Old Macdonald is thrilled to report that we have won the East of England Tourist Board’s award for Excellence for Sustainable Tourism, beating many other attractions right across the area, and have now been entered by the Tourist Board in the National Awards to be decided later this year. He sent Sindy and Joseph Manning along to the presentation night, and you can see them above accepting the award from famous travel writer Simon Calder. The award was given for our innovative work in educating and encouraging visitors, and in particular young visitors, to care for the environment and we are very proud of what we have achieved.

You can join our mailing list and receive special offers when you visit the farm during the festive season, so read on for more news and how to join. (more…)

 At Halloween we had to put our Farm Train on a Skeleton Service, and as you can see Kaitlyn Cottrill and her family, who won a Halloween Party Prize for herself and her friends from the Essex Chronicle Newspaper Group during the summer, risked our ghastly and ghostly crew as they rode around the farm. Now you can plan to hurry down to see us as we limber up for Santa’s visit at Xmas.

Obviously the main reason you want to visit our farm is to see our wonderful range of animals and birds, plus to enjoy a stroll in the Essex Countryside. However we have noticed that from time to time it rains a little, and gets a bit nippy, so Old Macdonald has spent a lot of time, considerable thought and oodles of cash on providing some indoor fun for the family too! First of all, our new barn battles opened on October 18th and as you can see is great fun! Come and test this out as it is all part of our entry fee. (more…)