Sustainability at Swallowtail Hill

If you’ve stayed with us you’ll know that sustainability is at the core of everything we do. If you’ve chosen to holiday with us you’ve made a sustainable choice because we work endlessly to ensure your footprint on the planet is as light as possible while staying here.

That means we’re strict about everything:

From the suppliers we use – everything from the build of the cabins themselves and the fixtures and fittings, through to the food and drink we serve and sell, and the cleaning products we use.

To the zero waste policy we have. We compost all of your food waste and encourage you to waste as little as possible and we recycle and repurpose as much as we can.

And the off-grid accommodation – you either don’t have any power, or you have some that it provided by our photovoltaics.

And the compost loos – if you’ve used them you’ll know that the dry waste eventually feeds our nettle beds which are the perfect food for butterflies.

And the water treatment systems – grey water is naturally filtered and re-enters the water course pure.

That’s all before we even start on the conservation work we’ve been doing on the farm for the last 30 years – the diverse meadows the coppicing and hedgelaying, the grassland management and the wet meadow management – all designed to encourage biodiversity.

We’re always happy to answer your questions about our sustainability initiatives and our conservation work, and we often talk about our carbon reduction journey on our socials – so give us a follow!