Gates Open Day
Posted on 8 Oct 2007
We had a wonderful Open Day on our farm as part of the Gates Open programme organised by the Highlands & Islands Food network on Saturday 6th October. Many local folk and further away visitors came to join us on a day full of activities. Our butchery demos on a home-grown Jacob X lamb were particularly successful – and so were the tastings afterwards!
Kids (and parents!) were naturally able to increase their knowledge as to what was happening on our farm and to get close to some of our sheep and cattle – Highland cattle are so photogenic!! And so was the old fully renovated MF35 (1958) tractor.
Other activities included an interesting Nature Trail, fly-fishing and clay-pigeon shooting. There was also a great opportunity to buy some lovely wildlife photos and obviously our fresh pure Highland Beef and Jacob X Lamb in our newly-fitted Farm Shop. Everyone is now welcome to pop up to the farm to buy our meats anytime, although we do advise strongly to ring us first on (01479) 870 341 to make sure there is somebody around (as the Shop is not staffed all the time).
Bill and I would like to take this opportunity to thank again all our friends without whom we could not have had this great day. Also a particular thank you to all our visitors, who, we hope, had a great day out. Thank you all!
All in all our Open Day was a great success and we are already planning for October 2008 – so watch our website!