Herd Thyme

Herd Thyme Therapeutic Care Farm offering Ba****ck horse-riding sessions, bushcraft, archery, farm animals, foraging, veggie growing and more!!

We work one to one, and with small groups, facilitating Equine Learning, Ba****ck riding, Natural Horsemanship and Therapeutic time with all the farm animals.

30/03/2026

Oh my goodness, after a very long wait, and 3 sleepless weeks for me, Sally has finally had a gorgeous girl-calf, introducing Dilly-Dally ๐Ÿ‚๐Ÿ‚๐Ÿ‚โค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธ
She is a huge calf and thank goodness we were here with Joe Martin to help pull her into the world โค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธ all the love, Happy Easter everyone ###

Some days particularly shine ๐ŸŒŸ and yesterday's deluge ๐ŸŒง was one of them. 6 staff and 6 students pulled together to get h...
28/01/2026

Some days particularly shine ๐ŸŒŸ and yesterday's deluge ๐ŸŒง was one of them. 6 staff and 6 students pulled together to get horses out of flooded fields and build temporary shelters for them in the barns. Children with sensory challenges wearing waterproofs and wellies for the first time, just so they could join in the fun and work and general soaking.
Roaring fire inside to dry us all off and laugh about it all.
๐ŸŽ๐Ÿด๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿ‚๐Ÿ•โ€๐Ÿฆบ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿ“๐Ÿฆ†
๐Ÿ’ง๐Ÿ’ง๐ŸŒง๐ŸŒง๐ŸŒง๐Ÿ’ง๐Ÿ’ง๐Ÿ’ง

Exciting news to share from Herd Thyme.We will soon be opening up our setting on Saturdays as a Community hub. For folks...
04/01/2026

Exciting news to share from Herd Thyme.
We will soon be opening up our setting on Saturdays as a Community hub.

For folks to :

โ€ข Get involved/combat isolation and loneliness
โ€ข Skill share
โ€ข Exercise
โ€ข Build connections
โ€ข Be part of raising high welfare meat and vegetables
โ€ข Cost price produce (when we have it) for members.
โ€ข Cook together
โ€ข Social time and fun!
โ€ข Workshops
โ€ข Gym/Yoga space

This is in the early stages of development and we are really open to input,ideas, practial/admin help.

Our aim is to provide a wholesome Community space where we can all benefit and grow from.

We have such a wonderful space and wish to share it with the local community but I have limited capacity, so would welcome some good souls with time on their hands who would like to get stuck in!

We have a huge pollytunnel in construction, heaps of well composted organic manure, lots of space! And of course, the heart and soul being all the animals.

Please do get in touch if you would like to be a part of this.

Best wishes,

Kara

Massive shout-out to Robert Vines and our local farming community who rallied round to help us get our new gym/yoga spac...
08/12/2025

Massive shout-out to Robert Vines and our local farming community who rallied round to help us get our new gym/yoga space in situ. It literally would've had to go back to Liverpool without their help!! ๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿฆพ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐ŸŒพ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐ŸŒพ๐Ÿ‹๐Ÿ‹โ€โ™€๏ธ๐Ÿง˜๐Ÿง˜โ€โ™€๏ธโค๐Ÿงก๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ’œ๐ŸคŽ
If anyone has any sad and lonely gym equipment they'd like to re-home please do get in touch ๐Ÿ™

Big thankyou to Joe Martin and Jevon Whiting for making our trees safe for us all on a very rainy day!! The horses are l...
01/12/2025

Big thankyou to Joe Martin and Jevon Whiting for making our trees safe for us all on a very rainy day!! The horses are loving all the ash twigs ๐Ÿ‚๐ŸŒณ๐ŸŒฟ๐ŸŒง๐Ÿ’ง

Super training day with FEC It - faecal egg count training We can now check all our animals ourselves for parasites ๐Ÿ‰, s...
29/11/2025

Super training day with FEC It - faecal egg count training
We can now check all our animals ourselves for parasites ๐Ÿ‰, saving us a small fortune!! And, more importantly, enabling us to ensure our soil and grazing is as healthy as can be, ensuring our livestock rotation plans are working.
Feeling empowered ๐Ÿ’ช.
For years we have just had horses grazing the fields, the varied livestock is key for soil health and building immune systems against parasites.
I'm so happy and grateful to be able to do the very best for our little piece in Crofton ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ‚๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ“๐Ÿฆ†๐Ÿฆš๐ŸŒป๐ŸŒณ๐Ÿ€๐ŸŒพ๐Ÿ‚๐Ÿž๐Ÿชฒ๐Ÿ•ธ๐Ÿ›๐Ÿฆ‹๐ŸŒ

