Overbury Farms News

On the beautifully sunny evening of  Thursday 12th May, some of our new tenants and staff were treated to an evening with Paul, Head Gamekeeper here at Overbury. The tractor (driven by the lovely Graham) towed the trailer load of us down to the Hatchery. Here, Paul showed us how the pheasant and partridge are bred on the Estate, right...

Sunday (3rd April 2016) saw hundreds of people ‘flocking’ to Overbury to see the lambs at our Lambing Live 2016 event. Over 600 people came and enjoyed a tractor and trailer ride up to our lambing sheds where they met the ewes, their new arrivals and our Shepherd Reg and the team.   There were talks from the Warreners, a...

Overbury Farms Lambing Live event took place on Sunday 19th April 2015.  It was a chilly but dry day and the car park soon filled up.           The tractor and trailer rides proved very popular and made trip after trip up to the lambing sheds.       Some lucky visitors got to see a lamb being born.  At...

A rather cold and windy day greeted the school children from Wychall School in Birmingham as they visited the farm today.  However after the forecast on Friday we managed to stay outside all day, which was a bonus.  The children started off being split into 4 groups, the first looking at the vegetables being grown in the kitchen garden.  There...

  On Thursday 15th May, Head Keeper Paul Gillett took a trailer full of tenants around the Overbury Farms hatchery.     After the success of last year residents were once again invited to come along and join us for a hatchery tour - with the weather much improved to 2013! Paul took us through the the hatching process, from egg...

Our annual lambing live day took place this year on Sunday 13th April 2014. With the sun shining (very unlike last year) and volunteers at the ready, we opened our doors at 10 am.       What a wonderful day we had. Over 850 adults and children came to visit our lambing sheds over the course of the day. We had two tractor and...

Whilst we are gearing up for our 2014 Lambing Live Day we are thrilled to announce the arrival of our first lamb of the season.       She arrived a little earlier than expected, 4 weeks to be exact! Our shepherdess found her early yesterday morning in the lambing sheds. No one is quite sure how she has arrived so early, but on...

We've started taking bookings for the always-popular tours we conduct as part of Open Farm Sunday (this year on Sunday 17th June). Jake Freestone, Farm Manager, and Penelope Bossom, Owner of Overbury Farms, will be conducting the tours, giving you an opportunity to gain considerable insight into the management of the farm as you tour around the...