NICK and Ruth Strange held a very successful open day at their Beech Hayes Farm yesterday, which allowed an opportunity for Julia and I to take our son George to see exactly where his bacon comes from.Nick is Churchstanton's parish council chairman and Julia has been buying a meat box from the farm via the food co-operative which runs at the Rockwell Green Christian Centre.
So it was really interesting to have a look around and to show George the source of the meat he eats.
There was lots to see - and lots of other people went along as well, so I would guess Nick and Ruth must have been really pleased with the way it went.
George tried his hand at duck and geese herding - as you can see from the photo above - that is, until the geese started herding him instead!
We saw the Gloucester old spot pigs which they are well-known for, and the lambs, ducks, new-born chicks - some of which were hatching in front of George's eyes.
No, we didn't manage to do the quiz in full, despite cribbing one of the answers from another visitor.
I thought I knew my beech leaves from my ash leaves and so on, but when put to the test I failed miserably.
Ross Henley, our local county councillor, gave a nice speech to visitors about the importance of local produce and the need to support local producers.
Our only disappointment was not having more time to spend on the farm, as we were due to do a car boot sale in the afternoon as we continue to try to slim down the stack of bits and bobs in our attic.
As it turned out, the car boot sale did not do too well - or, at least, our bit of it didn't, as we only raised just about enough to put the Mazda through the car wash.
