With summer now just a passing memory we are well and truly into the midsts of winter, Christmas is just around the corner and the buildup to this event is a busy time on the Farm, ensuring Christmas poultry and meats are fat and ready for the table. With extended grass growth in the latter …
In the UK, bacon is considered almost as a staple among meat eaters! It adorns our sandwiches, our breakfast plates, and any occasion a quick snack is in order… Bacon and it’s cured brethren haven’t had a very good time in the press recently, but this is much to do with the additives, preservatives and …
Magic Orchard has been nominated for the UK Festival Awards; please vote for us! We’ve been nominated in four category’s: BEST NEW FESTIVAL, BEST SMALL FESTIVAL, GRASS ROOTS AWARD, & BEST TOILETS!! Please vote for us, it takes less than one minute online – CLICK ON ANY IMAGE BELOW OR RIGHT HERE! It’s amazing to have been …
The idea had floated around for several years before last year’s small-scale event, planned only as an end of season party for Cowran’s own staff, and friends of the Estate. 2015 took a completely different approach though; moving on several strides from our fourteen foot trailer as a main stage, to a huge eight metre …
Cowran Estate has been buzzing all week, in preparation for this weekend’s Magic Orchard festival; our team has worked so incredibly hard! Much of the site structure is now in place, including the all important Snooty Fox Bar; headed by our Purveyor of Artisan Beers – Anthony Meynell; ask him about beer and you’ll be …
In my last installment I was happily NOT murdered as a result of leaving the city and began my new life in the country. (Read part 1: ‘Welcome to the Jungle’) But the plot thickens… Even though I can hear sheep bleating while sitting in my back garden, it turns out Barrow is not really …
Magic Orchard 2015 Ticket Buyers Information ****UPDATE FOR ALL OF YOU CAMPING***** Apologies but due to a change to the site layout we cannot allow anyone to park next to their tents. On arrival you will be guided to a parking space in our car park and shown where the campsite is (It is a short …
When I first visited Barrow, I was being driven through Newby Bridge, on the A590, and was struck with an intense and strange terror, of being murdered in the woods by my new boyfriend who lived ‘up north’; which to me meant not London and further than Manchester. It was REALLY dark! A kind of …
Cowran Estate’s Magic Orchard welcomes The Orchid Hunters! “If I could build a house on stilts, I’d live out in the ocean” – Plum Island The Orchid Hunters were a funky, upbeat pop infused band, until recently when a membership change has put them on a different musical path. The band decided to forego percussion …
Cowran Estate would like to offer an official pre-welcome to, the legend that is, Dave Haslam, headlining at this year’s Magic Orchard festival in three weeks time! Preparations are well underway, tickets have now completely sold-out, and we can’t wait for those lucky few, who did manage to get their hands on one!! Dave Haslam …
