Below is a summary of information given by Grizedale Arts (GA) director Adam Sutherland at an open meeting held at The Farmer’s Arms on Sept. 30th. The purpose of the meeting was to explain GA’s immediate plans for the building and invite voluntary / community / external business take up of…

We want to commission a majestic yet durable poultry enclosure to house laying hens at our community pub, The Farmer’s Arms (LA12 8DT). The enclosure will be sited in view of the pub, and so we are looking for something that offers the best possible conditions for our flock…

Last summer as Guest Chef Choon Yuan Wang joined our kitchen, her traditional Malaysian dishes sat on the menu as a curveball from our Stable Bar staples like Ham, Egg and Chips. Inviting chefs to embrace what is seasonal and local to us here in the Crake Valley and engage…

Grizedale Arts’ Karen Guthrie (Artist/Gardener) fills us in on our pub car park’s innovative & experimental journey from drab to delightful. On the 6th June two mysterious piles of gravel appeared in our car park. These are part of our plans to green up the space and make it more…

Guest Chef Motoko Fujita joined us in July bringing some very special Japanese cuisine to our menu. Inviting Chefs to embrace what is seasonal and local to us here in the Crake Valley and engage with local producers and growers to bring new culinary experiences to our local audiences.  The…

Such ancient walls as these Hold a secret close to their breast: Not keeping something out; Not keeping something in But to be still as stone And to listen.   If these walls could talk They would sing, Ring out, Resound with the song of the Ancestors: With laughter and…

The Pub Quiz… A unique opportunity to competitively showcase your grasp of objective facts whilst having a pint. The choice of questions in a pub quiz can be telling though – of the anticipated demographic of the pub, of the frame of reference of the question setter. What if you…

Artist and pub enthusiast Timothea Armour joined us at The Farmer’s Arms as an Artist-in-Residence on our ‘Give Some: Get Some’ residency programme. Delving into local archives and the community’s memories Timothea spent her time with us unpicking some of the multi-layered history of what some say is the oldest…

As we enter 2021 with a new mist of uncertainty in the air, we find ourselves back in lockdown for what seems to be the foreseeable future with most people’s plans and programmes hanging on the timely distribution of the vaccination. For The Farmer’s Arms, as the purchase progresses with…

This week, The Farmer’s Arms project passed its first major milestone. Following an overwhelming response to our national fundraising campaign, enough funds were raised to secure the building and cover the purchase price, associated legal fees and commercial property VAT and stamp duty. A massive achievement, it marks neither…

Picking up where she left off last week, local luminary Wendy Keegan takes us on another walk down The Farmer’s Arms memory lane:  As the 1950s finally gave up the ghost, and the ‘60s came roaring in, there seemed a general acceptance that this was much more than a fresh decade – there was…

They’ve shut the pub! Looking out of the window, the village is in darkness. No brightly-lit signs to welcome thirsty travellers; no car park lights shining through the glass stoppers of the decanters on our windowsill, throwing rainbows round the living room walls. No comings and goings. – Just black,…

As we work on the project we of course find ourselves down fascinating rabbit holes in research. One of the things we recently found via the Church of Charles No Dig Dowding is Richard Perkins’ Regenerative Agriculture course – he’s an inspiring smallholder based in Sweden.