The Summerdown collection harnesses the power of peppermint for body, bath and home Winter blues. Post-Christmas Seasonal slump. Blue Monday. Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). It’s very normal to feel like you’ve lost your mojo at this time of year. Though there are many contributing factors, there’s a clear link between …
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Boost your body this January
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Our Valentine’s Survival guide
Yikes it’s that time of year again. Whether you’re a romantic or not (did you know 59% of men don’t believe there’s a point to Valentine’s Day!?), there’s no getting away from red roses and over-priced restaurants on 14th February! So here’s our survival guide… Be my Valentine? Do you remember receiving a …
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Six steps to creating the perfect bath time experience
As the night’s are getting darker, it’s easy to feel a little bit fed up and find yourself hankering after sunny Summer’s evenings. But why not embrace these cooler darker nights and see it as an opportunity to enjoy a cosy night in and re-discover the very British pastime of ‘having a bath’. Six steps …
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Wow we’ve finished ahead of schedule…
After Farm Manager Ian’s fifteen minutes of fame on Countryfile, normal life on the farm has resumed and Ian has got back to his day job. If you didn’t manage to catch the programme on September 4th, it’s still available on BBC i-player. Incredibly we managed to finish #harvest16 ahead of schedule. After a slow start to …
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Behind the scenes with BBC Countryfile
Thursday 18th August would have been a normal busy day of harvesting and distilling at Summerdown Farms, had it not been the long-awaited day that had been selected by the BBC to come and film Countryfile. It had taken nearly two years from when we first contacted the programme researchers to tell them about …
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Ahhh……the Great British weather!
Short and sweet this week as the Summerdown Farm is busy busy busy! It’s amazing how the weather can change so quickly in a fortnight. Last time we wrote we were in the middle of that hot and balmy weather which was doing brilliant things for our crops. Since then Farm Manager Ian …
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It’s hotting up…notes from the Summerdown farm
It’s hotting up this week, in more ways than one! Ian’s back from his well-earned break and his holiday probably feels like a distant memory as it’s been busy busy busy this week getting ready for the onslaught of harvest. This means cleaning down all the machinery and grain stores and checking everything is in first class …
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Notes from the Summerdown Farm
Notes from the farm A day in the life of a farmer is never dull…so in the first of our ‘Notes from the farm’ blogs, we caught up with Summerdown Farm Manager Ian to find out what he’s been up to. Well the good news is, the rain hasn’t stopped him and there’s been …
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A little bit of wildflower inspiration….
Chelsea may be over, but no doubt you’ve been inspired to get outside, put your gardening gloves on and make some changes in your own garden. Here at Summerdown we’re passionate about the English countryside and our natural habitat. That’s why over the years we’ve been working closely with international charity Plantlife on conversation projects to …
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How to get the best out of your home fragrance
With the growing popularity of home fragrance, we asked the lovely Catherine who hosts our fairs and events if she would share some of her trade secrets with us. We’re pretty proud of our best-selling reed diffuser because we know from our customers that it not only fills the air with the scent of …
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Mr Luke Christian reviews our Reed Diffuser
SPRING/SUMMER HOME SCENTS Before becoming a blogger, I had never really associated candles and diffusers with the Spring/Summer seasons. I had always felt that they were best suited for the cold, Autumn/Winter periods. It is safe to say that this is no longer the case, and I feel embarrassed to have only cottoned onto this …
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Jennifer Hirsch Dip. Hort Kew – The Beauty Botanist is smitten by Summerdown hand lotion
Putting an experience into words When The Beauty Botanist first discovered Summerdown products in her local farm shop, she was impressed enough to get in touch with us directly through the Summerdown website. So we sent her some more products from our collection to try, and asked her for her overall impression. We’re delighted that …
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