Our second 'Grand Day Out' is in and around the beautiful village of Clapham in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. It's an easy 15 minute drive up the A65 and is a fantastic place to visit at all times of the year. It's one of our favourite places to visit, whether it's just for a [...]
By Joanne, February 2023 Our first 'Grand Day Out' is and around the wonderful Gisburn Forest and Stocks Reservoir - just a short drive (or bike ride) away from Peaks and Pods in the Forest of Bowland. It's a place we go to regularly to stretch our legs, breathe in the clean air and recharge [...]
By Joanne, February 2023 Every new arrival at Peaks and Pods finds home baking in their pod cake tin. It's usually a lemon drizzle cake, based on a tried-and-tested recipe by baking-extraordinaire Mary Berry. We've baked different cakes for vegan or gluten intolerant guests, and occasionally we mix things up with sticky ginger cakes or [...]
It was an exciting moment at Peaks and Pods this week when we let the cows into the Cow Pasture for the first time this summer. We’ve been working on our camping pod site since January, which takes up a corner of the large pasture, but the cows have been safely tucked up in the [...]
It’s been a quiet year without any hens and the time’s almost come to restock my flock, this time at our new Peaks and Pods location. My last lot of laying ladies met with an untimely end when they became dinner for a fox, and worst of all it took my all-time favourite hen Ivy [...]
Spanner and screwdriver at the ready, today John and I put together the first of our five new fire pits destined for the private spaces outside our luxury camping pods on Boustagill Farm. We’ll be lighting a fire tonight after sundown, and we’re looking forward to seeing the glow through the cut-outs of moons and [...]
Who doesn’t love a perfect pizza, freshly cooked, crispy base with cheese oozing from the sides and a tasty topping? At Peaks and Pods headquarters, it was something that we decided we wanted to offer from very early on. It was my cousin John, a writer for Cycling Plus Magazine, who really got me thinking [...]
