History

Di and Andy Grenyer moved from Hampshire and took over The Llugwy in May 2001, during the foot-and-mouth crisis.

The farm had previously operated as a sheep cheese dairy but as it is too small to be economically viable it had not traded for some time and was in a dilapidated state.

The first year of ownership was devoted to exciting things such as concreting, roofing, fencing, installing new sewage systems and drilling a borehole for beautiful fresh water.

When the FMD restrictions were removed we began to stock the land. Two Welsh hill ponies and a bay mare supplemented our small herd of coloured horses, which had accompanied us from Southampton. Frankie and Toby, the two donkeys, arrived together with some English goats, various sheep, chickens, ducks and two female llamas, Rena and Chi from whom we subsequently bred two more females, Misty and Gemma.

Work continues to improve the farm and to develop our philosophy of keeping the animals in the most natural and advantageous conditions possible.