A variety of guided and educational walks of varying length and fitness requirements for different target groups can be arranged. We are happy to arrange visits for groups of people who would like to find out more about where their food comes from and learn what happens on a farm. These events can involve a walk, a talk, a close up meeting with the animals, sometimes ending with a barbecue and a chance to sample farm produce. Visits by other farmers are an opportunity to show what we do here, to get advice from other farmers and to exchange ideas. Or perhaps you would just enjoy the chance to visit the countryside and see what farmers actually do for the environment.

To go round a goodly part of the site at a reasonable pace will take two hours, without allowing for stops to examine things. To take in the woods at Coombe or the Ladydown site as well could take most of a day.

Some different ideas

A walk that might appeal to an adult group could be based on English literature. Many of the poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Clare, Keats and Shelley and Duke Senior's 'sermons in stones' speech from As You Like It spring to mind. To linger in the little meadows at the bottom of the valley or the woods at the old Kennels, listening to the natural sounds at dawn and dusk or the hum of bees on a summer's day is to step back into an earlier, less frantic time.

For artistic inspiration, the varied landscape and excellent views including Dartmoor and, from the highest points, the sea if weather permits, the romantic ruins and the flowers of the field are all material for sketching and photography. At a more abstract level, shapes, textures, colour and patterns in nature, leaves, stone, bark could be used in textile design and scanned into a computer for use in graphics work.

Quiet contemplation on a visit to the old woods and disused quarries: a chance to leave the everyday behind and commune with nature, your own thoughts or add a spiritual dimension. Best in spring and early summer when the woods are filled with bird song and spring wildflowers.

Or have a look at some of the other menu items under Visitors Centre or Education Access