Welcome to
Our Cornish Farm
Remembering sacredness,
beauty and rootedness.
What happens if we rediscover the sacred, the beautiful and the rooted? For our landscapes, organisations, or society at large?
For millennia, people lived, worked and celebrated within those ideas. They provided structure, meaning, and a larger story to be part of.
Our Cornish Farm is the ideal place to remember these ideas. Nestled in the Fowey estuary, on the windswept toe of England, Our Cornish Farm inhabits a deeply rural landscape cloaked in 1,500 years of monastic tradition and communal enterprise.
Our Vision is to be a centre of thought and practice for those ancient wisdoms. Grounded in the Christian principles of stewardship, community and personal transformation.
Areas of Focus
land
stewardship
to enrich nature, enterprise
and buildings.
cultural
heritage
to restore rhythms of
community and rootedness.
personal
formation
to navigate a life of high responsibility and calling.
Hello, we are John and Beth Featherby.
For two decades we have watched our friends and colleagues become increasingly drawn to a more sacred way of seeing the world. Alongside which we had become increasingly involved in a variety of faith centred land stewardship initiatives.
Keen to nurture that trend and make a more full time commitment to the land and faith question, we have moved our family of six across the country, from Hertfordshire (just north of London) to Cornwall, to embark on a new adventure.
We don’t know where this pilgrimage of sorts will take us. We do know it is adventure awash with many exciting and scary unknowns: we have much to learn.
And that it starts with ourselves and this patch of England we now call home. We hope you’ll join us!
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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 Interview
Better Beings
Spiritual Capital with John Featherby
John is interviewed by Micael Johnstone and Joel Bravette on the meaning crisis and the concept of Spiritual Capital.
Latest Article
Research presentation on the premise that Western secular business is now caught in a pincer movement between collapsing secularism at home and rising pressure from abroad. Written to present the accompanying business and investment landscape.
See more of John’s Substack: “A Sacred Enterprise”