SAVE OUR YURT!

In July 2014 we opened our tiny Farm Shop in Everton village selling produce from Stonegate Farm and Home Farm, Wiseton. We spent a fortune bringing agricultural storage up to standard including power, water, sewerage plus all fitting out, car park...and made a lovely garden from a corner of a field. Wonderful new customers from Everton and beyond sat outside in wind and rain until NOVEMBER eating strawberries, our home made sausage rolls, cakes made with our own eggs and sandwiches made from our own cold cuts. We took the plunge and went to the "Authentic Mongolian Yurt Company" in Wales and brought back a second-hand Yurt, originally from Ulaanbaatar, replete with stove, fleece lining and beautiful internal decoration. It was an instant hit!!

Harworth Pit winding gear is visible from the shop in an area that (A) needs to reinvent itself (B) is woefully lacking in bohemian influences (C) is beautiful and (D) set in the most famous valley you’ve never heard of!! A frieze has been commissioned to demonstrate the story of the Idle Valley including the Romans, the slaughter of the Pagan Anglo-Saxon King at Bawtry, the crowning of the first Viking King of England, the dissolution of the monasteries, the Pilgrim Fathers, Civil War and John Wesley. “Game of Thrones” eat your heart out!!

The frieze tells the story of the Farm Shop too because with excessively high river levels maintained by the authorities, our river bank land can no longer be cropped and is now put down to permanent grazing or willow (the willow had been planted to help local power stations to fulfil their renewables obligation – but they now import from abroad)! Drawn up by a local artist from Drakeholes and now ready to go to print, the frieze will hang around the entire internal circumference of the Yurt (we hope).

We need your signature and support to help us with our appeal to the Planning Inspectorate. The Council has told us that the Yurt is of “poor design” and they have redlined a 15 acre area where the Yurt cannot be erected. In signing the petition you will be demonstrating your support for:

1. Fledgling business, rural diversification and the field to fork ethos
2. Bohemia in Bassetlaw!!
3. The telling of the world important Idle Valley story
4. The excellence of Yurt design - which been in operation for 3000 years
5. The excellence of the Yurt aesthetic – which is deemed acceptable in National Parks across England and Wales – but which is not deemed acceptable adjacent to Everton Conservation area.