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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Tourism Week Visit
March 16, 2012
Accessible Holidays, Derbyshire, Farm, General, Peak District, Tourism,MP and Tory Chief Whip, Rt Hon Patrick McLoughlin, visited Hoe Grange Holidays today on a tour of local tourism businesses in the Derbyshire Dales as part of National Tourism Week. Patrick looked around our award winning, self catering log cabins and was interested to discuss the tourism industry at grass roots level. He was particularly interested in how we attract guests by offering specialist facilities for two niche markets; guests with accessibility requirements and guests bringing their own horses on holiday to explore the fabulous Peak ...
A Tale of Two Tractors
February 28, 2012
Building, Family, Farm, Harvest, Peak District, Tourism, Tractor,David is following in the footsteps of his Great Grandfather, William Brown, by constructing a tractor for Hoe Grange. Although slightly different! Tedding the hay with a Model T Model T with mid mounted mower Great Grandpa's tractors were constructed in the 1930's using Ford Model T cars as their base. Tractors were hard to come by and expensive, so these machines were cleverly adapted for various jobs around the farm from cultivating, and mowing to tedding or turning the hay. William Brown was an amazing engineer who was ahead of his time ...
Oreo our Belted Galloway cow, has had a beautiful bull calf. Oreo has the characteristic white belt around her middle which gives the name to this native breed, but isn't a certified pedigree as she has a large black round spot on one side of her white flank. However her new baby has excellent markings with a proper full white belt - he is very handsome, shame he's not a heifer! Baby Beltie Meanwhile Shepherd Elliot has been tending to his older sheep, Tia and Maria and Coco and Chanel, giving them an injection of copper in preparation fo...
A smiling Elliot "6 months later" We are delighted to report that our resident artist, Roger Allan, has had his watercolour painting of our son Elliot accepted for the Royal Watercolour Society's Contemporary Watercolour Exhibition at the Bankside Gallery in London, which runs from 24th February until 14th March 2012. You may remember this painting is a follow up to "Boy with the broken arm" which depicted a glum looking Elliot with his arm in a sling, in front of a Derbyshire winter landscape with a dead sheep in the background. Extremely art...
During the winter months is the ideal time to do any restoration work on our traditional dew ponds around the farm. Following on from last year when we de-sludged three of our ponds to improve the habitat for wildlife, this year we have, with help from the Derbyshire Amphibian and Reptile Group cleared a large part of the overgrown pond at the farm entrance. This pond has a history of being home to a very large colony of Great Crested Newts. During the winter, while the newts are living away from the water, it is permitted to work on such p...







