The Herdwick Experience is set to appear in ITV’s flagship Sunday morning show, Love Your Weekend, presented by Britain’s favourite horticulturist, presenter, and author Alan Titchmarsh. The primetime morning show will pay a visit to Yew Tree Farm,...
In March 2021, British Life Photographer of the Year, Amy Bateman, embarked on a year-long journey to record the stories of 40 farms across Cumbria. One of the farms she photographed was our farm, Yew Tree Farm, Coniston. The resulting book called Forty Farms depicts...
The overriding query we have is – When’s the best time to see lambs or bottle feed one? There is a short answer and a long answer. I will give both 🙂 Short Answer: Between late May and mid June. We don’t often have any lambs to bottle feed. Long Answer: We begin...
A Lake District farm is set to appear in BBC’s flagship countryside show Countryfile on Sunday 15th August at 6.30pm. Yew Tree Farm, Coniston, run by Jon & Jo Watson is set to take centre stage, as presenters Charlotte Smith and Steve Brown take a look round the...
Coniston Beatrix Potter farm welcomes ‘rare’ triplet lambs We are pleased to be featured in this BBC news article for BBC Cumbria. A Lake District farm has welcomed the birth of a “rare” set of triplet lambs for only the third time in 18 years....