Here’s a shout-out for the local Open Farm Sunday events happening in Shropshire and nearby Cheshire on June 8th, 2025!
It sounds like a fantastic opportunity to explore local farms, learn about food production, and enjoy some rural activities.
Soulton has participated in this event before but we are not running an event in 2025.
A view of some farm land
Battlefield 1403 Farm Shop Limited
- Address: Upper Battlefield, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY4 3DB
- Date: 8th June 2025
- Time: 10am – 4pm
- Cost: Free
- Activities: This event promises a lot to see and do for families! Look forward to:
- Shropshire Wildlife Trust
- Bee-Class Education
- Shropshire Young Farmers
- Wrekin Forest School (offering forest school fun with simple woodwork, whittling, dream catchers, craft activities, shelter building, flint & steel fire lighting, and marshmallows for roasting!)
- Rural Police Unit
- Face Painting
- The Corbett Household Medieval re-enactment group
- Ride-on Tractors
- Battlefield Bird of Prey Centre
- Shropshire Brass Ensemble
- Garden Games
- BBQ
- Contact: 01939210905
- Website: Link
Oteley Estate
- Address: Oteley, Ellesmere, Shropshire, SY12 0PB
- Date: 8th June 2025
- Time: 10am to 4pm
- Booking Details: Free entry, but please register in advance at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-farm-sunday-tickets-1381733354659?aff=oddtdtcreator. Other charges may apply for certain activities.
- Activities: Get a glimpse into how food is produced and learn about environmental management on this 2,000-acre historic farming estate. You can expect to see:
- Beef Shorthorn and Highland cattle, sheep, and pigs.
- Farm machinery up close.
- Local businesses, including Frontier, who market grain.
- Refreshments, stalls, and a farm shop selling homegrown produce.
- The estate’s 10 acres of private gardens will also be open to explore (garden entry £6 for adults, free for children).
- Contact: 01691622862
- Website: Link
Future Farm, Harper Adams University
- Address: Harper Adams University, Shropshire, TF10 8NB
- Date: 8th June 2025
- Time: 11:00am – 3:30pm
- Booking Details: Booking is not essential, but it helps indicate numbers: https://www.trybooking.com/uk/ELNY
- Cost: Free
- Activities: Discover the future of farming at this university farm! Activities include:
- Farm walk (bring wellies!)
- Meet the animals
- Machinery displays
- Games & activities
- Farm produce
- Demos including milking (12:30-3pm), sheep shearing (1pm), and feeding calves (3pm).
- Talks on Beef and Sheep, Crops, Smart Dairy, and Pigs (12:30pm & 2:30pm).
- Children’s activity pack with farm bingo and colouring.
- Self-guided walks to talk with staff.
- Play Paddock activities including herding sheep (with balloons) and milking a cow.
- Farm drawing board, planting station, and matching signs.
- Contact: 01952815362
- Website: Link
Home Farm
- Address: Attingham, Atcham, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY4 4TN, United Kingdom
- Date: 8th June 2025
- Time: 10am until 5pm
- Cost: Free
- Activities: Home Farm is a traditional working family farm that welcomes visitors. You can expect to:
- Get up close to traditional farm animals including cows, goats, ducks, geese, sheep, rabbits, chickens, miniature Shetland ponies, and donkeys.
- See baby animals (in spring) and potentially participate in bottle feeding lambs and goat kids (usually included in entry fee, and this event is free).
- Enjoy outdoor play and nature areas.
- Make “seed bombs” and play a “fruit and vegetable guessing game”.
- Create 3D animals (like pigs) and tag a calf.
- Learn about felt making with wool.
- Visit the café for homemade cake.
- Contact: 01743 709243
- Website: Link
Babbinswood Farm
- Address: Berghill Lane, Whittington, Oswestry, Shropshire, SY114PF, United Kingdom
- Date: 8th June 2025
- Time: 12pm – 5pm
- Booking Details: https://www.trybooking.com/uk/EVRI, info@babbinswoodfarm.co.uk, 07769607404
- Cost: Free
- Activities: This organic farm is showcasing its “unusual” cow and calf dairy unit, where calves are kept with their mothers until naturally weaned.
- Hands-on educational activities.
- Learn about life on a working organic farm.
- Members of Babbinswood Farm Community Benefit Society will be on hand to discuss their community ownership campaign to safeguard the organic land and the cow and calf dairy.
- The event is dog and child-friendly.
- Contact: 07769607404
- Website: Link
Reaseheath College
- Address: Nantwich, Cheshire, CW5 6DF
- Date: 8th June 2025
- Time: 11am to 4pm
- Booking Details: Free entry, but other charges apply. Register at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-farm-sunday-tickets-1283940473519
- Activities: This college farm offers a wide range of activities and insights into modern farming:
- Tractor rides.
- Meet farm animals: cows, sheep, pigs, and more.
- Cooking demonstrations using ingredients from their “Farm to Fork” project.
- Taste Reaseheath beef burgers and other free samples.
- “Hunger Hut” food outlet open.
- Reaseheath Produce: cakes, cheese, and local produce available to buy.
- Farm talks and Q&A with expert agricultural staff.
- Family fun activities.
- Discover farming innovations, including Lely Robotic Milking Systems and Lely Vector Automatic Feeding Systems (watch robots in action!).
- Their College Zoo will also be open (zoo entry is payable, but kids go free with any paying adult who attends the farm event).
- Contact: 01270613211
- Website: Link
Enjoy your Open Farm Sunday in Shropshire and Cheshire!
Harvest time comes to the AS YOU LIKE IT landscape at Soulton Hall
