Browse through our blog posts to find out what life is like at Hoe Grange Holidays along with some great ideas for days out in the Peak District.
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Spring seems to have arrived here at Hoe Grange Farm with glorious sunshine, dancing golden daffodils, birds singing from the budding trees and lambs gamboling across the fields. Our orphan lambs are now three weeks old and thriving. There are two new additions, Coco and Chanel, who join Tia and Maria in the garden for some fun - watch our video! Our horses are loosing their winter coats by the handfull leaving patches of hair in the fields where they have been rolling - great for the birds building their nests. We went to the Gadget ...
Our resident watercolour artist Roger Allen recently opened his one man exhibition in Buxton at the Museum and Art Gallery. We attended the preview on March 6th and we were pleasantly surprised by the number of his paintings that showed our dairy herd that was sold last summer. It bought a bit of a lump to the throat to see the cows that we knew so well. One of the largest pictures named 'The collecting yard' showed the cows feeding in the yard waiting to be milked. We both thought that it would be nice to have that painting but unfortunately ...
We need your help ! It’s nearly Easter and we have taken on two lovely kade lambs from a neighbouring farm. They are Mule sheep which can be seen in their hundreds around the Peak District and Derbyshire. The two girls, who are currently nameless, need an identity- let us have your suggestions for both girls. The current favourites are 'Tia and Maria'. David wanted to call them 'Mint and Sauce', but I overruled that one. Tia Maria & Ellliot Especially for Jackie from Brackendale Spa, an avid reader of our blog, try this excellent las...
Meanwhile up in Perth at the Island Leisure factory work commences on our new Rainster log cabin. The basic framework is put in place with all the doors and windows - notice that on this new model we have included a porch for all your coats and wellies, which will be much more practical than a shoe box in the lounge! The cabin will also have the same fantastic accessible facilities as our popular Hipley cabin with full wet room shower and grab rails, also great for hosing down the muddy children after an adventurous day out in the Peak Di...
One of the very few negative comments that past visitors have made about Hoe Grange is the poor state of the drive up to the farm yard. Particularly those with converted wheelchair accessible cars. Well the time has come to do something about it. With the arrival of the first load of Tarmac the anticipation was tremendous, would we really have a drive that would not shake you to to pieces. As the morning progressed we could begin to imagine what the final outcome would be like. More Tarmac And then by late lunch time (and 160 tonnes of Ta...







