Tuesday 3 April 2012

Lambing Live 2012


Well, our feet have finally touched the ground after the second year of lambing live at Greenwell Farm. Once again it was a fantastic success with over 300 general public and numerous schools and children’s groups coming to see us. Mum worked really hard pulling it all together and it was very well received. We had approx 50 visitors per night who were given a guided tour of our lambing shed including a breakdown of what we do on a modern beef and sheep hill farm. They then had the opportunity to wander around the shed where they could observe the lambing ewes and cuddle the lambs and ask lots of questions! The children loved bottle feeding our tame orphaned lambs and (luckily!) on most nights we managed to see a live birth. We had several volunteers who gave up their time to help and we would like to take this opportunity to thank you all. Dartmoor Farmers did the catering and Mat was very pleased to be eating beef every night, however I am not sure Gemma approved and he is now on a strict salad diet!

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