Welcome to the leafy haven of Ruby’s Wild Orchard, home to Green Hideaway Yurt; an exclusive-to-you camp providing all you need for an escape to the lovely countryside of north Devon. Yes! You really do get the 2 acres all to yourselves. And all you need to bring are your torch and towels! The camp is off-grid, and managed in a way that brings you comfortable, easy camping, whilst encouraging the local wildlife to remain here too.
The 16ft yurt has a king-sized bed, with the option to add up to 2 futon chair-beds (most suitable for children). All cotton bedding and extra blankets are provided. There’s a wood burner in the yurt for chillier evenings, as well as a fire bowl nearby.
If you’d like to bring a slightly larger group you can add your own tent as an extra, to sleep up to another 4 (maximum 8 people on site please). Next to the yurt is a kitchen tent with all you need for cooking and eating. We have solar lights, a gas shower and compost toilet. A fire bowl is located a small distance from the yurt and plenty of seating is provided.
Lynne the owner also has some fruit and veggie growing areas here.
If you feel energetic there is access (all less than an hour’s drive, at most), to the coasts of north Cornwall and Devon, with sandy beaches, rocky coves. surfing and coasteering courses, the south-west coast path and the northern edge of Dartmoor for hiking. The traffic-free cycling and walkingTarka Trail route, taking you along the glorious Torridge river and estuary is just a mile away. Also within easy distance you’ll find the RHS garden at Rosemoor, a pony-trekking centre and numerous local footpaths.
If all that sounds just too exhausting, and what you really crave is a rest, you can relax in a hammock with a book, while your kids, if you bring them, make dens in the spruce woodland. Watch the bird life visiting the feeders, or indulge in a gentle stroll by the river Torridge at Sheepwash bridge followed by a lazy pub lunch.
Ruby’s Wild Orchard is in an area reclaimed from spruce- woodland and planted up with some apple trees (an orchard only in a very informal sense). We have a small pond which can be pond-dipped to discover the newts and dragonfly nymphs, plenty of areas left wild for the insects and birds, but all managed in a way that makes being here cosy and comfortable.
You can accommodate up to 4 in the yurt, with the 2 futon chair-beds being most suitable for children. Add extra guests by bringing your own tent as an extra. (Max. 4 extra people, limit applies to tent size).