rooms.
As well as Spinng and Weaving, courses will include Wine Tasting and Dry Stone Walling and many more over the next year.
Contact us for details. | | See our farm details | See our website at: www.windlehill.btinternet.co.uk | | Tel: 01283 732377 | Email: windlehill@btinternet.com |
| Dannah Farm Country House | Near to Belper - Map number: 09 | | New Spa Facilities ready at last! | Saturday 01 November 2003 |  The new "Leisure Cabin" at Dannah Farm is now completely finished, and is booking fast! Guests can reserve the cabin for their exclusive use, with any bedroom, on any day of their stay. It is very private, and has a huge hot-tub set on a secluded terrace, a finnish sauna, double steam shower and luxurious living space. It looks even better than we thought it would, and feedback from guests using it has been fantastic. I just hope we can keep up with the demand! | | See our farm details | See our website at: www.dannah.co.uk | | Tel: 01773 550273 | Email: slack@dannah.co.uk |
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Puppies now seven weeks old and ready to go!
Breakfasts served using local produce as much as possible and home made preserves.
Richard has spent many happy hours restoring this tractor
Our orchard mowers have produced 6 lambs so far. We are expecting more. Some sheep just like to keep us waiting.... 
Great excitement as new puppies arrive much sooner than we thought!
Meg is expecting her first litter to Bob.It looks like collie pups for Easter!
Egor is now a large white goose and living with the chickens. 
We are now starting to bring our 10 orchard mowers in for some extra feed in readiness for lambing later this month. 
The Chop House garden is now nearly completed and the plants are starting to flower.