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Experience life on a working hill farm in the Yorkshire Dales 🐏
Farm animal experiences 🐑
Alpaca trekking 🦙
Lamb feeding 🍼
School & group visits welcome! 🚜
Farmhouse stays & camping available 🏡🏕️
Book your visit through our website! 💻 Small camping ground for 3 tents in the enclosed orchard garden and hardstanding for 3 camper vans in a beautiful location with magnificent views and lots of good walks.

Sorry we’ve been a little quiet on social media over the last couple of weeks. Things have been busy here at Hazel Brow,...
29/09/2026

Sorry we’ve been a little quiet on social media over the last couple of weeks. Things have been busy here at Hazel Brow, with lots going on both on and off the farm! 🐑

Firstly, we had a good reason for being away! 💍 On 19th September, Emily and Sam tied the knot back in Nottinghamshire, where they both grew up and where their families still live. This meant Emily, Sam and Cath all heading south for the celebrations. Although, in true farmer style, we were never too far away from something agricultural, as you can probably tell from the photo! 🚜

Back at Hazel Brow, summer is coming to an end and that means a change in our grazing and feeding strategies. We’ve been busy moving stock onto fresh grazing and forage ready for the changing season, even the geese have been on the move 🪿

We’ve had plenty of help from Cath’s grandchildren too, including one very keen young farmer who has recently started his very own flock of Icelandic sheep. He’s already proving to be a brilliant shepherd and taking his new responsibilities very seriously 🐑

It’s also been another really busy month for our care farming at Hazel Brow, welcoming some fantastic groups including Walkers’ Britain, Richmond Walking & Book Festival and Dementia Forward, just to name a few. We have lots more groups booked in over the coming months and are really excited to welcome them.

Thanks to our National Lottery Community Fund Awards for All funding, we may be able to offer fully funded Care Farming visits to eligible community, educational and care groups. Visits can be tailored around your group and can include animals, farming, nature and practical activities in a relaxed and supportive environment.

And remember, if getting to Hazel Brow is difficult, we can bring the farm to you through our outreach sessions too!

If you have a group that you think could benefit, please get in touch with Emily at [email protected] to find out more.

What a busy week it’s been for farmers around Swaledale & Wensleydale! 🏆🐑🐂🌸🧁 This year, all three of our local agricultu...
04/09/2026

What a busy week it’s been for farmers around Swaledale & Wensleydale! 🏆🐑🐂🌸🧁

This year, all three of our local agricultural shows fell within the space of just five days, so it’s certainly been a busy one for everyone getting livestock, crafts and produce ready for the show field!

Lots of friends of Hazel Brow Farm have been out and about showing their sheep, cattle, crafts and produce, and we even had the pleasure of bumping into some familiar faces from our Livestock & Landscape group along the way.

Joe, Harry and Seth did a brilliant job showing their Dexter cattle at Wensleydale Show on Saturday, even coming away with Champion! We saw them again at Reeth Show with their big team of sheep, where they added a few more well earned rosettes to the collection. Well done guys!

It was also great to see Theo enjoying Reeth Show and having a good look around the sheep classes. After spending the summer learning about different parts of farming through Livestock & Landscape, it was lovely to see some of the group out enjoying their local agricultural shows and continuing that interest outside our sessions.

Finally, Wednesday brought us to Muker Show, a very special traditional Dales show and an important date in the Swaledale farming calendar. Shows like Muker are about so much more than competitions, they bring farming families and the wider community together, celebrate the livestock, skills and traditions of the dale, and help keep an important part of our rural heritage alive for future generations.

Agricultural shows take an enormous amount of work from exhibitors, organisers, volunteers and everyone behind the scenes, but they remain such an important celebration of farming and rural life.

Have a look through the photos and see who you can spot! 😁🐑🐄🏆

Last week we had the pleasure of welcoming Mind to Hazel Brow Farm for a funded Care Farming visit! 💙🐑🦙We spent the sess...
01/09/2026

Last week we had the pleasure of welcoming Mind to Hazel Brow Farm for a funded Care Farming visit! 💙🐑🦙

We spent the session meeting some of our animals, taking the alpacas and goats for a stroll, and learning a little more about farming and life here at Hazel Brow. It was lovely to welcome the group and spend some relaxed time together out on the farm.

