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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Trit trot, here come the goats
January 23, 2017
Animals, Derbyshire, Eco, Family, Farm, Goats, Holidays, Peak District, Pygmy goats, Recycling, self catering holiday,Trit trot, trit trot... look who’s arrived at Hoe Grange Holidays! Joining chief guest entertainment officer Fudge the Jack Russel, we would like to introduce you to Luna and Dora the Pygmy goats. These two lovely ladies are definitely not “gruff” goats, but extremely friendly. High on a Peak District hill stood a lonely goatherd...Lay ee odl lay ee odl lay hee hoo! These miniature goats previously lived in Ashbourne with our niece and nephew, who are now grown up and out to work all day. As goats are such social creatures Suzie and Sam...
A day out at Bakewell Market
November 25, 2016
Animals, Bakewell, Cows, Derbyshire, Farm, History, Local, Market,To market, to market to buy a fat pig, home again from Bakewell market, jiggety-jig! Our holiday guests love to see the calves running around the farm fields with their mothers in the Spring, but let's not forget the farm animals are here for a reason. Ours is a beef herd and the calves grow up to be 500kg of glorious Derbyshire prime beef. As the "suckler" cows graze freely in open fields we sell our young animals at about 16 -20 months old before they are fully grown. They then go onto specialist finishing units who feed them up and put the...
Pumpkin carving ideas inspired by The Peak District
October 31, 2016
Animals, Autumn, Derbyshire, Family, Farm, Food and drink, Holidays, Horses, Peak District, pumpkin, recipes,Autumn is in full-swing here in the Derbyshire Peak District; our trees are full of glittering golds and beautiful browns and the nights are drawing in… which means it’s pumpkin carving time! Pumpkins (or Jack-o’-lanterns as they are also known) are traditionally made at Halloween by slicing off the top (to form a lid), scooping out the flesh and then making marks into the orange outer skin, or cutting through the pumpkin skin (caution using sharp tools!) to reveal a flickering candle light inside… very effective and beautiful at night ...
Apple Day Celebrations
October 14, 2016
Apples, Autumn, Derbyshire, Eco, Family, Farm, Food and drink, Holidays, Local, Peak District,Apple Day was first launched in 1990 on 21st October, by Common Ground. The vision was to create a calendar custom, an annual autumn holiday. Apple Day was introduced not just as a celebration of all things apple, but also as a demonstration of the variety we are in danger of losing in the richness and diversity of landscape, ecology and culture too. Over the years Apple Day has also helped raise awareness of the provenance and traceability of food, which can only be a good thing. At Hoe Grange we #LoveLocal and Apple Day events have definitely...
Spring has given way to Summer and we thought you might like to see just how much our farm animals have grown in such a short space of time! Our little Golden Top Bantum dutifully sat on some eggs for 21 days without a break and was rewarded by 3 of the 5 eggs hatching - one with a little help from David! Just seconds old with wet feathers - but mother hen soon warms the chick beneath her fluffy feathers and hey presto all three chicks look all cute and fluffy just a day later! The chicks are now just 6 weeks old and look at the differe...







