Achray Farm, welcome to our home. Grow.
About
Achray Farm is a smallholding in Brig o’Turk in the heart of the Trossachs. Our sustainable permaculture and low-input methods produce supplies with provenance and love. We currently have a small polytunnel and market garden, a large selection of hens, duck eggs incubating and two very friendly Oxford Sandy & Black pigs.
The farm sits on the Great Trossachs Path and visitors are welcome anytime as we have a literal ‘open gate’ policy. Dogs on leads please and sustainable transport preferred (please walk from the Byre Inn or access from the Three Lochs Forest Drive).
Blog
Energy Sources
One of our aims for Achray Farm was to create a regenerative environment. This tenet is not only in what we produce (see Blog from April 2018), but also in how we operate on our triple-bottom line of Financial, Social and Environmental impact. One of the biggest environmental aspects outwith our direct control is the …
Heavy Plant and Little Plants
This winter we have been working through our online Making Small Farms Work course run by Richard Perkins at Ridgedale in Sweeden. One of the critical tasks that came out of our early design work was to assess the farm according to Scales of Permanence. PA Yeomans‘ work both helps us to understand what can …
Fencin’ & Hedgin’
Achray Farm is pretty small as smallholdings go, so we want to maximise our use of the land as well as the location and buildings. This means creating a planting plan that will return high-quality, low-input produce that is suitable for our soil and climate. More on that detail in a future post. Firstly though, …
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