🌾 Festival Programme 🌾

Join us for a day packed with traditional countryside skills, friendly competitions and family activities!

🕙 10:00am – 12:00pm
🌿 Have-a-go Scything – one-to-one help from experienced mowers

🕥 10:30am
🚶 Grazing Walk – Wander with a Warden

🕚 11:00am
🌼 Meadow Walk – Guided stroll with a botanist

🕛 12:00pm – 1:00pm
🎶 Live music from Button End Band

🕐 1:00pm
🏃 Hay Race

🕜 1:30pm
⚔️ Scythe vs Strimmer Race – return of the Grim Strimmer!

🕑 2:00pm
🏆 Competition!
Can you mow 5m² the fastest and be crowned champion? Last year’s winner cut a plot 5m x 5m in under two and a half minutes!

🕒 3:00pm
🤝 Team Relay Race

🕓 4:00pm
🏅 Prize-giving

🌿 Throughout the day:

• Green woodworking demonstrations with Cambridge Bodgers, making items from the wood that is a by-product from our Woodland Restoration Project
• Traditional craft demonstrations
• Craft activities in the stable rooms
• Farm machinery on display
• Scythe shop

We’d love to see you there for a fun day celebrating traditional haymaking! 🌾