See where your food comes from
guided farm tours 2008

Tour 1 – Sunday May 18
Organic & environmental farming
The Lewis family is well known to many in Ludlow. We shall take a tractor ride round their traditional farm where they rear sheep and Aberdeen Angus cattle and grow cereals. They have been fully organic for some years now, very successfully.
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After lunch on the farm we move to Nick Tilt’s LEAF farm outside Ashford Carbonel. This 319 acre farm with mixed crops and cattle, shows how careful (non-organic) farming practice can be combined with encouraging wildlife through maintenance of habitats. A cup of tea will be provided.
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Leave Ludlow 10.00 – Return 4.45 Adults £15, Child £10, Family £44 – Lunch included

Tour 2 – Sunday June 29
Organic dairy products & liqueurs
A repeat of this very popular tour. Tony and Barbara Norman’s farm near Pembridge has the world’s oldest herd of Hereford cattle. They have organic vegetables and dairy products, including their own cheeses. Tony will explain how wildlife conservation can accompany productive farming methods. A lunch will give visitors a chance to sample the farm’s products.
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After lunch the tour moves on to Monkhide Country Wines where “Digger” and Lorraine Digweed will demonstrate how they produce fruit wines and liqueurs. They will guide you through tasting their range. A cup of tea will be provided.
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Leave Ludlow 10.00 – Return 4.30 Adults £15, Child £10, Family £44 – Lunch included

Tour 3 – Saturday July 19
Highland cattle & icecream
This tour goes to Rhos Fiddle Wildlife Reserve where Trevor Wheeler and his family rear Highland Cattle and Hebridean sheep for conservation management. Trevor will take you on a tour of the farm where he grows organic root vegetables and to visit his sustainable holiday cottage, producing its own electricity and with many energy saving features. Lunch is based on the Wheeler’s own organic Highland beef.
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After lunch we go to Church Stoke where the Beddoes family run a flock of laying hens and a large herd of dairy cows which we will see milked. The milk is used to make icecreams (and sorbets) using only natural flavours. They will demonstrate the processes and allow us to sample.
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Leave Ludlow 10.00/Craven Arms 10.15, Return Craven Arms 4.30/Ludlow 4.45
Adults £15, Child £10, Family £44 – Lunch included

Tour 4 – Saturday August 30
Organic fruit & nuts, sausage making
This tour is in the Clee Hills. We start at Billy Auger’s farm where he grows a huge variety of soft and tree fruit and nuts. Ready in August should be raspberries, plums and apples. In other seasons there are most fruits and nuts, peaches, apricots and even olives and figs!
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After lunch we move on to Clair and Clive Gitten’s farm at Bagginswood, high in the hills, where they rear beef cattle, sheep and pigs. They do their own butchery and will demonstrate this and sausage making to us in their well-stocked farm shop.
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Leave Ludlow 10.00 – Return 4.45 Adults £15, Child £10, Family £44 – Lunch included

Tour 5 – Sunday September 21
Goats and geese
A visit to two farms just over the Worcestershire border. First, Mar Goats, a pedigree flock farmed by John Jenkin and Margaret Mar at Great Witley. They also have cattle, Welsh Black Mountain sheep, ducks, hens and free-range pigs running in 10 acres of mixed woodland. Goat’s milk and their own meats are available from their farm shop.
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After lunch we move on to Goodman’s Geese (as featured on Jamie Oliver’s At Home Christmas Special) It is a family run farm in the Abberley Hills where Judy will show us their extensive flocks of free-range geese and turkeys. She will explain the goose year, from egg to Christmas dinner, with a look at the by-products.
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Leave Ludlow 10.00, Return 4.45 Adults £15, Child £10, Family £44 – Lunch included

Tour 6 – Sunday October 5
Family farm & fruit juices
Grove Farm is a small mixed family farm near Leominster. There are lambs, cattle, ducks and hens to see, an orchard and old cider mill. Fiona and Tim Bunting will take you round the farm and provide lunch using their own meat. They have converted farm buildings into a farm shop, café and bed & breakfast accommodation.
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In the afternoon we move to Tickmore at Brimfield, where Ruth and Judith produce a large range of apple juices. They will demonstrate apple-pressing and allow us to sample some of their blends of ancient named varieties of apple juices. They keep domestic hens and a flock of Ryeland sheep, which graze the wild flower meadows.
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Leave Ludlow 10.00, Return 4.30 Adults £15, Child £10, Family £44 – Lunch included

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These tours are organised by Ludlow 21 Food and Farming Group

Below are some pictures from last year’s Farmtours