Overbury Farms Events
2012 Events at Overbury
On Sunday 15th April we will be hosting our annual Lambing Day where the public can see our lambing flock. See the YouTube video below on last year’s event. Since Open Farm Sunday began we have opened the farm to the public in conjunction with LEAF’s national initiative & in 2012 it will be on Sunday 17th June.
Past Events
Exciting events that we have previously hosted…
2011 Events
Despite miserable weather brave families donned their wellies and waterproofs to support us at Open Farm Sunday 2011 – thank you to everyone who turned out and we hope you all enjoyed your visit! Our Lambing Day 2011 was a great success. Our Facebook box of local goodies draw (of over 100 fans) was drawn & won by Oliver Mayer from London. The feedback form draw Half Lamb was won by Lesley O-P from Tewkesbury. Our photos are on our Facebook Page Album
2010 Events
We very much enjoyed our Open Farm Sunday 2010. The young Phillips family showed off their ducks & chickens and we returned to our free bookable trailer rides. Every farm involved in Open Farm Sunday puts on a unique and individual event. You get a real insight into how food is produced and the nature that thrives in the hedgerows. You’ll find a whole host of activities across the country, from tractor and trailer rides to pig-racing, a gentle farm walk and cup of tea to a full-on vegetable olympics! We are only one of many farms opening our gates so if you have enjoyed visiting Overbury why not find out from the Open Farm Sunday Website what the other farms you are able to visit are doing.
Lambing Day – 11th April 2010 saw a record turn out of over 650 people – we were delighted to see so many of you and thank you to everyone for being patient whilst we called in a second tractor, trailer and driver in order to cope with getting everyone up to Park Farm to see the lambing. The sun shone and although a little bit nippy a great day was had by all. See what happened by going to the Chairman of Wychavon’s blog. Andy Dyke & his family took lots if photographs while enjoying their day.
2009 Events
Open Farm Sunday went well, thank you to everyone who braved the early rain storms and donned their wellies! We were treated to falconry and ferret racing by Bob Edwards and his team (www.falconry-days.com), a hog roast from Meadow’s Farm Shop (www.meadowshomefarm.co.uk), tractor and trailer rides, James & Harry with their “chucks an ducks”, strawberries & cream and cakes from the Friends of Overbury First School and much more.
2008 Events
Lambing day went well despite the rain…fingers crossed for some sunshine next year! Open Farm Sunday was blessed with better weather and our tractor rides were full to the brim. Children and adults alike enjoyed the “hands-free” tractor demonstrated by Chris Tallis Farm Machinery and a fair few ice-creams were devoured too.
2007 Events
Our lambing day took place on Sunday 15th April. Over 350 people enjoyed a tractor ride up the hill to Park Farm to see our lambing sheds in action.
Feedback included: “Excellent day out, especially for children!! – very informative and ”hands on”, “lovely day, my 3 yr old son really enjoyed himself” “The whole day was lovely, the highlight being holding the lambs! They were very cute, we all liked Pickle the dog”
We have also had a Countryside Foundation for Education day for over 200 schools children & their teachers as well as opening for Open Farm Sunday.
2006 Events
We celebrated British Food Fortnight at the Vale of Evesham Food Festival and local schools took part in a food map competition. Our lamb was sold on the LEAF stand at the Royal Show and the Overbury Street Market on Sat 8th July.
We were involved in several open days including Farm Sunday. Our village schools had several visits seeing hay making, lambing and shearing.
There were harvest visits for local children. Our Oat harvest was filmed. To watch it follow the Country Channel links (below & also with the logo) followed by “Watch now” and navigate the scroll bar to “Getting your oats” www.countrychannel.tv
We enjoy taking local schools to see a variety of things over the farming year.
Keep updated on what is happening here by reading Jake’s blog
Farmer Jake’s YouTube Channel FarmerJakeNo1 hosts a variety of short films. Below is one on 2012 Open Lambing or “Lambing Live” day.
