Meadow Sweet Cottage

31/08/2024

Late summer sun at Meadow Sweet Cottage today

25/08/2024

Soon the summer holidays will be over, and the summer sun will turn to autumn leaves, so now is is great time to have a quite relaxing holiday, we have dates for September and October min 4 nights bookings now being taken.

24/08/2024

Dartmoor national Park over looking Okehampton, and just a short drive from Meadow Sweet Cottage

15/08/2024

All ready for the next guest to arrive at Meadow Sweet cottage

06/08/2024

World record attempt at Trefranck Farm, 7th August

We have an exciting event coming up at Trefranck Farm in St Clether by kind permission of Pip and Matt Smith. Una Cameron is going for a 9 hour women's solo strongwool ewe shearing World Record Attempt. The event will take place on 7 August 2024 and the public are welcome.

Una's record will be the sixth shearing World Record to take place at Trefranck farm.

Una will be attempting to break the current 9 hour women's world shearing record of 458 strongwool ewes currently held by Sacha Bond.

Introducing Una
Una Cameron: professional sheep shearer of three decades, and 51 years young. A true inspiration and stalwart of shearing.

Una’s shearing career began in 1995 and since then she has travelled the world following the shearing seasons. She runs her own shearing contracting business in the Scottish Borders, where she lives. Una has done 21 seasons in New Zealand and several in Norway and Australia. For the past 20 years Una has shorn competitively in the open grade, the highest level attainable in competitions. She is the only woman in the UK ever to do so. Una will be the first Scottish woman to attempt a sheep shearing record.

Una has been training since last summer with this record in mind. She spent this past winter shearing in New Zealand, and has busy since shearing with Matt and also on her own run in Scotland, in preparation for the big day in August. Una’s team will be behind her every step of the way and are confident this record attempt will be successful.

Strongwool ewes means in this case that Una will be shearing adult romneys, which must have at least 3kg of wool each to be of world record standard. There are a huge amount of rules set out and governed by the World Sheep Shearing Records Society. International judges will be flying over, their will be 4 judges on the day to scrutinise the quality of Una's work and an animal welfare officer will also be in charge of making sure animal welfare is top priority.

Like any standard (In Australia and New Zealand) shearing day, Una's 9 hour day will start at 5am and comprise separate shearing 'runs'- 5 in total. The first being 2 hours long and each run subsequently lasting 1hour 45 minutes, each separated by half hour or 1 hour breaks finishing at 5pm.

On record day we are running a charity raffle and live auction full of some pretty special prizes, all proceeds to Blood Cancer UK and St Luke's Hospice Plymouth.

Una has chosen these two charities as they mean a lot to herself and the team. In memory of shearer and shearing judge, Alan Kennedy. Also of Margaret Pyke, wife of Trefranck Farm's all round loyal worker, Margaret sadly passed away last year.

We have also set up a GoFundMe page. From there all proceeds will be split 50/50 between the two charities.

There will be refreshments for sale on the day and money raised going to Friends of Altarnun School.

This record, like all others, wouldn't be possible without generous sponsorship, we would like to thank them all.

Please spread the word and come along and cheer her on.

However the event will be live-streamed if you're keen to watch and unable to come, the link will be posted on Una's 9 hour shearing world record page.

06/08/2024

02/08/2024

Sun Sun Sun all the way.

19/06/2024

Lovey day for Jimmy to cut the lawn up at Meadow sweet and thank you Mike for your help cutting the hedges and making the garden look a lot smarter. # visit Dartmoor okehampton

31/05/2024

Trees out in full leaf now, and the woods looking amazing

06/05/2024

So good to see the sun out at last, and the trees starting to come out, but look which is first the Oak tree or the Ash tree, side by side, like they say Oak before the Ash hardly get a splash. Ash before he Oak your in for a some, so let’s see what will happen this year.

20/04/2024

Thank goodness it has stopped raining had a work day at meadow sweet cottage. Filling pot holes along the drive way, cutting the lawn for the first time this year and gardening. Good job done.

06/04/2024

Flowers looking pretty, but sky looking gray over Okehampton’s today

14/03/2024

Did you see this on TV

Who saw last years Cornwall on TV this weekend?
We are so proud that our venison was used in his amazing venison wellington dish, and that we continue to supply
Here is a throwback photo from Rick’s visit last year, and for those of you who didn’t catch the show the link is below.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001jfrp/rick-steins-cornwall-series-3-episode-6

(Series 3 episode 6)

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29/01/2024

Meadow Sweet all ready for 2024 guest to arrive.

24/10/2023

This would be a great early Christmas present for a loved one

25/07/2023

Beautiful view of Dartmoor and Okehampton from Meadow Sweet cottage grounds

26/05/2023

Garden looking amazing @ Visit Dartmoor @ Visit Devon

26/05/2023

It is amazing to think the deer grow a massive set of antlers each year just to impress the Hines, then they drop off, the stages must think that’s a weight off my head

25/05/2023

The heat is on.

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25/05/2023

The sun is out and meadow sweet cottage is all ready for my next guest to come and stay. Visit Dartmoor Visit Devon

04/04/2023

The sun is out the sky is blue and we are looking forward to meeting your lovely guest that are booked in Mendow Sweet Cottage

20/02/2023

Looking forward to seeing pip and Matt on Rick Stein’s tonight 6,30 BBC2

We are delighted to announce that we will feature on Rick Stein’s Cornwall on bbc 2, airing Monday 20th February at 6.30pm.

We would like to thank everyone involved for making this happen and we are looking forward to watching the show!

See you on the screen 😀

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19/01/2023

Great place for a great really good lunch

19/01/2023

So the spring clean begins, on a dry sunny but cold day with the snow on the tops of Dartmoor

05/12/2022

Booking being taken now for 2023, so get booked in early to avoid disappointment.

30/11/2022

Make sure you don’t miss out on your Christmas lunch

21/11/2022

Lovely drive over Dartmoor this morning to Buckfast Abbey. For the visit Dartmoor members meeting. It was great to meet up with friends and we had 4 interesting presentations thank you .

14/10/2022

Still some lovely flowers in the garden

14/10/2022

Great place to buy your meat and also have a delicious lunch

On the farm this morning

13/10/2022

Great th have my handy man , back working again.