Hadleigh Castle Rare Breeds Centre

Open Farm Sunday at The Salvation Army Hadleigh Farm Rare Breeds Centre

We are opening the Rare Breeds Centre for FREE entry on Open Farm Sunday. There will be talks throughout the day plus animal handling sessions and craft activities. We will also be shearing the sheep all day which can be viewed by all who attend. We are also hoping to have an artisan craft fair and classic car display, along with farming displays. Fleeces will also be available for purchase along with our usual farm merchandise and animal feed for sheep, goats and alpacas. About this farm: Hadleigh Farm is a roughly 900 acre site which was started in 1890 when William Booth bought three neighbouring farms with the aim of providing the unskilled and unemployed with the skills to find work. The farm is split into roughly 600 acres of arable land and 300 acres of grazing. The Rare Breed Centre is an open public farm that covers around 4 acres of the grazing land. The centres aim is to help conserve the UK's Rare Breed livestock through conservation and eduction. Highlights: Sheep; Pigs; Poultry; Other livestock; Environmental stewardship Other livestock: Goats