Welcome to
Our Cornish Farm
Growing the sacred
and the beautiful
We are John and Beth Featherby.
For two decades we have witnessed a growing desire for the sacred and the beautiful.
Keen to nurture it, we have taken our family of six on a new adventure and moved from Hertfordshire (just north of London), to Cornwall.
We don’t know where this pilgrimage of sorts will take us.
We do know it starts with ourselves and this patch of England we now call home.
And that we have a heart for how faith, myth and place contributes to community and land stewardship.
We hope you’ll walk with us.
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L to R: John, Wilbur, Felicity, Beth, Freddie and Charles
Woven through our nation’s many challenges is a crisis of meaning and stewardship. At its root lies modernity’s suspicion or rejection of all things traditional and spiritual.
That sentiment has deprived society of a cosmic story to live within, fracturing our relationship with our selves, one another, a sense of place and the natural world.
Our Ambition is to inhabit sacred stories, anchored by our faith, via how we live, work, steward the land and participate in community.
This adventure is not without many exciting and scary unknowns: we have much to learn. We welcome your prayers and support!
Big Themes
that stir us
Enterprise
Place
Myth
Mysticism
Beauty
Land
Faith
Family
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The Place We Call Home
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The Place: East Trencreek
Our Cornish Farm is nestled in the ancient parish of St Veep on the coastal side of Lostwithiel and Fowey.
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The Name
The farm takes its name from the iron age earthworks that stretch from Lerryn to Looe: the “Giant’s Hedge”.
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The Farming
The land is primarily used for the raising and rearing of the historic British breed of South Devons.
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The Monastic
It is a place deep in monastic and mystical heritage. A thousand years of communal worship echoes through the landscape.
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The Orchards
The house and farmyard are surrounded by three orchards of varying sizes. Cider is a cultural imperative here!
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Trebant Water
One side is bound by Trebant Water, an historic and charming stream that runs down to the creek edge of Fowey Estuary.
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+ Polgreen Farm
The project is managed in partnership with John’s family’s other farm, Polgreen, which neighbours East Trencreek.
Latest Substack articles…
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The Return of Spirituality & Religion: Reshaping business and investment
One hypothesis of our project is that Western organisations are caught in a pincer like movement.
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'Spiritual Capital' - Is it a concept about to start coming of age?
One capital that is ever present but rarely formally discussed is that of ‘Spiritual Capital’.
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Faith, Sport & The Spiritual Root of Hogwarts
It’s the early 1800s, there is no state education and English boarding schools are feral.
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God is back and the implication for business is significant
It is the mid ‘90s and small groups of individuals are meeting in pubs and homes to discuss something…
