Down on the farm

Le Doyenné, Île-de-France, France In a nutshell A small working farm and restaurant with a handful of charming bedrooms just 40 minutes south of Paris. What’s the vibe? The expansive dining room is ve

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It might be due to the popularity of Clarkson’s Farm , an increased concern for food provenance or the desire to have a lifestyle overhaul, but interest in smallholdings is on the rise, says Arabella Youens

It’s fair to say that the Cistercian monks who first founded L’Abbaye des Vaux de Cernay in 1118 would have been thoroughly shocked by what it’s become. But then these medieval killjoys lived lives of