Every day the farm is open. Free with your ticket, no need to book.
Six reindeer live in the paddock at the end of the lit track: Holly, Bracken, Juniper, Flint, Sorrel and young Pip, who was born here last May. Both males and females grow antlers, and they shed and regrow them every year.
You meet and feed the herd as part of every Winter at the farm visit. In summer they move to the cool shade of the wood paddock.
Start here. These are the animals who most enjoy company.
Our goats are the first to greet you and the last to let you leave. There are fourteen of them, led by Clover, who has worked out how to open two kinds of gate. Buy a bag of feed at the gate and hold your hand flat.
Kids are born in spring and are climbing the log pile within a week.
Biscuit and Conker are both under ten hands tall and both convinced they run the farm. They live out in the paddock in summer and come into the stables for winter, where you can help with grooming each afternoon.
A Shetland’s winter coat has two layers and sheds rain like a thatched roof.
Follow the green waymarks from the yard. The full loop is about a mile on firm paths and takes most families an hour.
The top field
A flock of forty ewes, mostly Texel crosses, with lambs from early spring. Come at lambing time and you may see one born.
A ewe knows her own lamb by its call within hours.
The orchard paddock
Bramble is 19 and lives with her friend Mabel. She likes ear rubs, ginger biscuits and being told she is right.
Donkeys can hear each other from across a valley.
The pig yard
Pickle, Chutney and Mustard spend their mornings rooting and their afternoons asleep. They will roll over for a back scratch.
Pigs wallow in mud because they cannot sweat.
The long paddock
Ghost and Rusty came to guard the hens from foxes and stayed for the attention. They hum when they are curious.
Alpaca fleece is sheared once a year, in early summer.
The far meadow
Morag and her small fold graze the wet meadow by the stream. They are gentle, slow and very good at standing in the way.
That fringe keeps flies and rain out of their eyes.
Everywhere
About thirty hens roam the yard by day. Their eggs go straight to the café kitchen, and what is left is sold at the gate.
A hen takes a dust bath most days to keep her feathers clean.
The small animal barn
Sit on a straw bale and one of the team will bring a guinea pig to your lap. Quiet voices and gentle hands, please.
Guinea pigs make a happy squeak called wheeking at feeding time.
They live here and we are their guests. Four small things keep them well and keep your family safe.
There are sinks with warm water and soap by the yard, the small animal barn and the café. Please use them after touching animals and before eating.
Our feed bags and carrot sticks are weighed out for the goats, sheep, ponies and reindeer. Food from home, however kind, can make an animal ill.
Walk in the yard, keep voices low in the barns and let an animal come to you. If one walks away, it has had enough.
Everyone in a green jacket knows the animals by name and loves a question. They will show small hands how to feed and stroke.
Winter at the farm runs from 28 November to 23 December 2026. Choose your date and start time and book without leaving this website.