Scotch Lodge Farm

Scotch Lodge Farm is a working family farm in Earls Barton, Northamptonshire, with a Farm Shop, Cafe (now closed through lockdown), Craft Shop and Herb Centre (New season plants available March). Our opening hours are Monday to Sunday, 10am4pm. We also operate a "click & collect" service and "virtual shopping" Our food is prepared and cooked to ord... er, we use only the very best of ingredients and our own produce. "Our family farming history dates back more than 350 years to Cumbria. Due to hardship on the land, six families, including my great grandfather, migrated down to the Midlands in the 1880s with all their chattles and livestock. They thought the midlands pastureland was lush grass for livestock and rich soil for crops. My family settled at Mobbs Wood in Warwickshire, mid to late 1880 when my grandfather was young. In the early 1900's, grandfather took on the tenancy of Hill Farm at Mears Ashby, all six of his children were born and raised there. My father, James Beaty, was the fifth child and, as a toddler, worked carrying water to the hens and pigs. When tall enough to work he learned to sort and care for cattle and to be responsible, with his younger brother, to walk them to the markets at Rugby and Northampton, along with the outlying family farms. as far away as Market Harborough. He left school at the age of 14 to join his father on the farm full time. On 1st November 1939, dad volunteered to the Tank Corp Regiment/1st Royal Tank Regiment and was shipped out with the Expeditionary Forces to France. He spent the whole of the war fighting in the 8th Army Royal Tank Regiment, firstly at the Battle of Dunkirk (France), then Beda Fomm and Tobruk (Libya), the two Battles of El Alamein (Egypt), Tripoli (Libya) and the Anzio Beach Landings (Italy). He fought his way up through Italy alongside the allied American forces through Rome and Pisa. At the end of the war, he came back to England and was demobbed from Castle Ashby. He was awarded several medals: The 1939-45 Star for the Battle of Britain, The ...Read More