Join us for a weekend celebrating all things wool! Learn to shear sheep with Farmer Tim or discover wool as art and make felt accessories with Lou Tonkin.
A Humble by Nature gift voucher is the perfect present. Contact info@humblebynature.com for more details. Visit Kate Humble's working farm in the beautiful Wye Valley, not far from the M4 & M5.
Humble by Nature’s home is a working farm just outside Monmouth in the Wye Valley in South Wales. For at least four generations it was owned by the local council and tenanted to young farming families who had no farm of their own. In 2010, when the last tenant retired and handed in his notice, the council decided to sell the farm, broken up into lots.
We felt it was too important an asset to the area, to farming and to the community to allow it to be sold in that way. We persuaded the council to allow us to take it on, keep it tenanted and run a business that in turn would support other rural businesses. The farm is now home to Tim and Sarah Stephens, who breed Welsh Mountain sheep and Hereford cattle.
Kate Humble & husband Ludo Graham moved to Monmouthshire in 2007. Ludo, a BAFTA winning TV producer, went to work for the BBC in Cardiff. Kate, a TV presenter and writer, was delighted to have the opportunity to move to the countryside after years of being a frustrated bumpkin in London. The initial plan was to rent a house, as Ludo’s contract was only for a year, but they fell in love with the Wye Valley and ended up buying an old stone farmhouse with four acres of land. Chickens came first, then Badger the dog.
Then they got slightly drunk at a neighbour’s dinner party and woke up to find they had agreed to take on two Kune Kune pigs. Two donkeys and several ducks and geese followed. Then a hive of bees, a veggie patch, Bella (another rescue dog) and a small flock of Badger Face Welsh Mountain ewes. More by mistake than design, they’d become smallholders.
We have a really wonderful team of expert teachers – all locally based – who have joined us at Humble by Nature to share their expertise and enthusiasm.
Bee-Keeping
Bees for Development's bio
Bread making & Humble by Nature cook
Tori's bio
Kingstone Brewery
Kingstone's bio
Print making & book binding
Sarah's bio
Floristry
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Kate's Farm
Kate's bio
Orchard planning & planting
Aisling's bio
Food foraging
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Kather's Kitchen
Katherine's bio
Hens & Poultry
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Hens & Poultry
James & Liz's bio
Smallholding
Liz's bio
Keeping hens for eggs
Liz's bio
Birds for the table
Wally's bio
Hedge-laying and livestock farming
Tim's bio
All things pig
Bob's bio
Wool and felting
Lou's bio
Charcuterie
Graham's bio
Tree fella
Phil's bio