{"id":4335,"date":"2015-07-02T08:02:11","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T12:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=4335"},"modified":"2015-07-02T08:02:11","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T12:02:11","slug":"recharging-our-batteries-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/recharging-our-batteries-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Recharging our batteries – 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"20150612_1\"<\/a>….after a brief detour to the Cotswolds to stay in one of our favorite inns—Russells in Broadway—we plunged into the heart of Devon country.\u00a0 This is\u00a0famed Exmoor, in legend at least the birthplace of Devon.\u00a0 The moor is both beautiful and forbidding but nearby are some of the finest Devon farms in the world.<\/p>\n

And there is none finer than Ashott Barton, one of our partners’\"20150612_152\"<\/a> properties just outside Exford.\u00a0 There, Shiamala Comer and her son, Jeremy, have an outstanding herd of truly traditional Devon.<\/p>\n

Not only her colleagues agree with her, but\u00a0Shiamala’s devotion to detail—and the results she has achieved—can’t be denied.\u00a0 It was she who bred Millennium Falcon<\/em>, who has become\"20150612_69\"<\/a>\u00a0Traditional Devon America’s<\/em> prime herd bull.<\/p>\n

Sadly, Shiamala has decided it’s time for her to retire and is scheduling a dispersal sale for later in the year.\u00a0 Her hope is to sell the herd intact to one buyer and, for the sake of what remains in England of traditional genetics, we hope so, too.<\/p>\n

Son Jeremy is certainly wonderful with the animals and could\"20150612_101\"<\/a>\u00a0possibly continue; but like most of the younger generation, he has regretfully decided the future is in the city…and computers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

….after a brief detour to the Cotswolds to stay in one of our favorite inns—Russells in Broadway—we plunged into the heart of Devon country.\u00a0 This is\u00a0famed Exmoor, in legend at least the birthplace of Devon.\u00a0 The moor is both beautiful and forbidding but nearby are some of the finest Devon farms in the world. And there is none finer than Ashott Barton, one of our partners’ properties just outside Exford.\u00a0 There, Shiamala Comer and her son, Jeremy, have an outstanding herd of truly traditional Devon. Not only her colleagues agree with her, but\u00a0Shiamala’s devotion to detail—and the results she has achieved—can’t be denied.\u00a0 It was she who bred Millennium Falcon, who has become\u00a0Traditional Devon America’s prime herd bull. Sadly, Shiamala has decided it’s time for her to retire and is scheduling a dispersal sale for later in the year.\u00a0 Her hope is to sell the herd intact to one buyer and, for the sake of what remains in England of traditional genetics, we hope so, too. Son Jeremy is certainly wonderful with the animals and could\u00a0possibly continue; but like most of the younger generation, he has regretfully decided the future is in the city…and computers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120,24,83,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ashott-barton","category-england","category-falcon","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4342,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4335\/revisions\/4342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}