Two comfortable cottages on a working family organic farm, where animals and nature abound. Collect eggs for supper, melt marshmellows over the campfire or simply lay back and gaze as the stars twinkle above. Recharge your batteries for free - your car battery, using our micro-hydro produced electricity. Enjoy long walks or short strolls from your doorstep, taking in the best our National Park has to offer.
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There are three generations of Matthews' happily living at Aberhyddnant. Paul and Liz who live in the main farm house, their daughters Bethan and Nicola and now their grandson Lloyd. Paul moved to Aberhyddnant from Atherstone with his mum and dad in 1983 and together worked to rebuild a long neglected farm into a productive area of land able to support the family and conserve the beautiful local countryside.
Heating - biomass batch wood boiler which is lit every couple of days. This is great because we have lots of timber on the farm and will be coppicing native woodland for future supplies. The boiler simply replaced our existing oil boiler so all the radiators etc were already in place! If we get a bit chilly we light the fire in the sitting room for cosy winter evenings (sometimes it gets too hot!).
Since moving to the Aberhyddnant in 1983 the Matthews family has worked towards running a viable farm whilst trying to conserve and promote biodiversity. Today Aberhyddnant is a family run, 220 acre organic hill farm in Crai producing quality lamb, pork, beef and free-range eggs whilst helping to enhance the environment.
As you may have noticed the Matthews are very aware of the countryside around us and our role in preserving it for the future. Since moving to Aberhyddnant we have created six stream or spring fed pools, three of which were stocked in 1987 with native Brown Trout that are now naturally regenerating.
Step One - Masses of insulation, low energy light bulbs, wood burners, more energy efficient alliances. No we are not mad, there are some advantages to living in Wales, and I'm not talking about all that lovely lamb and lush green hillsides. I talking about the reason for them; soft rain forming mountain streams.
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Jen Heard
May 16, 2021
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David Pemberton
Oct 03, 2019
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To be honest I'd rather not leave a rating at all but I feel this issue needs to be addressed. This accommodation was recommended to me by a friend. A Google search showed a great looking location and coupled with some good reviews I was sold. Sadly, I was never able to enquire about a booking as nobody ever seems to answer the phone! I just don't understand why people decide to advertise themselves on the internet put a phone number up for all the world to see only to never bother taking any calls.
James Morgan
Sep 08, 2019
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