Guardswell Farm

12/09/2025

Cider sundowners on the Farm. With the sun setting earlier in November, it’s the perfect time to join our team for a glass of or mulled cider during your stay! For all of our November bookings, we’ll be popping up in one of our wee spaces- maybe the Glasshouse, maybe the Cosy Room… and we’d love for you to join in for a drink on us. Pop your thickest jumper on, cosiest socks and we’ll get a fire roaring. It’s also awesome for us to get to chat to you a little more during your stay- or if you prefer a quiet sip, we’ll make sure to leave you cider drinking in peace.

11/09/2025

11/09/2025

It isn’t just the long soak, the sip of cider from your tin mug, the smell of the woodland behind you, the slight quiet flicker of the flame in the lantern. It’s the time and effort that it takes to get there- the decisive lighting of the tiniest bundle of tinder, the slowly adding kindling, the tending over a matter of hours, the stirring (really focusing on perfecting that figure of eight). All of the work before makes the moment you dip your toe in the water ten times sweeter. Our lives are so fast at the moment, doom scrolling and instant gratification- there’s a lot to be said for focusing in on a slow and steady task like keeping a fire lit for long enough to heat a pretty whopping full tub of water.

09/09/2025

See you tomorrow?

It’s our last market of the year- 3pm until 7pm- with wonderful producers, delicious food and beautiful views.

Join us in supporting the awesome producers and farmers that attend, and have a bit of a summer send off!

08/09/2025

A lovely way to support our fantastic local primary school 🫐🫐🫐

Pick your own blueberries. This Tuesday at Thomas Thomson in Blairgowrie.

Come and support Abernyte School Parent Council.

Pick as much blueberries as you want for a donation. All money raised goes toward the Abernyte School Fund.

07/09/2025

No alarm today, you wake up happily tangled in the linen bedding, the sun starting to rise over the Carse of Gowrie. The kettle is atop the stove you managed to keep burning all night, coffee in the pour over, mugs at the ready. Your socks and boots await your feet, walks to be taken, goats to laugh at, donkeys to scritch. Before you head out, you light the green egg, pop something inside ready for your return. You get back, flop onto the bed and have the most perfect afternoon nap. Autumn isn’t that bad really. We’ve got a very rare full weekend of availability that’s popped up in all of our houses and huts from the 14-17th of November. Take a wee step back from your hectic life and come to stay. It feels like many moons ago that came to stay and took this photo

04/09/2025

Last market of the year! Next Wednesday, 10th September, 3pm-7pm!

It’s hard to believe that we’ve whizzed through this summer and the last Local Produce Market of the year is on the horizon. We’d love for you to join us for a last hurrah, to support the wonderful producers who have made it out to the farm each month to bring you their glorious produce.

Let’s see this years markets out with a bang- please share far and wide with your friends and family 🌱🫏

This month, we’ll have:














tuskers

02/09/2025

A summer to remember, of hazy evenings, abundant but far too early berries, warmth on our skin with occasional deluges- two things being true at the same time. Enjoying the long, hot days- yet being a little alarmed at what they could mean, concerned about winter grazing (not so much for ourselves but our southern friends and family), worried about the birds having enough to eat over winter. The hottest summer on record. I started this post thinking I was going to encourage you to book a stay for autumn and winter (please do- we’d love to see you!), slightly shocked at how fast the summer has whizzed by - but this is where we ended up, a little more melancholic than planned!

02/09/2025

02/09/2025

02/09/2025

WHATS ON

We absolutely love welcoming you to the farm- and we’ve got an ace little selection of events coming up over the next couple of months.

Our last Local Produce Market of the year: Wednesday 10th September, 3pm-7pm

Sunset Yoga + Tisane with Evy- Tuesday 16th September

Spoon Carving with Louise Forbes Design- Sunday 21st September

Grassland Fungi Identification with Monica Wilde- Monday 22nd September

Cheesemaking Workshop with Kristen Allen- Friday 17th October

If you’d like to read a little more or book tickets- head on over to www.guardswell.co.uk/events

28/08/2025

Have you booked in for Spoon Carving and Lunch (provided by Eastfield) with Louise Forbes yet ? There are still a few spots left and it is a workshop not be missed.

Sunday 21st September : 10:00-16:00 | £90
https://www.guardswell.co.uk/store/p/spoon-carving-with-louise-forbes-sep-2025

It’s hard to describe the pleasure you get from stirring something with your own kitchen spoon, sprinkling sugar on strawberries from a wooden teaspoon carved by yourself, or even just sitting and rubbing your thumb over the bowl of something that you lovingly spent hours crafting. Whether its a stirring spoon or a coffee scoop... you'll leave with something you'll love forever.
We have managed to pin down the amazing Louise Forbes, of Louise Forbes design fame, to run another Spoon Carving day course at Guardswell Farm. It will be a jolly affair with happy chatter, all tools and materials provided...and you'll leave with a spoon that you carved yourself!

We'll also break for a seasonal lunch provided by Eastfield (Dundee) to ensure that tummies are not left rumbling...as well as tea and coffee flowing throughout the day.