Holiday at Wheatland Farm, Devon, in green accommodation that cares for your stay and the environment. Entirely powered by renewable energy (mostly from our own wind turbine), your holiday will be comfortable, sustainable, relaxing and inspiring.

Stay in one of our three comfortable self catering eco lodges. Or try Otter Cottage, by the farm pond (with wood burner).

Whether you want a base in North Devon, love nature, want to walk with your dog, cycle the glorious Devon countryside, or just relax with a book, our self catering accommodation is for you. Both North Devon and northern Dartmoor are within easy reach of our lodges and cottage, and there are lots of ideas for Devon days out on our growing blog - please add your thoughts!

Welcome to Wheatland Farm in the heart of Devon

Devon Wildlife Trust approved Gold award

Green Tourism Business Scheme Gold award

Our electric vehicle charging points are fully installed and ready to go. They were donated by Zero Carbon World (Thanks guys!) who want to free motorists from having to carry lots of different smart cards around when they travel. It's much more simple here. Just ring Ian on 07780 708 747 if you want to recharge your car. It's free to guests (or come without a car at all!) and costs £15 to non guests. If the farm shop's open...

Happy New Year - January 2012 is starting with a grey sky but at least there are still holly berries to cheer up the gloom.

When it's quieter the wildlife comes closer, like fox in front of the lodges. In towns and countryside they can be pests. But if you ask me that's no reason to kill them. We'll be shutting up the chickens early, and maybe encouraging Muttley to be out around the house in the day though...

We're celebrating, drinking Devon bubbly from Pebblebed wines because the wind turbine has put our cottage and lodges (and our house) back in energy credit. Ie it has now caught up and overtaken our overall consumption despite a busy 'season'.

Short winter days with watery sunlight and a flowering out of the gradual decay. This delicate fleshy 'ear fungus' growing (characteristically) on dead elder. And a purple beauty...

Our hard working WWOOF volunteers have been helping us clear scrub on Popehouse Moor. This is part of our Higher Level Stewardship management to reclaim some of the culm grassland lost to encroaching brambles and willow. It's hard going, with boot grabbing mud, but you warm up once the fire is going. This section is at the western end and will lessen the barrier between Popehouse Moor and Lower Newland Moor...

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Short Breaks Exploring North Devon

Holidaying with children

Walking, cycling, fishing, good food and pubs - Devon has it all. We're open year-round and offer short breaks all year apart from 6 weeks in the summer school holidays. We are in the heart of Devon yet offer incredibly peaceful surroundings. Many guests just come to relax and chill out. Order some Devon delicacies from our neighbour's farm shop or let the nearby award-winning pub kitchens take the strain! Stride out on Dartmoor, borrow our reclaimed bikes, leave the car behind for a day and go exploring on the bus, let us take you on a guided nature walk or just take your book down to the woodland pond on Popehouse Moor.

Holidays for dogs too...

Why put your dogs in kennels when they'll be welcome here at Wheatland Farm? Ask us about good dog walks - we can lend you maps too. Most Devon pubs welcome well-behaved dogs, and dogs are welcome everywhere on the farm apart from the 7 acre SSSI nature reserve. More information about bringing your pets on our 'dogs welcome' page. Come and meet Muttley!

Children love the space Wheatland Farm offers - 21 acres to explore, managed for wildlife and your enjoyment. Kids can visit the cows in summer, collect eggs from the hens, fish the small pond and play on the swings and slide. Older children particularly enjoy the free-to-borrow bikes and the mown volleyball / badminton court. North Devon's attractions are within easy reach, and after a great day, there's outdoor space for children to be out from under your feet when you're cooking - or why not all decamp to the Kings Arms in Winkleigh for a family friendly pub meal. More about family holidays on our 'children welcome' page.

Hi Ian/ Maggie,

Just wanted to drop you a quick email to say a huge thank you from all of us for a fabulous New Year at Wheatland Farm! We all had the best New Year ever. Despite the drizzly weather the little ones especially enjoyed splashing around in their wellies and playing out in the beautiful outdoors, we all enjoyed a few 'en mass' outings into Winkleigh - don't think the locals quite knew what had hit them! And I hope our singing and celebrating at New Year didn't disturb you or your neighbours too much. We hope we didn't leave too much mess behind in the lodges - I didn't get chance to check them all out before I left (I was on Doris dog walking duty whilst they cleared out - to tire her out in preparation for the drive home!).

Thanks again for your hospitality and hosting a wonderful break - we'd love to come back next New Year if you'll have us?!

Back to reality for us all today - we all have a terrible case of Holiday Blues!

Kind Regards,

Leah

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Sustainable Tourism

Sustainable tourism is at the very heart of our Devon self catering cottage and lodges. So come and find out how easy it is to go green. Check out our enivronment policy, our 'greening' blog where we record how we strive to make the business sustainable, and our facebook page - for the more informal stuff! We also accept volunteers throug the WWOOF scheme (World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms). If you're a WWOOFer and want to stay please see our volunteering page and get in touch. For more about our awards see our Sustainability Awards page.

We're a low impact 'green' business, (with gold approval from both the Green Tourism Business Scheme and the Devon Wildlife Trust) but you don't need to be super-green to stay here - it's for everyone. Relax in the tranquil haven of 21 acres managed exclusively for Devon's wildlife and your enjoyment. Let us make your self catering holiday or off-season short break easier by ordering local food ahead. And if you come without the car we'll collect you from the station or bus...

home t. 01837 83499, email info@wheatlandfarm.co.uk, Wheatland Farm, Winkleigh, Devon, EX19 8DJ.