Chamel Fields, home to 'Adopt a Horse Holidays' offers a family friendly farm experience with opportunities for guests to care for a miniature horse of their choice during their stay, and to get involved in the activities of farm life as they wish, including feeding all the animals, cuddling pet roosters and taking themselves for carriage rides with a human or horse substitute. The farm also runs Dexter cattle, which love carob beans. There are chickens, bantams, a pet pig who taught herself to sit, a mini-donkey, and one friendly dog, Debut, a Papillon who likes to lick.
Chamel Fields is an organic farm on 30 acres, with accommodation in a spacious, newly converted wooden barn that can sleep up to 13, making it an ideal setting for a family reunion or conference.
The Heysen Trail runs along the ridge, crossing the road through Kuitpo Forest. The Vales winery district is 15 minutes away, as is McLaren Vale, with many quality restaurant choices. Victor Harbor tourist area is forty minutes south, and beaches are 20 minutes west.
The highlight for most families is the opportunity for lots of hands-on experiences with the animals and birds. Many families return again to revisit their 'adopted' horses.
'This is the best day of my life so far,' one young guest wrote in the guest book.
