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18/07/2024

I’m pleased to say that after a beef free year or so we now have Smallicombe Farm reared Ruby Devon beef available. Individual cuts of beef joints, steaks, mince beef and diced beef available, all individually vac packed and labelled. Also taking orders for whole or half Smallicombe Farm Dorset Down Lamb and have rare breed sausages, pork joints & mutton in the freezer for sale.....Please email or call for more details, [email protected] 01404 831310 Smallicombe Farm holiday cottages

10/07/2024

Some of our little guests are loving the new play kitchen and sand table ❤️ 🧑‍🍳 🏖️

Always lots of things to do for toddlers down on the farm from animal feeding, farm trail with resident fairies, 2 play areas, stream to play in, eggs to collect and pigs to feed…still have some availability in our 1 bedroom cottage over the summer. Perfect for a small family…

04/07/2024

Missed a bit whilst pruning today as found this nest with 3 cute baby birds in. I think they are baby robins but not sure 🤔

16/06/2024

Harry’s opted for a Mohawk this season 🤣🤣 he can’t decide the colour - we have red, green, blue or purple hair spray - what do you think?

13/05/2024

What a difference a day makes, but even on a wet and windy day there always seems to be something to make you happy Some gorgeous little Muscovy ducks greeted me this morning ❤️ 🐥 🐥

23/04/2024

Loving Hattie’s digital Pop-Art of Dizzy ❤️ she’s thinking of doing some other animals from Who do you think she should do next?

Also do you think she should make some cards or postcards to sell to guests in the farmshop?

21/04/2024

Finally dry enough to burn the wood we cleared a few weeks ago from a hedge 🔥 good family activity down on the farm, teaching key life skills🤣 hope you’re all enjoying some family time on this sunny Sunday ❤️

18/04/2024

I finally managed my first of the year! I’m normally an all year round cold water swimmer and love the positive mental and health benefits it brings me. But so far with this years rain, storms and sewage alerts I made the decision to pause my hobby. But after a hard morning working on the farm I decided today was the day to jump back in….all I can say was it was freezing 🥶 and possibly not as enjoyable as I remember 🤣 but now it’s over I feel energised. Hopefully once I’ve acclimatised I’ll love it again 🤞 🏊🏻‍♀️ 🌊 ☀️

We still have availability over the next few months so now the sun is shinning why not book a few days away

15/04/2024

April is my favourite time of year for a walk in the ancient woodland at Smallicombe Farm, the captivating sight of a “carpet of blue” as the bluebells spring into life.

Go to our latest blog to read about the link with bluebells and our resident fairies. 🧚

If you’re not staying with us there is also details of where you can see the bluebells locally to the farm 🥾

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You can roam ancient woodland and marvel at Bluebells in April on the Smallicombe Farm Trail. Favorite local walks to see Bluebells in East Devon.

24/03/2024

Shhhhh…It’s that fairy door maintenance time of year again 🧚‍♀️ for a magical farm holiday look no further than

There is still availability this season, click the link in the bio to book direct ⬆️

👀 🚜 🐷 🐑 🐮 🐓 🦃 🛝 🧚‍♀️

18/03/2024

🌟 🌟 Special offer 🌟 🌟

If you book a 7 night stay for 2024 before the end of March we will include a free session in our wood fired hot tub and a breakfast platter delivered to your cottage on a morning if your choice

Visit our website for more details and availability: link in bio ⬆️

17/03/2024

We’ve been quiet on social media so far this year but super busy on the farm. We’ve lambed 45 ewes, farrowed 4 sows and to top it off Hattie’s rabbits escaped again and these little ones appeared a few days ago 🙈🐰

Its not been an easy start to 2024 weather wise ☔️ but today I finally felt some warmth on my face whilst out on the farm 🐷 🐑 🐮 🐔 🦆 🐇 🦃 🌞

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26/01/2024

You can imagine the level and of excitement with the email Matt received yesterday….i think a few of our regulars will be excited about this new too. We currently still receive our internet via a satellite dish Matt installed during lockdown so the girls good log into homeschooling!!

06/01/2024

Loving our new security cameras we have just installed in our farrowing and lambing pen ❤️ here is a screen shot of our lop pig relaxing with her 15 piglets that were born last night…

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01/01/2024

Not quite the New Year I had planned!!! Currently trying to lamb a sheep with twins and ring womb 🙈 going to be a long night….

