LATEST NEWS
We're on the telly!
Tune into BBC iplayer until 12th February 2020 to watch 'Dot's Farm' - a documentary about summer 2019 on our farm. It features some of our money making schemes to save up for a wind turbine, from Goat yoga to Farm weddings! Watch on BBCi player here.
Farm experiences:
Be a farmer for the morning
Book to come for a morning farm experience - feed the hens, collect the eggs, check the goats and sheep and watch the sheepdogs having a training session. Once the jobs are done kick off your wellies and enjoy a breakfast of dippy eggs and soldiers in the farmhouse. Click here to book.
GOAT YOGA
Totally sold out! Madness!
Goat Yoga?! Yes, it is a bit bonkers - but it's also amazingly fun! All the profits are going towards helping our farm to transition to renewable technology and lower carbon farming models. Click here for ticket information or for more info on why we are running this sessions click here.
Welcome to Cronkshaw Fold
Located in the beautiful Alden Valley, Cronkshaw Fold is a traditional hill farm with a passion for environmentally friendly farming, animal welfare and teaching about the importance of sustainable agriculture. We run educational visits, host visitors for farm holidays and in 2019 we're trying our hand at hosting weddings, too!
We farm poultry, meat goats and sheep alongside our kitchen gardens, fish pond and broadleafed woodland. We use sustainable farming practices that promote a healthy environment, care for the countryside, increase local wildlife and preserve traditional rural skills such as dry stone walling, hedge laying, coppicing and companion planting.
All of our livestock are farmed in line with the RSPCA "5 freedoms" philosophy and have access to large outdoor spaces for grazing and foraging during fair weather including species rich mowing meadows. They also have indoor weatherproof accommodation for poor weather.
Climate change is something we are very concerned about. We have a great sense of urgency to do all we can to prevent our contribution towards emissions and help our visitors do the same. This includes working towards changing our current farming practices in order to grow produce with a lower carbon footprint. We are also working hard to raise money to invest in renewable power technologies so we can produce and store energy on site.
Where are we?
Cronkshaw Fold Farm & study centre
Helmshore
Rossendale
Lancashire
BB4 4AQ
