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Tom Honeyman-Brown & Tom Turney at Tapnell Farm

A Message from the Owners – Wecome back!

After what seems like forever, we’re seriously excited about re-opening the farm this Saturday and can’t wait to welcome you all back to share this beautiful setting with us. During the last few months, we’ve been busy adapting our offer, making the farm as safe as we possibly can, for both staff and customers in this…

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Safe Stays at Tapnell Farm – measures we’ve put in place

Your safety and that of our staff is our highest priority and whilst we aim for your stay with us to be as ‘normal’ as possible, additional hygiene and safety measures have been put in place for everyone’s peace of mind. You, your family/ friends, are here after all, to relax, have fun, explore and…

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New Holiday Booking Facility Protects Customer Refunds

With so much uncertainty currently surrounding holidays and as a way of reassuring anyone who wants to book a break this year, Tom’s Eco Lodge has introduced a new booking facility which protects the customer and provides a full refund on cancellations. From today, all new accommodation bookings made for holidays taken after 1st August…

Life at Tapnell Farm online resources

NEW ONLINE RESOURCE LAUNCHED TO HELP WITH HOME SCHOOLING

With the Farm Park currently closed and children away from school, isolating at home, the team at Tapnell Farm have created a new online resource – Life at Tapnell Farm – a fun and educational series of videos, photos and worksheets that can be used by families to keep their children entertained and assist with…

Isle of Wight's First Aqua Park to open at Tapnell Farm

Isle of Wight’s First Aqua Park to open at Tapnell Farm

Construction is well underway for the Isle of Wight’s first outdoor, floating Aqua Park to open at Tapnell Farm this Spring. Located in the centre of Tapnell Farm, the Isle of Wight Aqua Park lake (measuring approximately 50m x 80m) will feature a floating, inflatable course with a range of obstacles, suitable for confident swimmers…

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Winter Break Offer with Free Ferry Travel and more

Book a short break or 7 night stay with our Winter Break Offer at Tapnell Farm this Winter, and we’ll cover the cost of your ferry travel! In addition, we will also include complimentary entry to Tapnell Farm Park for the duration of your stay. Tom’s Eco Lodge is a great place to stay at…

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Awarded Gold & Silver at Beautiful South Awards

For the second year running, Tom’s Eco Lodge won GOLD for Glamping Business of the Year at the Tourism South East, Beautiful South Tourism Awards (December 2019) The team also won SILVER for Wedding Venue of the Year for East Afton Farmhouse (pictured)

Tom's Eco Lodge awarded Visit England ROSE (Recognition of Service Excellence) Award 2019

Rewarded for Glamping Accommodation Excellence

Congratulations to Chloe, our Accommodation Manager, and all the team at Tom’s Eco Lodge glamping accommodation for being awarded the prestigious Visit England ROSE (Recognition of Service Excellence) Award (November 2019). Nominated by Visit England’s Quality Scheme Assessors, the Award recognises that our team ‘go above and beyond for their customers, providing the highest levels of customer…

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Isle Of Wight’s First Outdoor Floating Aqua Park To Open Spring 2020

Planning permission has now been granted for the Isle of Wight’s first outdoor, floating, inflatable Aqua Park to be constructed at Tapnell Farm, with plans to open Spring next year. Around 6 new jobs will be created. Located in the centre of Tapnell Farm, the Aqua Park lake (measuring approximately 50m x 80m) will feature…

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Tapnell Farm Scoops National Award for Best Farm Attraction

Tapnell Farm Scoops National Award for Best Farm Attraction Tapnell Farm Park fought off tough competition from around the UK to win the award for “Small Farm Attraction of the Year” at the National Farm Attractions Network (NFAN) annual conference and awards ceremony last week. The NFAN annual awards, which are often described as the…

Winter Events

Winter Events at Tapnell Farm

Winter 17/18 Events at Tapnell Farm The temperature outside may be dropping, but things are hotting up at the Farm, with a packed programme of events to keep you entertained all the way through to the Spring! The Cow Co Events December 2017 Friday 1st December: Steak Club – our monthly meeting for steak fans,…

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Christmas Gift Guide for Kids

Christmas Gift Guide for Kids In a few weeks’ time, Santa Claus will be starting his epic journey delivering presents around the world (he’ll be calling in at Tapnell Farm Park with his reindeer before he leaves!). Whilst we can be sure he has already sorted and wrapped all his presents for delivery, some of…

