Several of my recent guests have been vegetarians, so I can offer a variety of options to accommodate their dietary needs. Vegetarian breakfast options include a full English breakfast with veggie sausages, mushrooms, tomatoes, fried bread, and eggs. Alternatively, we offer a fish-based breakfast, such as kippers or smoked salmon, served with scrambled eggs. AnotherContinue reading “We try to accommodate many dietary requirements.”
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Calves arriving on Friday!
It’s almost mid-August again, and it’s time to bring home this year’s batch of baby calves. This is always a busy but very interesting time in the farming calendar. Preparations have been ongoing for the last few days, washing and disinfecting hurdles, feed buckets, and milk pails. Making up pens and bedding down the sheds.Continue reading “Calves arriving on Friday!”
Delicious Evening Meals at Forda Farm B&B
This week has been very busy in the kitchen with requests for evening meals. Each night, the guests have enjoyed a variety of home-cooked dishes. Upon their arrival, they savored Roast Chicken with roast potatoes and three vegetables, followed by Strawberry Cheesecake and local ice cream. On another evening, the menu featured Steak and AleContinue reading “Delicious Evening Meals at Forda Farm B&B”
A visit from Quality in Tourism inspector.
A Proud Milestone – We’ve Achieved a 4-Star Gold Rating! We’re thrilled to share some exciting news from our little corner of hospitality. Our Bed and Breakfast has been awarded a 4-Star Gold Award following a recent independent quality assessment. This is more than just a plaque on the wall – it’s a symbol ofContinue reading “A visit from Quality in Tourism inspector.”
A View from the Calf Sheds
After a couple of weeks, we are now up to our full quota of 90 young calves arrived home. They are all feeding well and enjoy their milk twice a day. Guests are welcome to come and watch feeding if they are aound at the right time. Roddy has roped Val in to help himContinue reading “A View from the Calf Sheds”
A busy week in the kitchen.
This week I have been busy making a Chocolate Tart, a Treacle tart ( this is one of my husband’s favourites, an amazing Chocolate Fudge Cake ( my youngest son’s favourite ) and an Apple pie. What is your favourite? I love to bake and cook too and find the time spent in my kitchen,Continue reading “A busy week in the kitchen.”
Wonderful Week of Sunshine Forecast
Finally on the first day of June we are forecast a week of sunshine. Will this be our summer? I am hoping this will be the just the start of it. We are busy checking sheep and bullocks across all three farms and waiting for the silage grass to grow. We have taken a tripContinue reading “Wonderful Week of Sunshine Forecast”
Baking this week
Busy in the kitchen this week making scones for guests arriving. How do you like yours? The Devon way, with Clotted Cream first and jam on top or the Cornish way, with jam first and Clotted Cream on top. You decide. I also made this delicious Chocolate Fudge Cake for Roddy and Angus, TWICE. ItContinue reading “Baking this week”
Young Animals on the farm
Pay a visit to Forda Farm Bed and Breakfast in the next few weeks and you will meet these lovely little kittens. They are being hand reared by Val as their mum was unable to manage with so many. Mum still has two with her. These three have been named Smoky, Ginger and Pearl. TheyContinue reading “Young Animals on the farm”
What have we been doing in lock down
We have been missing our guests over the last few months but we have as always been very busy on the farm. We had a successful lambing as the weather was so kind and the sheep went out to the fields with their new born lambs in lovely sunshine and have since grown at quiteContinue reading “What have we been doing in lock down”