Events – Summer farm tours

Come and meet us at one of our farm tours!

Places are limited to keep the group sizes small.

If you are coming with your partner, family members and friends, please book all adults as separate attendees so we know exactly how many people are coming. Note that the emails for all attendees shall be filled in so that the reminder is sent to them.

As the farms you’ll visit are working farms, they may contain many hazards. Your attendance is at your own risk.

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Cattle and pigs farm tour notes:

You’ll be walking across rough uneven terrain. This tour will involve at least 30 min of walking across fields (with potential cow pats) and into woodland where it may be wet. Please wear appropriate footware and long trousers – the woodland contains prickly brambles and hawthorn. If you or your children would like to enter the pig enclosure, we recommend long trousers and good boots.

Please no dogs – they may scare the farm animals. If you would like to bring your dog to explore the local footpaths, please keep it in the car for the duration of the farm tour.

Please note this is a working farm and as such contains many hazards. Your attendance is at your own risk.

Public footpaths – you are welcome to make a day out of it beyond the farm tour. There are many public footpaths leading from the farm, see picture below (the farm is Old Park Farm in the centre):

Public footpaths (pink dotted lines) leading across the farm (Old Park Fm)

Pastured chickens farm tour notes:

This tour will involve only short walk towards the chicken pen. Please do wear appropriate footware (trainers or boots) as it may get soiled by chicken droppings.

If you wish to enter the chicken pen to stroke chickens, long trousers are a must to protect your skin from sharp chickens’ beaks. Chickens use their beaks to explore new things, so your shoes and clothing may be very interesting to them.

Please no dogs – they pose a life threat to the birds, so it’s best to avoid a very stressful situation for the chickens.

The amount of feed and fertilizers per 1 beef animal

As a calf, it is fed 100 kg of feed in a creep feeder:
60 kg barley
14 kg soya
23.5 kg sugar beet

growing steer (for 100 days) ratio:
350 kg barley
30 kg rapeseed

finishing steer (for 80 days)
600 kg barley

TOTAL feed per steer:
1010 kg barley
30 kg rapeseed
14 kg soya
23.5 kg sugar beet

Source: AHDB

Pesticide figure based on yearly application of pesticides on barley in 2018 (based on application to 0.17 ha that would produce 1 tonne of barley):

spring and winter barley were mixed in equal ratio for simplicity.
Pesticides in spring barley:
157.5 g
Pesticides in winter barley:
307.5 g

TOTAL 465 g of pesticides = to litres it is about 465 ml of pesticides per year.

Source: Pesticides usage survey 284 for arable crops in the United Kingdom 2018 (National Statistics)

Fertilizer figure (based on application to 0.17 ha that would produce 1 tonne of barley):
nitrogen: 24.14 kg
phosphate: 4.59 kg
potash: 5.95 kg
sulfur: 5.95 kg


TOTAL 40.63 kg of fertilizers

Source: British survey of fertilizer practice for 2018 (DEFRA)