Christmas at Tapnell Farm

Christmas at Tapnell Farm

Christmas at Tapnell Farm PLEASE NOTE: If you are looking for information on the 2018 Christmas events, this will be released at www.tapnellfarmpark.com soon. Christmas Tap ‘N’ Ale – 16th December Our Tap ‘N’ Ale parties are becoming a bit of a tradition at The Cow Co, where every few months we gather together for…

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5 Top Tips for a Happy Halloween

5 Top Tips for a Happy Halloween The age-old tradition of Halloween means different things to different people. To some of us, it means getting dressed up as witches and wizards, and wearing skeleton pyjamas. To others, it means watching horror films, and telling scary stories. And to almost all of us, it means carving…

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Classic Buses and Beer Weekend

Please note that The Cow and Tapnell Farm are not part of the Classic Buses and Beer Weekend 2019.

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Christmas Jumper Weekend at Tapnell Farm

Pull on a festive knit and get involved with Christmas Jumper Weekend at Tapnell Farm Park and The Cow Co this December from Friday 16th until Sunday 18th. The whole family is invited to go wild with wool and wear their seasonal sweater with pride, as the Park and its residents go silly for a…

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Veteran Visitors Return for Wallaby Welcome

Veteran Visitors Return for Wallaby Welcome Tapnell Farm Park welcomed two very special guests during October Half-term, as two seasoned Isle of Wight holidaymakers – who met and married on the Island, and have been visiting for over 50 years – returned to see their favourite mob of wallabies. Therese Willmore (84), and her husband…

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Baby Sleep & Routine Workshop at The Loft

Baby Sleep & Routine Workshop at The Loft Attention all mums of young babies and mums to be! Are you having issues getting baby to sleep through the night, or take their daytime naps without a struggle, or are you expecting a baby and want to increase the chances of getting a good night’s sleep…

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Tapnell Cows Blowing Off Some Steam

Tapnell Cows Blowing Off Some Steam One of Tapnell Farm’s collection of lifesize cows has been spotted in a rather unusual location – on the platform of the new Train Story exhibition at Isle of Wight Steam Railway! The lifesize model calf has been loaned from The Cow Co as the finishing piece to a…

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Summer Sunset Shindigs

Summer Sunset Shindigs PLEASE NOTE: FOR FULL LISTINGS ON THE 2018 SUMMER SHINDIGS PLEASE GO TO: www.thecowco.com Join us at The Cow Co Restaurant & Bar this summer to celebrate the long summer evenings with live music, tasty food, and some great entertainment! And with a bit of luck we will all be treated…

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Welcome Back to the Play Barn!

Our Play Barn reopened yesterday, and our visitors have been noticing it has had a pretty big facelift! We’ve had lots of messages over the last few months from people wondering what was happening with it – so here is our simple guide to Tapnell Farm’s Play Barn 2.0: What’s new in the Play Barn?…

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I (HEART) The Cow Co (13th Feb 2016)

On Saturday February 13th we would like to invite you all to join us in celebrating our love… of all things Food! Our talented team of chefs are being unleashed for the evening, and will be flaunting their culinary skills with a delicious 5-course special set menu, showcasing The Cow Co Restaurant in all its…

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Live Music at The Cow Co: Emma Jane (30th Jan 2016)

After a short break we are back with our first Live Music night of 2016! On January 30th we welcome Emma Jane to The Cow Co… Originally from the Isle of Wight, Emma is a singer/songwriter who has been performing at a range of festivals and events since a young age, including the Isle of…

Fitness and Wellbeing in The Loft

Moo Year, New You

If December is the month of over indulgence, then January is almost always the month to climb back on the fit and healthy wagon! With that in mind we are starting up our “Moo Year, New You” initiative for January, and will providing a variety of fitness and well-being classes and workshops in The Loft,…

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Easter Tap N’ Ale (27th March 2016)

Following on from our sell-out Christmas event we are bringing back the Tap N’ Ale Party for Easter. This next one will take place on Easter Sunday 27th March 2016, giving you the Bank Holiday Monday off next day to recover! Tickets are on-sale now – click here to buy Our main band for the…

Festive Real Ale Weekend

Festive Real Ale Weekend

We will be making your Christmas “Merry” slightly early this year, as we host our first Real Ale Weekend at The Cow Co! Starting on Thursday 17th December and running through until Sunday 20th December we will be offering a total of 11 different Isle of Wight beers, served from a mixture of bottles and…

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Coming Soon to Tapnell Farm!

