Welcome to
Our Cornish Farm

Farming old stories
to restore a sense of place and
the sacredness of stewardship

Charles, John, Felicity, Beth, Wilbur and Freddie

We are John and Beth Featherby.

In the autumn of 2025, after 20 years of living and working in and around Hertfordshire and London we have replanted our family of six deep into Cornwall.

Why?

Our nation is in a season of change: challenges abound. And woven through it all is a form of meaning and spiritual crisis.

Modernity’s flat, hyper-secular materialism stripped society of a cosmic, sacred story to live within and disconnection from our selves, community, a sense of place and the natural world followed.

Our hope for Our Cornish Farm is to re-inhabit that sacred story with how we live as a family, steward the land and participate in community.

Whilst it felt the step we were called to next, it is not without a plethora of questions and unknowns.

We hope you will be a companion on our way. We will certainly welcome the prayers and company!

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The place we call home

  • The Place

    Our Cornish Farm is nestled in the ancient parish of St Veep, between Lerryn and Penpoll, on the coastal side of Lostwithiel and Fowey.

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  • The History

    St Veep has a long history of monastic life and prayer with three small church priories within close proximity.

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  • The Farm

    The land is used for the raising and rearing of the historic British breed of South Devons, sheep, grass and some grass and crops.

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  • The Orchards

    The house and farmyard are surrounded by three orchards of varying sizes with a fourth nearby. Cider is a cultural imperative here!

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  • Trebant Water

    One side is bound by Trebant Water, an historic and charming stream that runs down to the creek edge of Fowey Estuary.

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Big Topics
that stir us

Beauty.
England.
Land.
Faith.
Family.
Enterprise.
Myth.
Mysticism.

Latest Writings…

  • The Return of Spirituality & Religion: Reshaping business and investment

    One hypothesis of our project is that Western organisations are caught in a pincer like movement.

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  • 'Spiritual Capital' - Is it a concept about to start coming of age?

    One capital that is ever present but rarely formally discussed is that of ‘Spiritual Capital’.

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  • Faith, Sport & The Spiritual Root of Hogwarts

    It’s the early 1800s, there is no state education and English boarding schools are feral.

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  • God is back and the implication for business is significant

    It is the mid ‘90s and small groups of individuals are meeting in pubs and homes to discuss something…

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  • Wendell Berry

    “It may be that when we no longer know what to do,we have come to our real workand when we no longer know which way to go,we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed.The impeded stream is the one that sings.”

  • William Kennedy

    “Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego.”

  • Roger Scruton

    "Through the pursuit of beauty we shape the world as a home, and in doing so we both amplify our joys and find consolation for our sorrows".