Steeky Meadow is a place for nature, crafts, and wellness. It is a managed woodland offering a location for learning about and experiencing nature, learning traditional craft skills, and gaining the benefits of being outdoors.
Steeky Meadow CIC is a registered Community Interest Company that engages with local community support groups and individuals. We aim to work towards nature regeneration; promoting low-impact activities, encouraging traditional bush-craft and land management skills, and giving back more to the land than we take from it.
Who we are:
We’re a family-run Community Interest Company with a real love for the outdoors and sharing it with others.
Jack shares his practical outdoor skills with anyone keen to learn and is often found swinging an axe, carving a spoon, or demonstrating traditional woodland crafts. Grum brings his enthusiasm for outdoor life and the natural environment, and is always happy to get the fire going and the sausages sizzling.
We’re also lucky to have a wonderful bunch of local friends and community associates who lend a hand, share their own skills, and help make our activities and events what they are.
Why we do this:
At Steeky we appreciate the benefits of being outdoors and getting close to nature. We like to share this with you and our community. We run Steeky as a nature and wildlife friendly location. Come and join us!
“Steeky isn’t a big place. But we love and get absorbed in the detail – the small things”
Our aim in everything we do is to work with nature, rather than simply extracting from it.
The Site
As well as the wetland meadow in the valley, the site offers a mixed broadleaf woodland, a young fruit orchard and a wildflower meadow, each supporting their own broad mix of flowers, fungi, flora and fauna.
Activities at Steeky are based around our shepherds hut Daisy, which as well as being the tool store, has a wood-burning stove for warmth and ensures a good supply of hot drinks.
Steeky Meadow sits on the edge of the peaceful village of Milton Combe with its 16th Century pub the Who’d Have Thought It – the ‘Whody’ and the Church of the Holy Spirit built in 1878. The Whody pub has 3 rooms for bed and breakfast and a resident ghost (a friendly one).
We are within the Tamar Valley National Landscape, close to Roborough Down, Buckland Abbey (National Trust) and Dartmoor National Park. Just a 5 minute drive through the lanes from the A386 Plymouth to Tavistock road.
The Name
Steeky Meadow comes from the original name of the wetland meadow at the bottom of the valley as part of Reepe’s Farm, as recorded on old tithe maps from 1842.