The Isle of Wight’s largest visitor attraction in almost 15 years will be created in 2016, when we add an exciting new farm park and adventure activities base to our growing collection of things to do on site!

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Youtube Star heads up next “Live Moo-sic” Night

The second Live Music night at The Cow Co takes place on December 5th, with Island folk / pop singer songwriter Holly Kirby providing the musical entertainment.

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Christmas Tap N’ Ale (SOLD OUT)

Radio DJ and Bestival mastermind Rob Da Bank is set to headline Tapnell Farm’s very first “Christmas Tap N’ Ale” on Saturday December 19th 2015, with support from one of the Island’s favourite Soul/Funk/Jazz collectives, The Soul Lounge.

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Take Home the Taste of The Cow Co

If you’ve ever eaten at The Cow Co Restaurant there is a good chance you’ve sampled some of our incredibly tasty Cow Co sauces. You’ll find them in our chef’s recipes, in our burgers, and on our tables – and you can now take them home with you!

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Live Music at The Cow Co

The Cow Co will be launching a series of new Live Music Nights this autumn, opening on Saturday 21st November with a performance from Island singer-songwriter Marlee King.

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HAVE A COW CO CHRISTMAS

With the festive season almost upon us we have opened our books for Christmas parties! From November 25th to December 20th we will be serving a special 2 or 3 course Christmas menu for party bookings, lunches and evening meals.

Christmas Open Studios

ART ON THE FARM

Things are starting to get arty at Tapnell Farm as our brand new gallery has opened… We are also excited to announce that Isle of Wight Arts will be joining us on Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th December as we host their Christmas Open Studios at Tapnell Farm!

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PLAYBARN NOW OPEN!

The new Play Barn at Tapnell Farm is now open! Inside we’ve got zip wires, straw bale tunnels, Imagination Playground, a giant chalkboard, climbing wall, and of course the amazing jumping pillow to entertain the little (and slightly bigger) ones during their visit.

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A BIT ABOUT THE COW CO.

With beef and dairy brilliance at its core, The Cow Co. restaurant elevates the humble cow to greatness with a menu packed full of seasonal salads, great British classics, daily specials and spectacular burgers (if we don’t say

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PLAYBARN… UNDER CONSTRUCTION!

Not long to go now until we’ve got our indoor playbarn ready to use. Joss (milker and couldn’t do without farm all-rounder) is busy getting the weaned calves ready and the building crew are getting creative with straw bail play – something they never thought they’d be

Jumpin Play pillow

BOUNCIN’

Our new pillow is installed and ready for some serious bouncing! With room for up to 35 people, it seems to be the adults who are most at risk of breaking something – everyone’s a gymnast as soon as they hit that pillow! Is there a better way to use an old silage clamp?!

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WHAT WOOD’NT THEY ENGRAVE?

We are chuffed to be able to team up with a very local and talented company named Axby & Hirst who are working with us on a range of bespoke wood engraved and leather engraved giftware for our shop. Axby & Hirst are a family run business with many creative

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FINE THINGS TO COME

We are very excited to have discovered The Fine Cheese Company who are based in Bath. They kindly invited us up to spend the day with them, tasting and learning about cheese and their partners (Crunchy crackers, and fabulous fruits for cheese) Their shop is

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IT’S TIME TO LAUNCH…

It’s been a long time preparing, sourcing and general chewing the cud but now we’re ready to launch and we’re excited to share it with you. We’ve got a lot of people to thank and a lot of people who can be proud of

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ONE OF OUR FAVOURITES

We know it’s not beef or dairy but we can’t get enough of the doughy deliciousness from the Island Baker – not only are they making our tasty buns, have a look at what else they do here: www.theislandbakers.com

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A BUSY TIME OF YEAR

It’s the time of year when everything gets growing at the farm and this year is no different. Our Maize has just been planted, the first cut of silage is in and under cover and the cows are out to pasture – it’s busy, busy, busy!

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KEEPING IT GREEN

This year we’ve put in a new biomass boiler at the farm and with the new restaurant and shop coming on-line, it’s got plenty of work to do! Heating the water for the whole site the boiler uses wood from renewable sources to help us build on our growing ‘eco’ credentials.