Spot Home Farm: What Occurs When a Textile Designer Creates a Campsite

We expect British textile designer Gemma Shepherd has invented the right tenting accent: a three-in-one merino wool wrap/throw/blanket. Not solely that, she opened what, for us, might be the right campsite wherein to put on it: Spot Home Farm.

Let’s have a look round.

The tents are positioned in a meadow that varieties a part of Gemma’s 50-acre household farm. The meadow is surrounded by Orlestone Forest Nature Reserve, a protected and historical woodland that’s dwelling to nightingales, deer, and uncommon species of moths and butterflies. “The meadow itself is that this magical enclave,” explains Gemma. “There may be an outdated hunt leap in a single nook of the sector. Climb over that and also you’re straight out into the forest. For those who stroll far sufficient, you’ll emerge on the pub within the village of Warehorne, which is ideal.” (In our guide, all good campsites require a stroll to a village pub and a straightforward meal.)

Gemma has arrange two bell tents—one massive and one little—and furnished them with “correct beds” (one other prerequisite for pleased tenting). Within the bigger tent there’s a tremendous king, two single beds, and house for a 3rd beneficiant camp mattress. There’s even an “old-school washstand” on the foot of the mattress so that you gained’t end up brushing your tooth in a bush on the finish of the evening. There’s additionally a log burner and armchairs in every (tick: that is the UK).