The Appleton poultry partnership

The Appleton Poultry Partnership When we moved to Town End Farm, one of the things on our bucket list was to have chickens. We quickly realised that this was going to be impossible on the land that came with the house; the idea of chickens wandering around the...

Village Life

When we escaped to the country and bought Town End Farm, we knew very little about Appleton le Moors other than how beautiful it looked, and that it had a pub, two churches and a village hall. Plus, an odd little green and white building called the Reading Room. We...

Our Story

The Long Barn is the result of what we like to call our midlife crisis (although at the time, a good friend of Ian’s told him that he was way too old for one of those!) In 2013, we made the decision to escape from the corporate world and set up our own business in the...

Two year anniversary

In October the Long Barn has been open to guests for two years, we have been amazingly lucky with almost all the weekends booked since we opened and in the busier months we have been full all week as well. The line from the film Field of Dreams “If you build it...
Doorstep Delivery

Doorstep Delivery

Many of our friends thought we were cutting ourselves off by moving to a village, how wrong they were not only do we get milk delivered… collect our own eggs….. you try and get this type of doorstep service where you live.

Chicks on the way

This is one of our fertilised eggs in the incubator You can clearly see some blood vessels developing in the egg, which is due to hatch on Sunday 17th of May…can’t wait. We have done OK, out of the 20 Buff Sussex eggs 13 appear to be developing and 7 out...