Visit a farm for free in June!
Every year on the nearest Sunday to the 9th June, hundreds of working UK farms open their gates to the public free of charge, for Open Farm Sunday, giving everyone the chance to discover real farming at first hand.
It’s a brilliant opportunity to take the kids to see real farming in action, to meet the people who work on the land, see animals and farm machinery up close and gain more of an understanding of the role of farming in all our lives. Especially at the moment when farming is so much under threat.
I firmly believe that every primary school should organise an annual farm visit for the Year 4, 5 or 6 pupils so that every child has had the opportunity to experience where our food comes from and how, and to understand the connect between people and land, food and farmers, nature and health.
This brilliant endeavour ensures that if your child’s school doesn’t provide a farm visit, or if you home educate, there is an opportunity for everyone to see farm life in action.
Reasons to visit a working farm?
- Find out what it means to be a farmer
- Learn the story of food and food production
- Find out about countryside management
- Discover how farming affects our lives
- Find out what really happens on a farm
- Experience machinery displays, tractor and trailer rides, demonstrations, nature walks and more, dependent on what your local farm has to offer.
Plan your visit
Click the link below to find the nearest open farm to you.
Find your local farm – Open Farm Sunday
Over 1000 farms have opened to the public since 2006! Open Farm Sunday is managed by Linking Environment and Farming (LEAF)
Wild wishes for lots of animal magic on your free farm visits this June
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Such a great initiative. There is so much to learn about life on a farm and with a farm day visit like this it can make learning fun in the best possible way enjoying the outdoors. Some of those big tractors put our little ones to shame!
Thank you for sharing on #CountryKids
I’d not heard of it before, really great to help people get more understanding of the farming/country community
This is such a great idea…A perfect way for children to learn about working farms. #CountryKids
Thank you for reminding me!!! We loved our visit last year, I’m off to investigate our options now #CountryKids
Great, we’ll be finding somewhere local too
I’m going to mark this in my diary to make sure we go this year we’ve done it before and it is fab but often I forget. Thanks, Mich x #Countrykids
Glad to have provided a reminder. Looking forward to going for the first time this year
Glad to have provided the reminder! We’re going for the first time this year
I think its great and so much hard work goes into farms so its a good thing for children to learn about. #CountryKids
I agree, our farmers need all the support they can get and it’s great for us to see how things are done. Thanks for popping by
Oooh I missed this last year! Thanks for the – will check out the ones near us!
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We’ll be heading to a local one too. Looking forward to it
Love the sound of this. Educating our children that food comes from a variety of places not just the supermarket shelves #CountryKids
I agree, it’s such a great idea
We did this today and we loved it so much
It’s such a great initiative to get people finding out about life on the farm. Glad you had fun, it looked like a lovely day.