We are a working small-holding with 20 acres of parkland, woodland, orchard and gardens.  You can stay in the barn or between April and October, in tipis, yurts or bell tents.  Everyone has access to the pavilion (with its kitchen, verandah and bathrooms) and the giant tipi with its fire, dining and seating areas.   Its a beautiful place to hold weddings and parties.  We also equip the barn and giant tipi for meetings, training or team away-days.  And we can organise a wide range of activities on and off-site, including sausage-making, wine tasting, canoe trips, bicycling, fishing, camel trekking, massages, beauty therapy, walks in the Cotswolds, archery, to name but a view.  Delicious food is central to what we offer, we produce as much as possible here, the rest is as local as possible.

While you are here, you are welcome to wander around the small-holding and help feed the pigs and poultry.

Heavenly Hogs

We love pigs. They are clever, funny, all different, affectionate, and most importantly have infinite uses in the kitchen. We keep rare-breeds as they are suited to being reared outdoors. They are hardy, good mothers, and although slower growing, the end product bears no resemblance to the flabby insipid pork that has made its home on our supermarket shelves; it's delicious.

At the moment we have Berkshires and Gloucester Old Spots. They were born in a prison farm in Redditch, and maybe because of their rootes, are a lot easier to look after than their tamworth and iron-age predecessors, who were masterful escape artists. They spend their whole life outside, in the woods and fields foraging and rooting for extra tasty morsels. From this top quality pork we make our own sausages, bacon, air-dried ham, which can all be sampled during your stay. We cook a lot of shoulders for groups of 10 or more. We slowly roast them for at least 12 hours until they flake off the bone.

For our weddings and parties, we use our pigs and sheep for spit roasts.

Contact us on 0796 227 3417 or email us at olivia@taltonlodge.co.uk