Fowlescombe Farm

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

A Week on the Farm | 6 September 2026Our daily bread; oftentimes made by the helping hands of guests. Fallen apples, tak...
06/09/2026

A Week on the Farm | 6 September 2026

Our daily bread; oftentimes made by the helping hands of guests. Fallen apples, taken by basket to grateful pigs. Preserving summer’s padrons to bring winter punch, and sowing next season’s plates. Looking up.

Autumn briefly reintroduced itself this week. We lit fires, came in from the rain, woke up to a chill. Remembered the jo...
06/09/2026

Autumn briefly reintroduced itself this week. We lit fires, came in from the rain, woke up to a chill. Remembered the joys of sheepskin and chose thicker socks.

Summer is back for now, but the last few days have reminded us that there are plenty of reasons to embrace autumn around here.

The dirty truth behind Fowlescombe. Three parts green, one part brown. Food waste, egg boxes, paper menus, grass cutting...
02/09/2026

The dirty truth behind Fowlescombe. Three parts green, one part brown. Food waste, egg boxes, paper menus, grass cuttings, weeds….nothing goes to waste, it goes to compost.

Turn it, rest it, let the fungi break down the woody stems. Two months later, it’s ready for the garden. And the cycle begins again.

A Week on the Farm | 30 July 2026Late summer skies and sheep seeking shade in unexpected places. The daily work of snipp...
30/08/2026

A Week on the Farm | 30 July 2026

Late summer skies and sheep seeking shade in unexpected places. The daily work of snipping, plating and picking. Back to bobbing for apples and the pigs couldn’t be happier. The season of the hummingbird hawk-moth continues, and we’re as happy about it as pigs in an apple-filled trough.

This week, the flock has been close enough to hear their bleating from bed as you fall asleep on a mattress filled with ...
29/08/2026

This week, the flock has been close enough to hear their bleating from bed as you fall asleep on a mattress filled with their wool. Pigs just up the hill, Shorthorns just to your right as you arrive.

They won’t stay there forever; the animals never stay still for long. A field grazed for a few days, then left alone for weeks or months, while the ground recovers. It looks from a distance like nothing much is happening. Underneath, there’s a whole system of roots reaching down, carbon taken with them, soil building itself stronger for what comes next.

It’s a daily sight you’ll have happened across if you’ve stayed with us this summer. A sliding open of the Refectory doo...
27/08/2026

It’s a daily sight you’ll have happened across if you’ve stayed with us this summer.

A sliding open of the Refectory door. An armful of fennel or kale or courgettes, or whatever the garden has rewarded Shelley’s work and the soil’s perseverance with this week. A Basil supervising the delivery. And an Elly, already several hours at work in turning whatever the fields and garden have just given her into dinner.

A Week on the Farm | 23 August 2026Burnt honey and fennel makes for moorish macarons. Weeding…always weeding. Tomato vin...
23/08/2026

A Week on the Farm | 23 August 2026

Burnt honey and fennel makes for moorish macarons. Weeding…always weeding. Tomato vines finally reached the Greenhouse roof; we laid the table with their fruit and filled the space with chefs to celebrate. Filled, folded and pinched.

The measure of a good day. Late to rise and early to stretch. Eggs collected, breakfast slowly. A wander in the fields t...
23/08/2026

The measure of a good day.

Late to rise and early to stretch. Eggs collected, breakfast slowly. A wander in the fields that becomes, by lunchtime, a picnic in the woods.

The afternoon belongs to you and to the book you’ve never quite gotten around to reading. The bath is longer than expected. The wine is good, and someone else is making dinner tonight.

A day very well spent indeed.

The Farm Table | A Harvest SupperJoin us on 18 September for a special dinner that says farewell to summer, and ushers i...
21/08/2026

The Farm Table | A Harvest Supper

Join us on 18 September for a special dinner that says farewell to summer, and ushers in all of autumn’s flavours.

A Harvest Supper sees us lay long tables beneath apple trees that are starting to wear their autumn coats. Elly and her team will serve a four-course menu that marks the point in the year when the last of the summer crops meet the first of the autumn ones, as we celebrate the changing of the season in the last of the light.

Come and join us in the orchard for one final time this year. Tickets are available on our website now.

A Week on the Farm | 16 August 2026Happy as pigs in topped up wallows. Many hands and garden herbs make light work of ma...
16/08/2026

A Week on the Farm | 16 August 2026

Happy as pigs in topped up wallows. Many hands and garden herbs make light work of macarons for a very special lunch tomorrow. Duck and dashes of the kale relish that has been one of summer’s biggest showoffs. Cooling off and building up. Field eclipses, weaning and weighing, and - finally, far later than hoped and anticipated - tomatoes in abundance.

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