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Renovating beautiful self-catering holiday cottages in the Blackdown Hills in East Devon

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2025 orchard harvest has begun

17th Aug 2025 leyfarmcottages

A little earlier than in previous years, this week our 2025 fruit season officially started. We’re having really difficulties this year navigating wasps, birds, squirrels

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Starting our winter gardening jobs

17th Nov 2024 leyfarmcottages

This week seems to have gone very quickly. With changeovers every Sunday at the moment, we only really have one day to spend catching up

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Fixing things to walls

29th Sep 2024 leyfarmcottages

It feels like we’ve spent a good chunk of this weekend fixing things to walls and doors. Our [very lovely] third guests are staying with

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Tidying up outside

22nd Sep 2024 leyfarmcottages

We’ve made the most of the good weather this week to try and catch up with some outdoor jobs. In the orchard, we weeded the

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Beam reclamation and general garden tidying

27th Nov 2022 leyfarmcottages

Our building plans continue to progress slowly – we’re still waiting for the council to make their minds up about our fourth planning application (to

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Surviving the heatwave, seasoning wood and more planning application drama 

14th Aug 2022 leyfarmcottages

It feels like we’ve spent most of this week trying to stop everything dying in the heatwave – much like the rest of the country!

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