Our Peak District Bed and Breakfast is a long low traditional farmhouse. Built from local limestone, it has been added to over the centuries since the 1500's. Our guests have their own entrance, sitting room with television and video, dining room and staircase leading to 2 beautifully decorated en-suite bedrooms with wonderful views south over our lovely garden, and organic farm with grazing cows and sheep.
From March to November we take bookings of two nights or more at the Peak District Bed and Breakfast. From November to March, guests staying in our cottages sometimes book our B&B rooms on a room only basis to enable a couple of extra people to stay. We ask guests not to smoke in our house.
We take great pride in our farmhouse breakfasts , which are carefully and healthily prepared using local and organic produce where possible. Fruit, cereals and home-made yogurt feature along side a delicious traditional farmhouse breakfast (grilled rather than fried). Not forgetting our famous porridges!! Plus home-made bread, toasted with home-made jam - what more could you want to start your day?
Self catering accommodation: We have two beautiful self catering cottages for guests. Little Beechenhill cottage is a tranquil hideaway for two, warm and peaceful in its walled garden. The carefully converted Cottage by the Pond sleeps six and has access for all, including those with wheelchairs. Both cottages have radios, DVD players, videos and we have a small video and DVD library so you can while away cosy evenings.
We are an organic dairy farm in the heart of the Peak District National Park, we have initiated many local sustainable projects and believe passionately in the strength of our local community. We try to live by organic principles; buying local food, using local services, reducing our environmental impact and that of our guests. We believe that it is up to us as farmers to be open about how farming works and why buying local helps everyone.
We nurture our great crested newts. We have hares on the farm. We feed birds and have a huge charm of goldfinches that over winter with us, we also have linnets, fieldfares, winchats, owls, pied wagtails, wrens, wheat ears, skylarks and many more.
To celebrate the millennium we planted an avenue of native trees, each one dedicated to a family who had stayed regularly over the last ten years. Overall we have planted about 1000 trees on the farm since 1984.
We look after and maintain our traditional stone listed buildings. We do most of our building work, but where we do employ, we employ local people. We insulate well and use eco friendly paints where possible eg Sikkens paint has just been used on all the farmhouse window frames. Most of our outside lights are solar powered with PIRs- because we want to appreciate the real darkness and beauty of the stars.
We and our guests separate and recycle paper, cans, plastic, glass and we compost vegetable waste. We grow much of our own food and give surpluses to guests. We only print when necessary and then use recycled paper and we recycle our print cartridges. All paper goods are recycled, loo rolls, kitchen rolls, tissues etc.
Rain water is collected, half goes into a storage tank for use, and half feeds a pond with great crested newts. Most of our toilets are dual flush, we are engaged on a programme of changing the remaining three to dual flush also. We have restored a traditional stone hay barn at present and are using rain water for toilets there. The waste water from the farm is partially cleaned by a small plantation of goat willows.
All the guest accommodation and water is heated by a biomass boiler, replacing two old oil boilers and 4 immersion heaters. Consequently our carbon footprint has reduced from 41 tons to 22 tons.
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