06/10/2023

We have fresh chipolata sausages, bacon, gammon, pork joints, pork belly and tenderloin from our rare breed pigs. Message me or give me a call if you are interested 😋

22/09/2023

14/09/2023

⭐️⭐️ New Season Lamb, Mutton (minced and diced), Sausages, Gammon, Pork and duck now available direct from Smallicombe Farm holiday cottages ⭐️⭐️

All born and raised on the farm 🐷🦆🐑

I couldn't decide on photo for this post but then found a much younger version of Matt at a famers market 😂

The lamb can boxed up as 1/4, half lamb or we have joints and chops to buy indivually.

All meat has been locally butchered and vac packed.

02/09/2023

Some fantastic events on offer at the Taste East Devon festival. We still have availability over the 2 week period and there is also still space on our ‘farm to fork’ or ‘pig keeping course’

19/08/2023

Great Tapas and Cocktail night last night. Shame we weren’t sipping cocktails in their fabulous gardens! 💨 🌧️ but the food and cocktails were amazing, I’ll definitely be back on a sunnier day to explore.

19/07/2023

Really excited about offering two courses during the fabulous Taste East Devon festival in September. Book onto a family friendly ‘Farm to Fork’ morning or afternoon or come and spend the day with us on a ‘Pig Keeping Course’

Find out more about them in our latest news article:

https://www.smallicombe.com/2023/07/19/taste-of-east-devon-festival-2/

If you fancy attending a few events and making a couple of days of it why not come stay with us Smallicombe Farm holiday cottages 😍

East Devon Excellence Devon Farms & Country Stays

Food festival with events run by River Cottage, Lympstone Manor, Darts Farm, Ebb Tide, Sidmouth Gin and Smallicombe Farm in September 2023.

15/07/2023

If you’re still looking for things to do this summer we still have a few short break’s available . A working farm in Devon. Quote ‘summer15%’ to get 15% off our advertised prices:

Granary (sleeps 4/5):
24th July 4 nights
Inglenook (sleeps up to 4 with a sofa bed)
21st July up to a week
4th August 3 nights
18th August - 1st September
The Sty (sleeps 2 plus cot/z-bed)
5th August 2 nights
15th August 3 nights
Hayloft (2 adults)
21st July 4 nights
31st July 4 nights

10/07/2023

Excited to say that you can now buy local East Devon Nature Reserve Charcoal at our farm shop. Whilst staying with us you can cook your yummy Smallicombe Farm sausages using charcoal made from Offwell wood 🪵 follow the link in the bio to read our latest blog about how it is made and the advantages of chemical free charcoal 😆

26/06/2023

24/06/2023

Hattie and Matt loved their classic car mechanics lesson on a 1920’s Rolls-Royce from our lovely guests 😆

12/06/2023

so the 72 hour wait begins….wish my girls luck 🍀

29/05/2023

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29/05/2023

Some very sleepy new born piglets 💕 🐷

27/05/2023

Quietly watching a pig farrow and noticed these little swallows waiting for their tea 💕

03/05/2023

👑👑 Coronation weekend availability 👑👑

Anyone looking to escape the crowds this weekend? We still have availability down on the farm 🐷 🐑 🐮 🐓 🦆 🦃 🚜 🧚‍♀️

is on the Devon Dorset border, 20 minutes from the Devon Coast. Under 3 hours drive from London and ~1 1/2 hours from Bristol.

Special Offer prices start from £225 for a couple and £325 for a family. Call 01404 831310 for more info 🌟

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Smallicombe Farm
Colyton
EX246BU

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http://www.smallicombe.com/

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And relax 👍🍾 finally the cows and sheep winter feed safe from the elements! 🌧️ Move to the family farm they say, a more relaxing way of life they say…..I can tell you that waking up at 4.30am to the sound of unforcasted rain and then having to wait all day for the baler was not fun 🙈🙈🙈 not sure how much I’ve aged today!!! 💤 Never a dull moment @smallicombe_farm #andrelax #rurallife #farmexperience #weatherforecast #rain #haymaking #visitdevon #neveradullmoment #stayonafarm #visitafarm #notrelaxing #winterfeed

That’s one way of cooling down 🤣🤣 🥵 🐷 This Berkshire Boar seems to have mistaken his water trough for a plunge pool! #hot #rarebreedpig #berkshire #onewaytocooloff #neveradullmoment #ruraltravelguide #eastdevonly #visitdevon #stayonafarm @devonfarmholidays

Aww our first lambs went out into the field today….I could watch these little lambs running around all day, they are loving life 💕 #cute #littlelambs #lambinglive #newlife #eastdevon #visiteasrdevon #rurallife @devonfarmholidays @eastdevonexcellence