The visit was fully funded thanks to The National Lottery Community Fund, as part of our Care Farming initiative, which is helping us provide opportunities for more people to experience the benefits of farming, animals, nature and the countryside.

If you work with a community, care or educational group, we may be able to fully fund a visit to Hazel Brow Farm for your group too. Sessions can be tailored around different needs and abilities, with a range of farm, animal and nature based activities available.

To find out more or see if we may be able to support your group, please contact Emily at [email protected].

We’d love to hear from you!

27/08/2026

Livestock & Landscape group 2026 🚜🐑

What a brilliant six weeks it has been.

Now that our first Livestock & Landscape summer youth group has come to an end, I wanted to say a proper thank you to every young person and family who supported it. For our first year running something like this, the response has meant a huge amount to us and has shown us just how worthwhile opportunities like these can be.

This is something I personally feel very strongly about. Coming from a non farming background myself, I know that finding a way into agriculture when you aren’t the next generation of a farming family can feel incredibly daunting. For a young person with an interest in farming or the countryside but no obvious pathway into the industry, it can sometimes seem almost impossible to know where to begin.

One of the main aims of Livestock & Landscape was to help bridge that gap.

We wanted to give young people interested in farming, conservation, land management and the wider rural sector somewhere they could come, get involved, ask questions, meet people already working in the industry and begin developing practical skills and knowledge, regardless of their background or previous experience.

And what an amazing group of young people we’ve had!

From livestock enthusiasts and budding shepherds to those who could teach us a thing or two about renewable energy, every person brought their own interests, knowledge and personality to the group. They have been such a polite, clever, enthusiastic and determined bunch, and I have absolutely no doubt they will all go far, whether that’s within the rural sector or in something completely different.

Over the six weeks we’ve covered sheep farming, dry stone walling, traditional hay meadows, conservation and environmental schemes, land management, the livestock trade, cattle, farm diversification, animal handling and plenty more along the way.

Agriculture and the wider rural sector teach such a huge range of transferable skills. Practical ability, problem solving, resilience, responsibility, communication, teamwork and an understanding of the environment around us. Even if none of our group ultimately chooses a rural career, I hope everyone has taken something useful away from their time with us.

But if we have managed to provide even one small spark that eventually encourages a young person towards a career in farming or the countryside, what a privilege that would be.

Farming should not feel like a closed industry. Not inheriting a farm should not mean you cannot become a farmer, and your gender, disability, age, race, religion or background should never make you feel that the rural sector isn’t somewhere you belong. There may be different routes and challenges to overcome, but if a young person has the interest and determination, we want to help them see what is possible.

The support we’ve received this summer has made us even more certain that there is a need to bridge the gap between young people and rural careers, and we would really like Livestock & Landscape (or something similar) to continue.

To help us demonstrate that need and hopefully secure support for future opportunities, we’d love to hear from you. Whether your young person attended this summer, wanted to but couldn’t, or you simply think opportunities like this are needed, please email me at [email protected] with your thoughts. Your feedback really does help us evidence the value of this work.

And finally, another enormous thank you to the young people themselves, but just as importantly to the parents and families who gave up their Wednesday mornings during the summer holidays, travelled into Swaledale and made sure they could take part. I’ve loved getting to know you just as much, and we’ve certainly had plenty of laughs along the way! And a special thank you to Cath for trusting me to run with this idea and giving me the opportunity and support to run these sessions.

Thank you all so much 😁

Emily
Hazel Brow Farm

Livestock & Landscape – Session 6 🦙🐐🐑 And just like that, we’ve reached our sixth and final Livestock & Landscape sessio...
26/08/2026

Livestock & Landscape – Session 6 🦙🐐🐑

And just like that, we’ve reached our sixth and final Livestock & Landscape session!

For our final morning, we focused on another really important part of modern farming: farm diversification.

For many farms today, producing livestock or crops is just one part of keeping a farming business sustainable. Diversification can provide additional sources of income while making the most of the farm, its landscape, skills and resources.

