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:
Our family run Community Interest Company includes Jack with his practical outdoor skills. Always eager to share these, Jack is often seen swinging an axe or carving a spoon. There’s Grum with his enthusiasm for outdoor life and the environment, always keen to light the fire and get the sausages sizzling. Plus our local community associates who support various activities.
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.