From Our Farm, to Your Table

Mon 8th June 2026
Weston, Spalding

A day to connect schools, farmers and the local community — helping children understand where their food comes from, who grows it, and why our countryside matters. Free to attend, priceless to experience.

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Bringing over 800 year six students to the countryside

First held in 2007, Farming and Countryside Day was created by Robert and Sue Oldershaw to help children understand where food comes from. It returns in 2026 to inspire a new generation with farming, food, and life on the land.

Our Story

Why visit our farm?

Expert Talks

Inspiring talks from experts in their field

Experts from across agriculture and the countryside will deliver engaging, age-appropriate talks throughout the day — from crop growing to animal care, sustainability and machinery — giving pupils a real insight into life, work, and innovation on the land.

Experience the Farm

Growing Together: Evolution and Expansion

Pupils will get hands-on with a range of activities — planting seeds, digging potatoes, watching live sheep shearing, and enjoying a tractor and trailer ride around the farm — bringing the world of food and farming vividly to life.

What It Takes to Make It Happen

800
Year 6 Students
25+
Exhibitors
70+
Event Stewards
Our Harvest

Exhibitors

The day would be nothing without our supporters and exhibitors. These carefully selected group of people and companies all have links to the agricultural industry and will be on hand throughout the day giving short talks to the pupils.

Grimme UK

GRIMME UK is the British sales and service subsidiary of the German-based GRIMME Group, a world leader in agricultural technology for potato, beet, and vegetable crops. Established in November 1993, the company is headquartered in Swineshead, Lincolnshire, and serves as the primary support hub for a nationwide dealer network across the UK mainland.

JB Taylor Construction

JB Taylor Construction LTD is a family-run construction company based in Orby, near Skegness, United Kingdom. Established in 1997, the company specialises in the design, fabrication, and erection of industrial and agricultural buildings.

Allium Seeds

Get the inside scoop on onions! Allium Seeds shares how different onion varieties are bred and grown to suit farms, climates, and customers across the UK.

Naylors Flowers

We are a family flower business growing a range of crops including trumpet and poeticus daffodils, alliums, sweet williams, peonies, delphiniums, larkspur, alchemilla, eryngium, sedum, agapanthus, carthamus and ornamental brassica in the flat fenlands at Holbeach Marsh.

Elsom Seeds

Discover how new crop varieties are developed, tested, and grown. Elsom Seeds’ experts will showcase the science and innovation behind the seeds that feed the nation.

Hutchinsons

H L Hutchinson Ltd (commonly known as Hutchinsons) is a leading UK agricultural and horticultural advice and supply company. Founded in 1938 and based in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, it remains a family-owned business with a national reach, supporting farmers across more than one million hectares of UK farmland.

Jack Buck Farms

Jack Buck Farms is a progressive, 150-year-old family farming business based in Moulton Seas End, Lincolnshire. They are specialists in arable farming and are particularly famous for being the UK’s largest producer of celeriac

Frontier

Frontier Agriculture is the UK’s leading crop production and grain marketing business, providing seeds, fertilizers, and crop protection products to farmers. They offer expert, nationwide agronomy advice and digital tools (MyFarm) to support sustainable farming. The company connects farmers with grain consumers and specialises in precision, environmental, and agricultural technology solutions.

National Farmers Union

The National Farmers' Union (NFU) is the primary lobbying body and professional association for farming businesses in England and Wales. It acts as the industry's political voice, campaigning at governmental levels for fair trade deals, sustainable food standards, and rural infrastructure.

Chandlers Farm Equipment

Chandlers (Farm Equipment) Ltd is a family-owned agricultural dealership and one of the largest AGCO dealers in the UK. Established in 1935, the company provides a wide range of machinery, parts, and services to the farming, horticultural, and groundscare industries.

Fenmarc

Over 300 people work at Fenmarc in their modern factory, developing, preparing and packing a wide range of quality prepared vegetable and stir fry products, so they arrive in stores swiftly and smoothly.

Bee Keeping

Beekeeping is a critical pillar of both the countryside and the economy, providing essential ecological services that sustain biodiversity and food security. While honey is the most visible product, the true value of beekeeping lies in pollination, which ensures the reproduction of plants and crops.

Grow Your Own Potatoes

Grow Your Own Potatoes (GYOP) is a major UK-based educational project designed to teach primary school children about food origins, healthy eating, and science through hands-on gardening.

NerG

Explore how solar power supports modern farming. NERG will show how farms harness the sun’s energy to reduce costs, cut emissions, and power rural communities.

Fishing

Fishing demonstration in our natural pond.

LEAF

LEAF Education works to inspire and educate future generations about where their food comes from and the importance of sustainable farming. They act as the primary bridge between the agricultural industry and the school system.

National Centre for Food Manufacturing

The National Centre for Food Manufacturing (NCFM) is a satellite campus of the University of Lincoln located in Holbeach, South Lincolnshire. It serves as a major hub for the UK’s food manufacturing sector, providing specialist education, research, and technical consultancy to help the industry innovate and grow.

Holbeach & District Wildfowlers

The Holbeach & District Wildfowlers Association (HDWA) is a long-standing organization (founded in 1953) dedicated to the sustainable pursuit of wildfowl and the conservation of the marshlands around The Wash in Lincolnshire.

Livestock

Explore the art and science of animal management. Our display features premier sheep and cattle, highlighting modern standards in nutrition, welfare, and breeding. See firsthand the practices that drive our agricultural community.

Ben Burgess

Ben Burgess is primarily a well-established, family-owned British agricultural, construction, and grounds care machinery dealer founded in 1931. Based in East Anglia and the East Midlands with 11 branches, they are one of the UK’s original John Deere dealers (since 1963) and also sell machinery from brands like Grimme, Manitou, and Hitachi.

A H Worth

Find out how one of the UK’s leading food businesses grows, packs, and supplies vegetables — from field to fork — with care, scale, and cutting-edge technology.

Benefits

The Benefits of being involved

Real World Learning

Curriculum Enrichment

Career Inspiration

Connection to Nature

Memorable Experience

Free, safe and organised

Interested in Your school attending?

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Places are limited will be allocated on a first come first served basis. We will also prioritise those schools within a 15 mile radius of Weston, Lincolnshire.  

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