Langston South Devon

09/06/2024

‘What a wonderful week in the most incredible house. Utterly idyllic.’ Guestbook May 2024

08/06/2024

Farming by the sea. You can’t beat it.

19/01/2024

It’s a beautiful morning at Langston. Heading back to the house now to look at the progress on our big winter project

02/12/2023

Our lovely local town of Modbury feeling festive last night! The winter weather was perfect and brought out a fine selection of woolly hats. The City of Plymouth Pipe Band led the procession down the hill (and straight into the pub!)

30/11/2023

Well this serves me right for being smug about blue skies and blue seas yesterday!

28/11/2023

A chilly but beautiful morning, doing the rounds of the farm, and definitely a reminder of how lucky we are to live and work here

03/09/2023

Still at it… stop start harvest this year… all wrapped up in Wiltshire, last block of in Devon

25/08/2023

Andrew and Will racing the rain to get the wheat in this evening

21/05/2023

Beautiful sunset from the lambing paddock, unfortunately one or two of the local fox population agree! Old school trick of leaving a radio on as a deterrent, is there still an omnibus of the Archers on a Sunday? That should send them fleeing for the hills…

17/05/2023

Here’s a typical Wednesday at Langston…

Starting with a morning walkabout in some of the nectar mix stewardship plots, crimson clover looking particularly stunning and full of bees 🐝 🐝

Our 30 acres of woodland creation, established in 2020 (during the middle of Covid!) finally benefitting from a much more benign and damp spring. The oaks are really coming to life.

New grain drier delivered and commissioned today, thanks to and a bit of imaginative tandem telehandler work

Another batch of breeding ewes gathered, sorted, loaded and delivered single handed by Holly, off this evening to pastures new a few miles away in Modbury

Cutting the footpaths across the farm, to avoid getting shouted at by the parish council 🙄😃

Helping out a friend and neighbour with some silage, in exchange for a nice cup of tea..

13/05/2023

Our Black Welsh Mountain fleeces
have been put to good use by our friends at
Spindlebrook no-dig Market Garden to mulch their new
blueberries. The amazing Hen at Spindlebrook supplies
and plants out all of the wonderful veg in the Langston
kitchen garden.

01/05/2023

1st of May and lambing in full swing, glorious weather for it. Devon looking at its very best

13/04/2023

Listening to the skylarks and taking in the view.

09/04/2023

Home for lambing
Grass reared Hogget boxes available next month

08/03/2023

Still a few weeks available during 2023... farmhouse luxury, no airport delays and The Dolphin Inn Kingston within walking distance!

18/02/2023

Spring is in the air at Langston. Thanks to our lovely half term guests for these beautiful photos, fantastic to see everyone (including Rocky the Chorkie) out enjoying the lake and the farm walk!

18/01/2023

Chilly. And I did feel sorry for the delivery driver who slid his lorry all the way down the drive only to find out he was at the wrong Langston 🤦‍♂️😳😂

23/12/2022

And it’s another Christmas at beautiful Langston. Some houses just come to life at this time of year and this one’s no exception! !

05/09/2022

96 acres of our finest standing maize at t’other farm in Wiltshire, auctioning this Thursday

Catalogue now available for our on farm standing maize auction on Thursday 8th September. We have a block of 96 acres at Ogbourne St Andrew near Marlborough scheduled for 11am that morning.
https://www.cooperandtanner.co.uk/forthcoming-sales

25/08/2022

Contrary to popular belief - BBC, we’re looking at you - most farms in our area are fully invested in supporting wildlife. This is done quietly and without drama, by people who work with the land every day and appreciate what’s on their doorstep. This year alone we’ve committed over 40 acres of previously arable ground to various schemes including sowing wild bird food, nectar flower mixes and flower rich margins. Our grassland has minimal inputs, no artificial fertiliser, and has been overseeded with herbal keys which provide food and habitat for insect and pollinators. Most days we see hares, corn buntings, deer, skylarks, kestrels, otters and more.

You know those beautiful landscapes of hedgerows and patchwork fields?
Farmers made those.

Are we exceptional? Not at all. These practices have been carried out for years.

Farming - it’s not the problem.

04/08/2022

An early start on the farm this morning but well worth it for the view

28/07/2022

Whilst not working his magic making improvements around Langston, the talented Matthew McCann has been busy furtling away in one of the barns creating this fabulous bespoke and totally authentic shepherd’s hut. We think she’s a beauty and apparently so did everyone else at yesterday’s (great as ever) Yealmpton Show, where he’s been taking commissions for more.
With thanks to Wakehams of Modbury, Sail 88,
Pepe Garden Furniture, BBC Radio Devon, Toad Hall

08/07/2022

Summertime farming…
Combine’s about to roll, barley looking great. low input grass making beautiful hay, no inputs except sheep doing what sheep do.

03/05/2022

Working on establishing plots and admiring stunning skies over Kingston, Modbury and Holbeton this evening

25/04/2022

Giving the new plantations their first haircut of the year. Blue tractor required as it goes best with the flowering OSR!

10/04/2022

Spring has sprung at Langston, both 4 legged and 2 legged visitors enjoying the new growth…

27/03/2022

Final clear up after Storm Eunice !

24/03/2022

How far is the lake from Langston House I hear you ask...... let me take you on a walk on this beautiful day

18/02/2022

Distracting myself from this weather with photos of last summer! Just one week still available this July at our fabulous house. https://www.toadhallcottages.co.uk/holiday-cottages/langston/3111https://www.toadhallcottages.co.uk/holiday-cottages/langston/3111

29/01/2022

If you go down to the woods today…. you might just find Bertram!