The Marsh family Andrew, Hilary and their four daughters Alexandra, Alycia, Eléonore and Hannah have lived at La Vergne 16450 Grand Madieu since  December 1998. They moved from their family run dairy farm in Newport, Shropshire, England, to take up a new challenge of a dairy farm in Charente, France.

La Vergne comprises of our farmhouse,  102 hectares of land,  12 hectares of woodland, three houses, and an assortment of traditional barns. In 2005 we changed one of our gites into a fromagerie and farm shop. In 2007 we extended the business to include a new kitchen to allow us to make hand made cakes and sausages. During the summer of 2007 we opened The Salon de Thé.