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In the heart of Dartmoor National Park

Shallowford Farm is a medieval working hill farm deep in the Dartmoor National
Park providing a huge range of experiences for young and old. These experiences
can either form part of a residential or day visit to the farm, as a stand-alone
or as part of a series of experiences.

Transofrming lives
Transforming Lives

The education we offer is moulded to suit the needs of every group. Each visit
is unique, served by a superb, experienced team and proved to be
transformational.

Residentials
Residentials & Daytrips

Shallowford Farm has been hosting residential visits to Dartmoor for over 40
years. Staying away from home can be a huge step for some, but with a small
group in a family based farmhouse, plenty of care and sensitivity, visitors
overcome their anxiety and feel proud.







THE SHALLOWFORD TRUST

We work with young people from all and every background and various ages to
catalyse positive change by challenging assumptions and expanding horizons.

By working with groups of young people we encourage individual responsibility
within a team and for each person, to stretch young people to be more
self-reflecting, responsible for their community and our environment and to know
that life is full of opportunities and choices.




OUR MISSION

 * To deliver education by challenging, empowering, encouraging practical work
   through increasing understanding in farm activities and environmental
   responsibility.
 * To encourage empathy, respect, resilience by challenging assumptions to
   discover new opportunities.
 * To present the whole experience within a warm ‘home’, exemplifying the values
   of our Christian ethos, of human life and work.


OUR VALUES

Education is at the heart of all we do at Shallowford Farm underlined by:

– Respect & Appreciation
– Creating opportunities
– Nurturing resilience
– Challenging assumptions


OUR APPROACH

Providing a safe homely environment on a working farm where conservation and
youth work can thrive to inspire every individual.

Home

A safe, nurturing, home where all are welcome.

The most frequent comment used to describe East Shallowford after the word
‘farm’ is ‘home’. With a small team we support each other and visitors as a
family. A safe place in which to be welcomed and for many, to return to. A warm
and nurturing home where rules are clearly defined and maintained, where manners
are encouraged to ensure respect and many who feel unheard can speak safely and
tell their tales.

We are most definitely not a commercial activity centre but a warm place to be
thought of and returned to when the world crashes in.

– Eating around a table, sharing home cooked food and wasting as little as
possible.

– Trying new things, whether this is food, cooking, different clothes, making
beds or living without internet.

– Normal household rules which engender respect; taking shoes off upstairs,
clearing the table, turning lights off and shutting doors in the winter. 

The Farm

A hill Farm with animals. Animals develop empathy and distract from self. Work:
Can be fun, is physical, outside & achievable, is tactile – touching and working
with animals is scary but also liberating

We are the very proud custodians of 82 acres of Dartmoor, ranging from rough
covered moor land, down to the marshland and the West Webburn River. We manage
the land in an increasingly sustainable, low input, semi-organic manner, gaining
a Stewardship Agreement which enables us to use our animals to conservation
graze in order to create habitats suitable for wildlife. Shallowford Farm is
managed in conjunction with our neighbours at Broadaford Farm giving visitor
access to a total of:

 * 50 cows (stabilizers)
 * 290 ewes of which about 15 are White Face Dartmoor
 * 10 pigs (sows) and one boar
 * Lots of different types of chickens, ducks and other poultry
 * 2 cheeky ponies

In 2018 a new large, easily accessible barn was built meaning people of all ages
and abilities can become fully involved, enjoying day to day farming. In 2022,
the Farm Yard was redesigned and new, easily accessible barns were built to
provide all weather protective spaces for outdoor activities and more farm
animals. Experiencing and helping the team with many different tasks forms an
essential part of any visit. Depending on the season activities may include: 

– Lambing (April-May)
– Feeding stock 
– Weighing Stock 
– Moving stock
– Mucking out and bedding up
– Machinery Demonstrations
– Conservation work
– Planting and picking food for home consumption
– Many, many more

These are just a few of the activities that you can get involved with at the
farm, all can be linked back to many curriculum topics, especially around
applied STEM Learning.

Conservation Work

Engenders responsibility and provides perspective for humans within the greater
environment
For oneself; For each other; For nature and the environment around us; Being
valued and trusted as an individual within a larger environment.

We demonstrate that Farming and Conservation can work perfectly together. We
educate visitors on the importance of bio-diversity by taking them to our wilder
spaces on the farm, being truly tactile, full immersion in nature which is
tangible at a level engulfing all senses. Practical Conservation knowledge and
techniques are provided that can be transferred to everyday life, inspire
responsible behaviour and are relevant to the national curriculum.

– Walking along the marsh through the Devil’s Bit Scabious to see the endangered
Marsh Fritillary butterfly

– Pond dipping to explore life through a magnifying lens

– Worm charming to understand the value of the soil on which we stand

– Dry stone walling to perceive hard life of those who worked before us

Youth Work

Challenges assumptions, concepts, views and norms of life and identity,
encouraging growth emotionally, spiritually and physically, increasing skill
levels and academic achievements.

Much of the necessary farm work is natural team-work. Building resilience,
learning empathy, building confidence and responsibility through practical farm
work and animal husbandry. Learning to sweep up, muck out, clear out a pen, feed
the pigs, chickens or sheep.

– Camp fires

– Social interaction and responsibility 

– Good manners and consideration for others

– Eating together around the table

– Sharing stories, real and invented

– Games that stretch the leaders and build a sense of confidence and a desire to
belong


OUR DONORS

As a not-for-profit charity, we are grateful to the many individuals,
organisations, groups and companies for their generous time and financial
support over the years including:

The East Shallowford Farm Development Project: Conversion of East Shallowford’s
Barn into accomodation for up to 27 people. In part funded by: The European
Agricultural Fund for Rural Development: Europe investing in rural areas.











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