Going Green

We've joined the Green Tourism Business Scheme to improve the sustainability of our holiday cottages. We get an inspection every two years and the first one will be at the end of this year.

There are lots of things the get organised before the end of the year, recording our environmental impact in many ways, energy use, waste etc. It's interesting and after doing the green tourism btec level 2, I know more of what to aim for.

Two big things to sort out are energy use and waste. This weeks target is recycling and reuse. So I'm getting more bins at the rubbish area to collect the 4 kinds of waste that our council collects. Probably the most important thing is signing the whole thing up - this mornings task.

First Posting about the cottages

First posting of the Cargurra Farm blog, well writting things for the web, and to be interesting will be a challenge.

On the farm we're waiting for a nice bit of weather to do 30 acres of silage. The cottages are full until the end of August and people seem to be enjoying themselves.

We've just bought some really nice prints by the local artist Helen Setterington - she has gallery in Boscastle. We've been them up in the cottages Saturdays. She does wonderful paintings of Boscastle and the local coast.

Julian