We had a look at some of the different ways Hazel Brow Farm has diversified whilst remaining a busy working farm, from the animals and experiences we offer to visitors, to our educational visits, Care Farming and work with community and social groups.

Of course, we couldn’t just talk about it! We took the alpacas out for a trek around Low Row village before heading back to the farm for a quick introduction to halter training and sheep showing. 🦙🐑

We even have some young shepherds within the group who have been busy training their own sheep ready to compete at Reeth Show on Monday, we’ll be keeping our fingers crossed for them! 🏆

This was the final session of our very first Livestock & Landscape summer youth group, and a bigger thank you post will be coming, but I couldn’t finish today without saying a huge thank you to every young person and family who has turned out and supported us over the past six weeks.

I’ve genuinely had such a great time getting to know you all. Every young person has brought something different to the group, and it has been brilliant watching them get involved, ask questions, share their own knowledge and have a go at something new.

Whether their futures are in farming, conservation or another part of the rural sector, or they end up doing something completely different, I really think they’ll all go far.

This is absolutely something we want to do more of at Hazel Brow Farm, and after the support we’ve received this summer, we definitely think we can.

Thank you for making our first Livestock & Landscape group such a lovely one!

- Emily 😁

🥾 Sharing on behalf of the Richmond Walking & Book Festival, as we’re delighted that this year’s ‘The Impact of the Chan...
26/08/2026

🥾 Sharing on behalf of the Richmond Walking & Book Festival, as we’re delighted that this year’s ‘The Impact of the Changing Nature of Farming’ walk will be stopping off at Hazel Brow Farm! 🥾

Richmond Walking and Book Festival :

The impact of the changing nature of farming ( 7.5 mile walk on Monday 21st September)

Interested in how today’s changes in funding, in climate and environmental concerns are once again re-shaping the lives of people in the area and the countryside through which the walk passes ? A walk over lovely upland moorland and valley pasture around the Low Row and Helaugh area with splendid views and evidence of the industrial and agricultural heritage throughout. En route walkers will stop off at Hazel Brow Farm in Low Row (a working farm that has constantly sought to adapt and diversify) and hear from its owner how they have coped with the ever changing demands and the impact on the area.

For more details and to book visit the festival website https://www.booksandboots.org/Programme/Whole-Programme

OUR HERITAGE TRAIL IS NOW OPEN! 🧶🧵🪡 We’re excited to announce that our Hazel Brow Farm Heritage Trail is officially open...
24/08/2026

OUR HERITAGE TRAIL IS NOW OPEN! 🧶🧵🪡

We’re excited to announce that our Hazel Brow Farm Heritage Trail is officially open! 🥾🐑

Come and discover another side to Swaledale as you follow our new self-guided trail through the landscape surrounding Hazel Brow Farm and Low Row.

Swaledale may seem peaceful today, but it was once a hive of activity, with people working in the textile, knitting and lead-mining industries. Low Row itself was once home to three pubs, two shops, two chapels and a church!

Along the approximately 1.4-mile trail, you’ll discover some fascinating pieces of local history, including:

🧶 Paradise – a former house and textile workshop, with the oldest part dating back to 1653

🌊 Isles Bridge – built in 1835 after an earlier wooden bridge was swept away by flooding

💦 Hatter’s Syke – a beautiful little stream and waterfall, with “syke” being the local word for a small stream

🐑 Traditional Swaledale hay meadows, field barns and our distinctive Swaledale sheep

🧵 Stories of Swaledale’s once thriving wool and knitting industry, when men, women and children would even knit while walking!

🦉 Plus plenty of opportunities to enjoy the landscape and look out for local wildlife including lapwings, oystercatchers and barn owls.

The circular walk begins and ends at Hazel Brow Farm, is approximately 1.38 miles / 2.22km and takes around one hour at a relaxed pace. There are a few short steep and muddy sections, so sensible footwear is recommended. 🥾

£5 per car – covering a family/group of up to 5 people and parking for one car.

