Hagg Hill Farm
Hagg Hill Farm is a small independent farm in the North East of England, made up of fields, orchard and woodland — and it’s very much a work in progress.
This isn’t a perfectly manicured visitor attraction, and I don’t really want it to become one.
The farm is being developed slowly and thoughtfully, working with what is already here. I’m planting, restoring, growing food and herbs, encouraging wildlife and gradually creating spaces where people can make things, experience the seasons, spend time outdoors and simply slow down.
From handmade Christmas wreaths and workshops to floristry, accommodation and the developing Roots & Restore sanctuary, everything happening at Hagg Hill has one thing in common:
Nature. Creativity. Connection.
And behind all of it, there’s me.
Meet the owner
I’m Sarah, and Hagg Hill Farm is both my home and the slightly enormous project I’ve somehow found myself creating.
I’m happiest when I’m outside, growing something, making something, rescuing a plant that probably didn’t need rescuing, or coming up with another idea for a corner of the farm.
I’m also neurodivergent, and that has had a huge influence on what Hagg Hill is becoming.
I understand needing quiet without necessarily wanting complete isolation. I understand becoming overwhelmed by noise, people and expectations. And I understand that sometimes the best way to reset isn’t a structured wellness activity — it might be digging in soil, making something with your hands, walking through woodland, sitting beside a fire or simply being somewhere nobody expects anything from you.
That thinking sits behind Roots & Restore and increasingly behind Hagg Hill Farm as a whole.
But Hagg Hill isn’t only for neurodivergent people.
It’s for people with busy lives. People working high-pressure jobs. People carrying responsibilities. People who spend most of their time looking after everybody else. And people who simply enjoy nature and want somewhere a little different.
Why adult only?
One of the decisions I’ve made is that the Hagg Hill experience will be adult only.
That’s not because I don’t like children.
It’s because there are already lots of wonderful places designed around families. I want to protect something different here: a space where adults don’t have to compete with noise, crowds or constant activity.
A place where quiet is allowed.
A farm that’s still becoming
I don’t pretend Hagg Hill is finished.
It isn’t.
There are muddy boots, half-finished projects, seedlings everywhere, plans that change halfway through and probably considerably more plants than I originally intended.
But that’s also part of Hagg Hill.
You’re not arriving at something manufactured to look natural. You’re watching a real piece of land evolve.
Over time, more of what we use here will come directly from the farm — foliage for wreaths and floristry, herbs, fruit and vegetables, flowers, natural materials and eventually produce for other parts of the Hagg Hill vision.
I want the different parts of the farm to feed into one another rather than exist as separate businesses.
And I want to do it slowly enough that Hagg Hill never loses the thing that made me want to create all of this in the first place.
The feeling of having somewhere you can just be.
🌿 Hagg Hill Farm
Nature. Creativity. Connection.