Autumn days ๐ŸŒฐ๐Ÿ„๐Ÿ”ฅ๐ŸŽƒ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ‚๐ŸŒพ
08/11/2025

Autumn days ๐ŸŒฐ๐Ÿ„๐Ÿ”ฅ๐ŸŽƒ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ‚๐ŸŒพ

So happy and blessed to have these gorgeous 2 girls at Herd Thyme. They are the best mummy's, and their strong SISTERHOO...
04/10/2025

So happy and blessed to have these gorgeous 2 girls at Herd Thyme. They are the best mummy's, and their strong SISTERHOOD is an inspiration โค๏ธ๐Ÿ‚๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿฎ
We have been training them to let us hand milk them, with the help of lots of ๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ.
Following the traditional systems of calf-sharing. So we will never seperate them from their babies. But milking them once a day encourages them to produce a little more milk for us to share. Looking forward to trying our first butters and cheeses!!

21/09/2025

What a treat for a Sunday afternoon!!๐Ÿ‚๐Ÿƒ
A beautiful healthy girl โค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธ

JOB OPPORTUNITY pls share ๐Ÿ™ We are looking for an experienced Facilitator with counselling/mentoring experience to join ...
18/09/2025

JOB OPPORTUNITY pls share ๐Ÿ™

We are looking for an experienced Facilitator with counselling/mentoring experience to join our small dynamic team working with children and young people with SEN and SEMH.
We are set in the beautiful countryside near Marlborough in a well established Alternative Provision registered with Wiltshire County Council.

The role involves facilitating therapeutic sessions in a farm setting with animals, woodland and countryside all around.
We have horses, goats, cows, llamas, chickens/ducks. All of which are interactive with our clients. Sessions involve caring for the animals, horse riding, mindfulness, gardening, cookery, bushcrafts, archery, foraging, and taking advantage of the many therapeutic opportunities that arise throughout the day. We also facilitate Level 2 in Animal Care and functional skills Maths and English.

Your skills can include any of the above and/or different skills that would be compatible with our setting.
You would be working primarily 1:1 with students with a whole range of different needs.
You need to be highly motivated and understand the commitment and importance of the work we do and maintain our high standards of Safeguarding.

Working with students and helping them to develop new skills, learning through connection, building confidence and engagement.

Experience of working with children and young people is essential.

All the animals on the farm assist in creating this incredible, therapeutic space open to all. Please see our website www.herdthyme.com for more details of how we work.

This is a self-employed role and requires an enhanced DBS check, safeguarding level 2 and first aid certificate.

A fantastic opportunity for the right person, to join a thriving team making genuine changes in people's lives.

Job role is for 2 to 4 days per week. 7hr day, 9am - 4pm. Term time only.

Please Email your CV to [email protected]

Set in the beautiful rolling hills of Wiltshire, just outside Marlborough, Herd Thyme is a Registered Alternative Provider with Wiltshire County Council offering a variety of activities such as Equine Assisted Learning with qualified practitioners, therapeutic ba****ck riding, bushcrafts, nature bas...

A quick catch up on our progress at the farm this summer. 5 beautiful new sheep (Wiltshire Horn), 2 gorgeous Dexter cows...
14/09/2025

A quick catch up on our progress at the farm this summer. 5 beautiful new sheep (Wiltshire Horn), 2 gorgeous Dexter cows who are both pregnant and due any day now๐Ÿ‚๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿฎ!!!
Amazing potato and apple harvest ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿฅ”
And barn building in progress, to store our straw and hay ๐Ÿ›–
Busy happy days ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿด๐Ÿ•๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ“๐Ÿฆ†๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿ‚๐Ÿฆ™๐Ÿฆ™

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Herd Thyme, Crofton
Marlborough
SN83DW

Opening Hours

Monday 8:30am - 5pm
Tuesday 8:30am - 5pm
Wednesday 8:30am - 5pm
Thursday 8:30am - 5pm
Friday 8:30am - 5pm

Telephone

+447920583327

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