Our Little Project Archives

Ian’s bread making journey (or how bread saved our lives)

by Ian Berry | Mar 2, 2021 | Foodie, Our Little Project

In every Long Barn welcome hamper is a homemade loaf of bread that Ian has made for guests. It really is delicious, especially since we now use a local flour made by Yorkshire Organic Millers, less than 2 miles away. But there is a story behind this bread which...

The Rollercoaster Continues

by Ian Berry | Nov 1, 2020 | Our Little Project

As we all head into another lockdown, looking ahead to the next few months is challenging to say the least. The Long Barn has effectively been closed since the introduction of the rule of 6 and is now formally closed until the national lock down is eased. The positive...

Eta, our biomass boiler

by Ian Berry | Oct 18, 2020 | Our Little Project

One of our favourite parts of Autumn is a bracing walk and then returning home to a toasty house to warm up, lighting a fire, and hunkering down. And with everything that’s happening in the world at the moment, we suspect that similar nesting instincts will be keeping...

The Long Barn Kitchen

by Ian Berry | Aug 16, 2020 | Our Little Project

When we renovated the Long Barn, one of the many things we wanted to get right was the kitchen. We appreciated that many guests may not want to do a lot of cooking when away, but we also wanted to make sure that if they did, it would have everything they needed...

The Appleton poultry partnership

by Ian Berry | Jul 12, 2020 | Nature, Our Little Project

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...

The best kept secret

by Ian Berry | Jun 28, 2020 | Our Little Project

The best kept secret We think the West Barn is one of the best kept secrets of the Long Barn. We are convinced that this grade 2 listed barn was one of the main reasons that Town End Farm was on the market for such a long time. As you can see from the photos, it was...