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#242 - Hospitality Meets Caitlin Owens - Regenerative Hospitality
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- Feb 11, 2026
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Summary
Building a Regenerative Farm Stay This week on Hospitality Meets , Phil sits down with Caitlin Owens , Managing Director and co-owner of Fowlescombe Farm , a luxury farm stay in Devon built on regenerative farming principles. What started as a family meat farm became a pub What started as a consulting career became a hospitality adventure. What started as “how hard can it be?” became… chlorine spraying out of beer lines. This episode is about naivety, chaos, regenerative farming, and why hospitality might just be the most beautifully human industry of them all. In This Episode Quitting consultancy during lockdown to learn hospitality in Switzerland Running a pub during the wild summer of 2021 The science (and danger) of cleaning beer lines Why hospitality operates permanently on the edge of chaos What consulting really taught her (hint: it’s not insurance maths) Bringing regenerative farming into luxury hospitality Why “low choice, high quality” beats endless options The rise of the farm stay experience Describing humanity to a Martian (yes, really) From Farm to Fork, For Real Fowlscombe isn’t just “farm to table” as a marketing line The farm is regenerative The soil health is measured Animals fertilise the land naturally Monoculture is avoided The hospitality exists because of the land, not the other way around Chaos, Sheep & Beer Showers Running the family pub (The Millbrook) during post-lockdown mania meant: Chlorine explosions in the cellar Smelling permanently of ale A sheep on a lead turning up for the village nativity A horse tied to the drainpipe while the chef fed it carrots Skills from “Outside” Hospitality Caitlin didn’t climb the traditional hospitality ladder. Her background in consultancy gave her: Structured thinking Clear communication Confidence wi…