Welcome to
Our Cornish Farm

Growing the sacred
and the beautiful

Our vision is to help modernity rediscover the power and practicality of sacredness and beauty.

Through
flourishing landscapes

Exploring the application of faith and sacred stories to the stewardship of land and place.

And
flourishing lives

Enabling communal celebration, cultural heritage and personal formation.

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 community and land stewardship.

We hope you’ll walk with us.

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For an insight into our adventure

Personal formation for people at a hilltop
Reformer pilates for all levels of fitness
Community activites and events
Board advisory for thinker-doer leaders (with Shoremount)

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 traditional and spiritual thinking.

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

  • 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.

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Latest Substack articles…

  • 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…

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  • Job 12 : 7-10

    “But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you.

    Which of all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this In his hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind.”

  • Wendell Berry

    “It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.”

  • Roger Scruton

    "Through the pursuit of beauty we shape the world as a home, and in doing so we both amplify our joys and find consolation for our sorrows".

  • William Kennedy

    “Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego.”