Our Heritage Trail is designed as a completely self-guided experience, allowing you to arrive at your booked time and enjoy the trail independently and at your own pace. As such, a member of the Hazel Brow team may not always be present to welcome you on arrival, but everything you need to follow and enjoy the route is provided in our Heritage Trail guide.

Please also be aware that this experience does not include meeting, feeding or handling our farm animals. If you’d like an interactive animal experience, take a look at our Farm Animal Experience instead. 🐐🐑🦙

🚻 Toilets and hand-washing facilities available
🥪 Bring a picnic and make a day of it
🚗 Parking included
📖 Heritage Trail guide available to help you explore

A lovely way to spend an hour discovering the stories, landscape and heritage that have shaped this little corner of Swaledale.

Booking is essential! book your Heritage Trail visit and find more information through our website!

https://hazelbrowfarm.org/bookings/heritage-trail-coming-soon/

Livestock & Landscape – Session 5 🐄📣We had another brilliant Livestock & Landscape session today with a trip to Leyburn ...
19/08/2026

Livestock & Landscape – Session 5 🐄📣

We had another brilliant Livestock & Landscape session today with a trip to Leyburn Auction Mart, learning all about how a livestock market works, the British cattle industry and the important role livestock trading plays within our farming communities.

We were able to watch cattle being sold through the auction ring and had some fun trying to keep up with the auctioneers prices and work out what each lot eventually sold for! We also managed to catch some lambs being sold before we left. 🐑

It was a great opportunity to see another side of the agricultural industry first hand and talk about everything from livestock breeds, buying and selling stock and what farmers look for when purchasing animals, to the different people and careers involved in keeping a livestock market running. Also, a big thank you to Sam for joining us to share his knowledge again.

And, of course, no trip to the mart would be complete without sampling the café before we left! ☕🧁

The young people were brilliant as always, asking lots of questions, getting involved and showing a real interest in everything going on around them. It’s been fantastic to see their confidence and knowledge grow over the past few weeks.

🐑 Next Wednesday is our SIXTH and final Livestock & Landscape session! 🦙

We’re planning a fun and relaxed morning back at Hazel Brow to round off what has been a brilliant summer. We’ll be getting hands on with some of the animals here at the farm, including the alpacas, as well as having an introduction to livestock showing and halter training before finishing with our very own fun mini show! 🏆

And if you haven’t joined us yet, please don’t feel like you’ve missed your chance! We’d still love to meet you and you’re more than welcome to come along for our final session.

🌿 Livestock & Landscape is completely FREE for young people aged 11–16, whether you’re from a farming background or have never set foot on a farm before.

📧 For more information or to join us next Wednesday, email [email protected] or visit the Hazel Brow Farm website.

We can’t quite believe we’re at our final week already. Let’s make it a good one! 🐑🦙🌾

Livestock & Landscape session 4Farming the Dales! 🚜🌾We had another brilliant Livestock & Landscape session on Wednesday,...
17/08/2026

Livestock & Landscape session 4
Farming the Dales! 🚜🌾

We had another brilliant Livestock & Landscape session on Wednesday, and it was especially lovely to see some new faces joining the group!

We enjoyed a beautiful walk along the riverside from Hazel Brow to Low House Farm Rare and Heritage Breeds, where neighbouring farmer Peter Booth kindly took a few minutes out of hay making to show us some of the work that goes into making hay, looking after the land and farming alongside nature with his family.

There were plenty of interesting discussions along the way about sustainable farming, environmental farming schemes, traditional hay meadows and how farming in the Yorkshire Dales has changed over the generations, as well as why farmers still play such an important role in caring for the landscape we all enjoy today 🌱🐝🐑

A huge thank you to Peter for giving up his time, sharing his knowledge and answering all of our questions!

And on such a hot day, it only seemed right to finish the morning with a bit of a paddle and chill by the river on our walk back to Hazel Brow! 💦☀️

Livestock & Landscape is FREE for young people aged 11–16, and you don’t need to come from a farming background or attend every session to get involved. New faces are always very welcome! We have 2 sessions left this summer.

📧 To find out more or join one of our remaining sessions, email [email protected].

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Low Row
Richmond
DL116

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm
Sunday 9am - 5pm

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