What goes on at Harewood Farm?
In 2025 Harewood Farm became a County Wildlife Site designated by Cornwall Wildlife Trust.
In 2023 and again in 2025 Harewood Farm was awarded ‘Tamar Valley Champions’ by the Tamar Valley NL, for championing biodiversity and sustainable farming.
Our 25 acre farm is a mix of traditional hay meadows; full of diverse plants and invertebrates, and woodland with river frontage onto the Tamar. We currently mow some of our meadows and bale the hay for animal feed 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 the insects to complete their cycles of life and 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 sell our seasonal vegetables through the Tamar Valley Food Hub. We enjoy sharing knowledge about caring for the soil through the nature friendly approach of Agro-ecology.
We run educational visits for schools and youth groups and quarterly feasts in our field kitchen barn to celebrate seasonal junctures of the year.
Our focus is on fresh seasonal vital food… growing it, foraging it, harvesting it, cooking it and eating it!