A fortnight, a space, and no money in either direction.
A maker, a chef, a writer or a photographer gets the tasting room and the run of the farm for two weeks. We charge nothing and we pay nothing. The only condition is that something gets published at the end of it.
Why no money changes hands.
A paid residency is a commission, and a commission comes with an expectation about the output. The moment we are paying, we have an opinion about what gets made, and the thing that gets made is worse.
A residency the resident pays for is a room rental with a nice name on it, and it selects for people who can afford a fortnight off rather than for people with something to say.
So: nothing either way. We provide the space, the access and the introductions. They provide two weeks. Neither party owes the other anything except the publication at the end.
What a resident gets.
The space
- The tasting room
- Weekdays, 8am to 8pmIt is booked most Fridays and you lose those
- A corner of the barn
- If you need mess or spaceCold from October
- Storage
- A locked cupboardWhich is less romantic and more useful than the room
- Wifi
- Yes, and it is poorIt is a stone building in a valley
The access
- The fields
- Any time, with a phone call firstMachinery moves and you need to know where
- The livestock
- With whoever is doing themAt their hours, which start early
- The shop and the yard
- Any opening hourBehind the counter by arrangement
- The people
- Introduced, not scheduledEverybody here is doing a job. Fit around it
The terms
- Fee to you
- None
- Fee from you
- None
- Accommodation
- None, hereNobody sleeps on this holding. We will suggest somewhere
- Rights in your work
- Entirely yoursWe ask for nothing and license nothing
- What we ask
- Publish somethingAnywhere, in any form, and tell us where
Who it is for, and who it is not.
| Works well | Works badly |
|---|---|
| A chef developing a menu round one ingredient | Anybody who needs a working kitchen |
| A photographer on a long project | Anybody who needs a controlled set |
| A writer who wants to be bored in a field | Anybody who wants an interview with Clarkson |
| A maker who needs space and stone light | Anybody who needs three-phase and quiet |
| A researcher on rural economics | Anybody expecting an audience |
| Somebody at the start of a career | Somebody with a publicist |
The one that did not work.
In 2024 a residency went to somebody whose proposal was, in retrospect, a promotional plan wearing a project’s clothes. Six days in, it became clear that the intention was a set of photographs with a recognisable barn in them and a launch attached.
Nobody behaved badly. It simply was not what the fortnight is for, and we had not asked hard enough at the proposal stage. It ended early, amicably, and the selection question has been the same one ever since: what would you make here that you could not make anywhere else?
Anybody who cannot answer that in two sentences is answering a different question.
Residencies, at a glance.
Two weeks
Weekdays, and you lose most Fridays.
No money either way
Which is the whole design.
Publish something
Anywhere. That is the only condition.
Nobody sleeps here
We will suggest somewhere that will have you.
The other things that happen in these buildings.
Weddings, away-days and a licence that runs out in October.
What people actually ask.
The two questions this page gets most, answered without a support ticket.
No. This is an unsolicited third-party demonstration build, not affiliated with or endorsed by any of the businesses it describes.
Public filings, published rankings and press reporting, each labelled on the page as a verified record, a founder claim or a third-party estimate.
