Landscape
Lower Marsh Farm
Previously a daffodil farm (of Dan and Peter du Plessis renown), since being sold by the Duchy in the early ‘90’s Lower Marsh Farm has been through a few owners. We moved here just over a decade ago now, and live at the farm with our two children. We moved when our eldest was not even a toddler (he is now taller and stronger than me!) for a childhood more akin to mine growing up on a mountain farm in North Wales.
Nowadays the farm is no longer a traditional working farm but has been diversified into tourism offering holiday lets, residential retreats and shortly weddings. This means that the Victorian barns are maintained and actively used now as they are not suited to current day farming practices. Each Spring the daffodil history of the land shows itself in a wide variety of daffodils that pop up in the fields, hedges and woods – a survey in 2018 identified 47 different varieties of daffodil growing here with 38 being named (the remainder probably remnants of breeding trials which were not deemed worthy of naming). The Salt Marsh, nowadays a delegated SSSI Nature Reserve, is grazed by a few Highland Cattle (whose weight, and grazing habits) reasonably closely mimic that of creatures which historically roamed the British landscape (i.e. Elephants, Bison etc).
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