Down on the Farm

Blaze Farm is a great place to take children, there is always plenty to see and the Hill Billy ice cream and the tea shop pleases young and old alike.

There is always a selection of farm animals on hand to pet, but you don’t lose sight of the fact that this is a working farm, which in my book is a big bonus, because I don’t think you have to move very far out of the countryside for kids to lose all concept of what food production and farming is all about  (they take school parties), so see it, feel it, smell it and eat it for the 360 sensory experience (did I mention the ginger ice cream?)

When it comes to touching the animals there are a few exceptions (which are clearly signposted!)

You can feed the birds

And around every corner it seems there is another cat (and there was a litter of kittens in the old shippon, but I didn’t have the heart to fire the camera flash in the gloaming.)

this cat got a bit hacked off with the noisy competition

Sheep, where are the sheep? You can’t have a farm without sheep (well not around here at any rate.)

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