About Reddivallen Farm

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Reddivallen  – a working farm

Reddivallen was winning farm of the 2010 Otter Trophy Competition for encouraging wildlife conservation alongside a high standard of commercial farming.

The 420 acre farm produces Organic Beef and Lamb consisting of 30 traditional Hereford Suckler Cows and 600 Breeding Suffolk X ewes.

 

Wildlife and conservation

Reddivallen lies just south of Boscastle in an AONB (Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty) equidistant between two internationally designated wildlife sites – the North Cornwall Coast and the upper Camel Valley, so that its place in the landscape is as important as a stepping stone for wildlife.

The wildlife benefits from the organic mixed farming system, with streams creating the wet wooded valley bottom, and extensive areas of unimproved permanent pasture.
In 2006, we developed a spring-fed lake, where mirrored Carp have been introduced for anyone who is keen to fish. It provides habitat for a range of species. Guests are very welcome to stroll around the lake, and you may be treated to sightings of moorhens, herons, cormorants, boatmen, dragonflies, and so much more.

We tend to take many of the features of our countryside for granted, assuming they are naturally occurring. It is in fact a worked countryside and not a natural one. Most of its features were put there by farmers over many generations and now maintained by farmers.