Public welcomed back for farm’s lambing season
A popular farm is open for lambing season after two years of disruption.
Church Farm, Coombes, is fully open after the coronavirus pandemic forced it to close in 2020 and open partially last year.
Farmer Jenny Passmore, fourth-generation owner of the farm, said: “It has been so lovely seeing everyone come back to the farm. It’s like welcoming back old friends.”
The farm, which has been the Passmore family since 1901, has reintroduced its tractor rides and there are plenty of newborn lambs for visitors to see.
Jenny said: “We are always busy around lambing season, its our busiest time of year with all the lambs being born, so that side is going really well.
“We have had lots of lambs arriving and we have had our third set of quads, which was great.”
Jenny added seeing people enjoying all the facilities the farm has to offer again was ‘fantastic’.
The farm has also announced two new activities visitors can take part in – a forest walk and adult ‘lamb yoga’, run by Jenny’s daughter, Pam Peacock, who also oversees the late-night lambing at the farm.
Pam, 30, who is a physiotherapist by trade, said she wanted to start lamb yoga to relax people after Covid.
She added: “I thought it would be great to get people up and moving after the two years we’ve all had.
“I done some research and I found out that animals can reduce your stress levels by 20 per cent, and yoga is relaxing, too, so I thought I’d combine the two”
The adult lamb yoga runs on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 7pm to 8pm until April 24, and is for over 18s only.
Pam’s late-night lambing sessions run from 8pm until 10pm, also adults-only, and people can see the lambs and feed them.
Late-night lambing and lamb yoga can be booked via Pam’s website, latenightlambing.co.uk, and visits to the farm can be booked at coombes.co.uk