Happening at Trealy Farm

Trealy Farm is a 138 acre organic mixed farm on a hillside looking out towards the Black Mountains and Brecon Beacons. It’s a beautiful, wild and secluded space. Amongst the fields of sheep and the small herd of horses, are woodlands and wilderness and magical places: Trealy wood, Women’s Oak, the coppice, meadow, secret garden, and ancient yew, hillside walks and a stone circle. 

The weekend is a fund-raiser for Pete Lawrence’s first album in two decades, a collection of new songs designed to be sung together in community. These are songs for our times — not just to listen to, but to sing. In an age marked by division and disconnection, collective singing is more vital than ever. It reminds us of what it means to be human: to raise our voices in harmony, to listen deeply, to come together around a shared vision.

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ADDITIONAL FARM INFO

FOOD

Please see below for info on kitchen in Pavilion.

 CATERING – if you have paid for catering:

 BREAKFAST is always self cook and self serve in Pavilion

see above

Dishwasher tablets are under the sink. 

LUNCH & DINNER are served in the Farmhouse. 

SHOES

We don't require shoes off anywhere except upstairs in the house but please ask guests to check their shoes are clean if they leave them on.

COASTERS & WATER MARKS

We have some lovey old wood furniture and water glasses coffee cups etc can stain badly – encourage guests to use coasters. 

RECYCLING

Food waste in small grey buckets or big blue buckets in the yard opposite farmhouse

Cardboard & paper in RED sacks.

Hard plastic only & tin in PURPLE sacks.

All recycling must be CLEAN of food waste. 

Glass in GREEN box. 

Everything else in black bin liner including soft plastic.

All recycling to the RECYCLING AREA – lean-to on side of traditional barn.

Guests are responsible for taking good care of all rubbish and making sure it's correctly done. 

ACCOMMODATION 

Pods, loghouses and barn have their fully equipped own kitchens. 

Caravans and Sheppy have basic tea / coffee making. 

Guests in these spaces are welcome to take breakfast items away from Pavilion and prepare in their own spaces.

However, please ask that all mugs bowls etc are returned to their original home. 

SHOWER

Caravan and Sheppy and campervan dwellers can use shower in stable block (behind traditional barn) or house or Pavilion AND toilets in house or Pavilion. 

ON DEPARTURE

Check nothing is left behind.

If we do find items after departure we can post but charge £10 plus the postage or we leave in Lost Property box to be collected. 

PAVILION

DOORS IN PAVILION

You must keep the big door on left locked with they when it's closed and bolt the big door on right either at top or bottom.

When open, both doors must be hooked back.

If these doors swing they are heavy and dangerous and at risk of breaking. 

KITCHEN

Two fridges

HOB

Hob is induction – this means it will need the correct pans and it won't like wet pans or mess on the surface. If this happens – wipe it clean and dry. 

To work the hob:

• Make sure it's on at wall switch
• Switch on at hob surface
• Select ring and use + or – to regulate heat.

Induction won't work until the pan is on the surface. 

HEATING

Pavilion is usually warm due to its design and the boiler chimney which passes through on the east side. 

If you need the heating on, use the thermostats on each radiator. 

SAUNA (Wood fired)

Make a fire in the log burner using paper & kindling. When it's alight -  stuff as many logs in as you can. Keep it going for about 1 hour to get very hot sauna – usually about 2 / 3 refills of the burner. 

BOILER

Underneath Pavilion hence the whirring sounds. 

TRIP SWITCHES

If the Pavilion electricity trips – the fuse box is the Boiler Room under the Pavilion / next to kitchen area and accessed via outside door. 

INFRA RED SAUNA

The infra red sauna is in the garden near the pool. 

Simple to use – touch screen is usually like this but may be further on in the Steps:

SCREEN – icons with Sunlighten icon (Like yellow lotus flower) in top left. SELECT this icon.

It will ask you to choose USER – select Ruth Tudor. NOT guest!

SCREEN shows PROGRAMS or QUICK MODE in top right – I recommend Quick Mode. 

You will then see two dials – temp & time – put both on MAX. 

Wait about 50 minutes. It never gets hotter than about 60 degrees but this is perfect for an infra red sauna – it's a penetrative heat. 

Benefits of infra red – immunity, arthritis, skin conditions. Plenty of info on the internet if you want to read.

 The shower next to sauna is COLD WATER only. 

Map

(Farmhouse and Pavilion marked in blue)

LAND

Trealy is 138 acres and the house is roughly in the middle of its land.

Please use maps left out in Pavilion including the O/S maps 'Trealy Farm'.

Orientation is straightforward – west is out towards the valley and the mountains.

If you stand in the yard with the house on your right and the traditional barn on your left you are facing SOUTH and north is behind you.

East is up the hill.

Roughly the rule is this: if you come to a gate and there's grass on the other side it's ours.

The exception to this is Square Farm – the gate out of Roman Road (field on right as you walk down drive, gate is on the big bend – has public bridleway sign there) leads into their field on the north side. You can see Square Farm farm below you. It's a muddy walk in wet weather but you can get to the Square Farm Shop via this gate.

A few walking suggestions to get you going:

Coppiced Wood

Head south from yard leaving Pavilion on your right. Down rough track. Ignore gates to your left. At end of track you'll come to two gates – go through left gate.

This brings you into Blue's Field. See Green Shed on west side and Blue's grave nearby. Cross this field heading south. At far end there are two gates separated by a hedge. Go through Right gate.

Keep heading south through field 'Maes Yr Uchaf Strip' until you see Maes Yr Uchaf wood ahead of you. Enter the wood by wooden gate. This is a SSSI ancient coppiced wood – a great place to see wildlife including hares; owls at dusk; wildflowers.

Old Yew

Head north from the yard through the paddock / caravan area. The Arena will be on your right. At far end of paddocks go through gate into Hay Barn field. Turn right (east) and go slightly uphill to far end. You'll see a big wood to the north. Go through gate on east side of field into Women's Oak. Turn immediately left and follow the hedge to wooden gate into Trealy Wood. This is a large ancient wood. The tracks through it would have been used by Romans moving between Monmouth and Trellech. It's also a 'Coffin Path' (carrying heavy oak coffins to church from homesteads). Charcoal makers camped in the wood to tend to their charcoal. A few metres along the rack inn the wood you'll see a gap on your right into the two yew trees. The oldest one is male and close to 2000 years old.

Stone Circle

Walk straight up to Women's Oak field – due east of yard leaving house & barn behind you. You'll pas veg patch on your left and farm building on your right. Pass through gate at top between oak and ash trees. The next part is steep and can be muddy. Head up this towards an oak tree to your north east. Here the land flattens out to the north. Follow the flat patch until you reach the Stone Circle (not neolithic but put up by Cai Tudor on a spot that we sense is sacred). The grave nearby is our collie Sid.

Battlefield

As above but from Woman's Oak oak tree head south east towards the gate along a rough track. On the other side of this gate is Battlefield – where Owain Glyndwr the Welsh revel had his last victory against the English in 1404. It's named 'Craig Y Dorth battle' from the name of this hillside. Craig Y Dorth means Rock of Loaf. At the top of Battlefield is a small tarmac public road which forms a circle around the top of the hillside. This forms our boundary on the east side. If you head south along the top of battlefield you'll come into 'Y Ffridd' – a glorious field with different ecosystems and wildlife. Drop down into Maes Yr Uchaf Strip (see above Coppiced Wood walk).