Sunday 23rd May – 9.15am to 5pm
Despite being only 20 miles from London, Redbourn is a rural community surrounded by farms, fields and natural beauty. Come and celebrate Redbourn’s rural and environmental heritage with tours of some of the local working farms to learn where our food comes from and see organic and satellite farming, tractor trailer rides, Morris dancing on the Common, St Luke’s School Nature Trail Quiz, a walk on the Nickey Line, ploughmans lunches at the Recreation Centre and the Ver Society Nature walk.
Finally, come and see our very own Watermill in action – the newly restored wheel will be turning, the millstones will be grinding organic flour, and the bread will be ready to eat!
SIGN UP ON THE COMMON FOR ONE HOUR VISITS
from 9.15am- opposite the Museum, visits begin from 10am: Mill from 11 am
Farms - tractor trailer rides
Hammonds End Farm - learn about organic farming with Howard & Ginny Roberts
Butlers Farm - see commercial farming using G.P.S. technology in conjunction with environmental schemes with Bill Barr
Redbournbury Watermill in action with Mandy James; delicious bread from the bakery – open 11am to 5pm: teas served, and Morris Dancing at 3pm
Redbournbury Farm – see the cattle, & walk through these special pastures
River Ver Nature Walk- discover, birds, butterflies, beetles – children’s discovery leaflet, with Podge Fox and Ernie Leahy (Ver Valley Society)
‘Go off the rails’- with Friends of the Nickey Line: explore the pre-railway landscape, evidence of Iron Age Earthworks. One hour walks at 11am or 3pm.
AT YOUR LEISURE VISIT
Ver Valley Society Exhibition at Redbournbury Farm
Redbourn Museum - Wildlife Art Exhibition by Redbourn Artist Ernest Leahy;
have a go at ‘Living Crafts’ in the museum garden. Open 10am – 5pm. Admission £2. Children £1.
St Luke’s School Nature Trail Quiz -discover these unusual and exciting school inhabitants .
Rothamsted Agricultural Research Institute Open Day leading in bio-science and sustainable food production
ON THE COMMON
Nature Trail -a new discovery walk for Children
Bug Safaris – 1.30pm and 3pm. What bugs live on your Common? Children come and find them!
Morris Dancers – The Wicket Brood – 12.30 & 2pm at the Cricketers Pub
Cricketers Pub BBQ
Information Tables including
St Albans Beekeepers Woodland Trust
Farm Africa Friends of the Nickey Line
Send a Cow R900 Merchandise
Nuffield Health
4pm Redbourn Churches join together for Pentecost Praise on North Common – followed by refreshments
Limited wheelchair access
Activities FREE: Donations to R900 expenses and Fund for the Future
i know what time is starts but where do we meet up
where are we meeting
This sounds great, and is coming up very soon. Does anyone have a timetable of events, where to meet up, etc.? Thanks, Andreas Kaempf
can someone tell me where we meet me and my dad want to go but we dont know where it starts (what place to go to)
ON RURAL DAY, SUNDAY 23RD MAY YOU SIGN UP FOR VISISTS ON REDBOURN COMMON, OPPOSITE THE MUSEUM WHICH IS NEXT TO THE CRICKETERS PUB, FROM 9.15AM.
FARM VISITS START AT 10AM, MILL VISITS AT 11AM
thanks a lot