There was a little maternity ward set up @smallicombe_farm this morning…scanning the ewes to see if they were pregnant and if so how many they had. We then separate out the twins and triplets (and our first quad for a few years!) so we can feed them on 🐑 #newlife #busymorning #lambinglive #funonthefarm #visitdevon #febhalfterm #lambs #maternity #scan #rurallife #quads #dorsetdown

Decided to use Hattie’s pumpkin for some pig enrichment activities this morning… 🍏 🎃 🐷 #pumpkin #britishlop #apple #funonthefarm #stayonafarm #visitdevon #enrichment #familyholiday #halloween @devonfarmholidays @parentfriendlystays @awaywiththekids

It’s that time of year again…off with the winter coats! They definitely look much cooler and Harry even had a proper hair cut this year rather than the lock down Mohican he had last year 😂 #muchcooler #cool #shearing #itshot #rurallife #visitdevon #farmstay #wakeupincountry #eastdevon #ruralcottage

We’re all as busy as this Bee today @smallicombe_farm….it’s second TB test day 🤞🤞, AI’ing the cows, bailing the grass and dagging sheep before sheering next week…exhausting 💤 #bee #busybusy #amazing #nofilterneeded #pollen #tb #bailing #lotsofjobs #busydayonthefarm @devonfarmholidays @eastdevonexcellence

A lovely surprise in one of our other bird boxes this morning...I can see 6 baby birds but not sure what they are, any ideas? #chicks #lovelysurprise #hatchingeggs #spring #greatfind #makingmemories #holidaywithfamily #ruralescape #countryliving #farmlife

‘We’re all going on a bear hunt’ when Hattie got home from school last night she told me she was going to explore one of our ancient woodlands......an hour later she came home with this video on her iPod 💕 What adventure are you planing this weekend? #ancientwoodland #eastdevonaonb #loveeastdevon #eastdevon #deerofinstagram #deer #ruralescape #adventure #kidsadventure #wildlife #makingmemories

We are so lucky to have the amazing charity the Devon Air Ambulance servicing the community. We went for a fabulous walk on Jurassic coast this morning and came across their new helicopter helping a lady who had broken her ankle 🚁 #greatcharity #airambulance #jurassiccoast #fabulouswalk #greatviews #familytime #eastersunday #staycation #visitdevon

Finally free! The day was a happy day for our Muscovy ducks, turkeys & chickens as they were finally allowed out if there secure pens 🥰 they’ve been in lockdown since December due to cases of bird flu.. #happydays #spreadyourwings #lockdown #birdflu #finally #freerangechickens

Little red tractor being moved into the playarea with a helping hand from our neighbours big blue tractor! Had to remove the fence to get it in 🤦‍♀️ #tractor #newplayarea #outdoorplay #staycation #gettingreadyforsummer #funonthefarm

Ruby, a first time mum, gave birth to little Maya last night (named by Hattie) Mum and calf both doing well 💕 🐮 🐷 🐓 🦆 🐑 🧚‍♀️ We still have availability this season if you want to come an meet the animals at Smallicombe www.Smallicombe.com #rubydevon #firsttimemum #newlife #rurallife #stayonafarm #visitdevon #staycation #farmlife Away with the Kids Kiddieholidays Parent Friendly Stays Devon Farms Holidays

Not only do we have baby lambs but 13 little British Lop piglets arrived in the early hours of Friday morning...Hattie insisted on being woken up when mum started to farrow and true to her word she went out in her pj’s at 1am to see a few being born 💕 🐷 Devon Farms Holidays Farm Stay UK Kiddieholidays Away with the Kids

New-born Berkshire piglets and all about Smallicombe Farm

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The Story behind Smallicombe Farm

Hello, my name is Karen and I am part of the family team that runs Smallicombe Farm. In team Smallicombe there are; my Mum and Dad, Maggie and Ian, my husband, Matt, and my two girls, Megan and Hattie.

Smallicombe is a small farm in the picturesque corner of Devon just on the Dorset/Devon border. There has been a farm here for over a thousand years with an entry in the Domesday Book, but we’ve only been here for the last forty. The farm has been my family home since the mid-eighties. I grew up here and then moved away for about 15 years before deciding, with a husband and baby in tow, to return the farm.

Mum was always the driving force for the holiday business whereas Dad’s focus is and always has been his rare breed pigs. We also have a flock of Dorset Down sheep, a herd of Ruby Devon cattle and a various poultry and ducks on the 80 Acre holding.

We returned to ‘lighten the work-load’ for Mum and Dad, who had hoped to retire, although they may argue we have increased the load over the years! After years in the rat race I wanted to return to what I love – farming and the countryside. Since returning we have slowly upgraded and modified the holiday cottages, B&B and facilities to how they stand today.