The Open Farm Project

[Mirrie]

Hi all,

Its official- The open Farm Project has begun! I've got my land and we hope to open to the public next spring. The project is going to be a free attraction to teach children/teenagers where their food comes from, how to look after animals fairly, how to grow veg and be as self sufficient as possible.

I'm gathering volunteers to help with the work & fundraising, have got a great response from freecycle with people donating stuff to start us up, and we want to get as many children involved as we can.

Its a lot of work ahead of us but I'm totally excited and wanted to share my news!![attachment=0]BILD0030.JPG[/attachment]

[Percy]

Best wishes for the project. I'm afraid i am a fair jaunt from you to be able to give any physical help, but keep us updated and any assistance in the future i can give i will. To give youngsters this kind of education is a great idea.

[contadino]

Excellent news. Well done. We had similar aspirations when we came here, only to find the local kids know more about fruit & veg than we do.

[Mirrie]

Thanks for your replies guys- Just to let you know Ihave started up a yahoo group and put a link on there for this forum- I will be making regular updates @ the group & there more pic's if your interested:

Click here to join: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theopenfarmproject/join

The project is based at Stonham Barns in Suffolk- If your near let me know!

[Mirrie]

What do you think of the logo? (I know its a bit big!)

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