Visit a farm near you this Sunday, 13th June!
Posted on 12/06/10
Get in touch with the land that feeds us: Open Farm Sunday invites us to meet the farmers who grow our food and care for the countryside.
If you’ve every wondered what goes on behind that hedge, or in that farmyard, Open Farm Sunday is your chance to find out. Farms throughout the UK will be open for a variety of tours, tastings and other family friendly activities to show us just what it means to be a farmer today. Entry to the majority of farms is free.
Like The Old Dairy East Sussex many Open Days offer the opportunity to meet the animals, take a farm walk, inspect the farm machinery, watch demonstrations such as sheep sheering and tuck into delicious foods produced right there on the farm.
Open Farm Sunday at Shabden Park Farm
Open Farm Sunday is also the chance to learn more about farmers’ care of the countryside and environment. For example, the Open Day at King’s Manor Farm at Freshwater on the Isle of Wight, introduces visitors to one of the most exciting environmental schemes on the south coast of England.
Organic farming and food production are explained at Elm Farm, near Newbury, home of The Organic Research Centre while at Shabden Park Estate, at Chipstead , the Surrey Wildlife Trust are leading a walk at to show how farming practices adopted there are benefiting the wildlife.
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