What goes on at Harewood Farm?
This 25 acre farm is a mix of traditional hay meadows and woodland with river frontage onto the Tamar. We currently mow some of our hay meadows and use a small herd of Dexter cows to conservation graze the rest. The cows rotate around the pastures for 5 weeks during the Spring eating the diverse grass and wild plants, then they go home to their own pasture and the meadows are left to grow up over the summer. This allows all of the insects to complete their cycles of life and all of the flowers to sow their seeds for the next year. In the autumn the cows return to eat the standing hay. This relationship between farm animals and wildlife mimics how natural cycles would have supported one another in times gone by, when grazing animals would have roamed freely around the countryside.
We cultivate small fruit and vegetable gardens where we grow food for our local community. We enjoy sharing knowledge about caring for the soil through the nature friendly approach of Agro-ecology.
Our focus is on fresh seasonal vital food… growing it, foraging it, harvesting it, cooking it and eating it!