Back in June we had our first Resident Artist to Torrisdale. Kirstin Stride is an artist/craftswoman based in Brighton, she has been involved in setting up a co-operative shop selling local arts and crafts in Brighton, held craft fairs and is now focusing on producing her own work for sale through her website www.kirstinstride.com, etsy …
50 Trees Planted at Torrisdale
The Torrisdale 1Tree campaign has been a great success this year and we’re celebrating planting our 50th tree this month. The 1Tree planting scheme is a direct way for visitors to off-set the carbon footprint of their holiday, and encourages them to become part of the Torrisdale story. Guests are given a planting certificate with …
Goodbye to our French Wwoofers
We wave goodbye to our fourth set of wwoofers after a great couple of weeks with Marko and Younes. The boys did some hard work cutting and burning rhododendron, shifting firewood, painting, bamboo sculpting, and a lot of poker playing in the evenings at Glen House. Work continued on the walled garden, with Donald ripping …
Chicks first day out
The three new chicks at Glen House hatched this week. After Bunty went broody a few weeks back, we found some fertilised eggs for her to sit on, and now the surrogate mother-hen is doing a grand job of looking after her new chicks. Yesterday was their first day out into the big bad world…can’t …