Experience Muddy Creek Cutting

THE PLACE

Dinner in the garden roomA 10-acre farmlet since the 1920s.

We now grow 10 ewes and their lambs, ducks and ducklings,
chooks and chickens, extensive vegetable, herb and flower gardens, trees and a large pond.


Old world: History of Muddy Creek Cutting

OLD WORLD

Front door to mudbrick house

Jim Blyth and his wife built the mudbrick house and mudbrick bacon-curing shed in several stages in the 1930s.

They lived here until 1960, making a living from raspberries, apples, which were sent to Dunedin markets by train, and making bacon for local farms.

They also did a lot of mudbrick construction around Lauder.


Old world returned: Ducks in the pond

 

 

Speech markMemories are made of this!! Artistic, historic, warm hospitality makes a wonderfully unique homestay. Speech mark

Anne and Ken Rogers, Christchurch

OLD WORLD RETURNED

Vase of roses in sunroomCurrent owner Kevin returned from teaching and mudbrick work in West Africa. He found this land in his home area to grow food, teach locally and move towards self-sufficiency.

Kevin has tinkered with building in mud, milking sheep and goats, making cheese and salamis, breeding animals and growing vegetables for the table here over the past 30 years.

In 2005, Kevin and Ross refurbished the bacon curing shed into a thoroughly modern and comfortable house, leaving the 5-bedroom original farmhouse available for letting, with the Otago Central Rail Trail literally at the back door.

Kevin, an ex-teacher, gardens , farms and produces fantastic food. Ross an ex-graphic artist and icecream shop owner, paints in oils and water colours. Together they bring you this unique and charming dining and accommodation experience.