Welcome to Borough Farm

David Kennard and his family farm at Borough Farm on the beautiful, rugged North Devon coast. The farm is home to a flock of  700 breeding ewes, plus their lambs which graze across over 400 acres . Working with David is his team of 9 sheepdogs, ranging from retiree Gale, now 11 years old, down Dart who’s just a year old,  and of course including Mist, the star of Channel Five’s “Mist - Sheepdog tales”

Borough Farm Sheepdog and Falconry displays.

This year will be our twelfth year of Sheepdog and Falconry displays at Borough Farm. I’m hoping that Fly will be joining the team for the displays this year, she’s just over 2 and becoming a very good sheepdog. Also new for this year will be some under cover seating for those occasional wet evenings.

Every Wednesday 6pm

The first display will be on June 23rd, then every wednesday until September 8th

You can learn more about our displays here,

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• Alfie’s new best friend
  added by David, 19/08/10 at 12:46 pm

  If you have followed ‘Mist Sheepdog tales’ on Channel Five, you might well have spotted that Fern is far and away the grumpiest sheepdog on Borough Farm. She does what she pleases when she pleases and now that she’s almost eleven years old, she has decided that she wants to retire to the kitchen. However, [...]

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• fly’s first outing
  added by David, 19/08/10 at 12:26 pm

  Last week it was time to wean the lambs away from the ewes on Morte Point, and with Fern nearly eleven years old, it was time to give Fly her first taste of gathering the sheep on the coastal ground.
  I’m always a little worried when working a young dog amongst gorse and bracken and near [...]

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• fly’s surprise
  added by David, 25/07/10 at 10:23 pm

  We have lots of arrivals on Borough farm, mainly expected, some unexpected, like the lamb that was born on Morte Point this week (in the middle of July!) but when  I opened the kennels one morning a few weeks ago I had a surprise to beat most…..
  Fly failed to materialise so I poked my [...]

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• weaning the lambs
  added by David, 20/08/10 at 3:03 pm

  The dry spell of weather that lasted through much of April, May and June has well and truly passed and with some welcome rain so the grass has started to grow again. But even with a new flush of grass, the lambs and ewes soon find themselves in competition for the same grazing, and by [...]

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• sheepdog displays
  added by David, 15/07/10 at 10:32 pm

  It’s the middle of July and we are already well into our season of Sheepdog and Falconry displays at Borough farm. Although the weather has been much better than it has the last few summers  (in fact I’ve been hoping for a little rain to make the grass grow) for the last couple of weeks, [...]

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• a dry time
  added by David, 30/06/10 at 12:31 pm

  There is a saying the ‘the weather always pays its debts’ and so it seems this year. The past three summers have been disastrously wet causing as many problems for farmers as it has for the local tourist industry, but this year it seems to be all change. We haven’t had much rain for over [...]

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