Discover Sheepdrove

Call 01488 674737 and ask us about booking your visit.

Sheepdrove’s Farm Tours

Seeing is believing, and thousands of people have been inspired by Sheepdrove Organic Farm and Sheepdrove Eco Conference Centre over the years, whether at our Open Day events or with an organised group booking.

Our well-known Farm Tours are popular with conference organisers. Tours fit well into the day's schedule and the experience refreshes delegates with an outdoor experience and a chance to chat. A perfect after-lunch activity!

Sheepdrove has its own purpose-built passenger trailers, roofed to shelter you from rain and fitted with comfortable seating. Wrap up warm, and look out for Skylarks and Red Kites as you discover Sheepdrove and the Berkshire Downs landscape!

Awareness Days and Workshops

We often host awareness days, workshops, and training courses, for a wide range of groups, and not just those interested in the organic sector. We have welcomed cooks, architects, gardeners, supermarket buyers, overseas retailers, the Environment Agency, Defra and many others.

Colleges and Universities

Tours are also great for educational groups because we can tailor it to cover the topics that you want to explore.

It’s not only agriculture students who come here, we can help students of many subjects to grasp countryside-related issues. Sheepdrove has hosted educational visits for courses such as Business Studies, Applied Sciences, and Geography. PhD students and MSc students are welcome to focus their projects on Sheepdrove, especially those related to organic production, sustainability or biodiversity.

With all our research we work closely with Elm Farm Research Centre, so please contact them at http://www.efrc.com or call our farm office on 01488 674700 to discuss ideas.

Schools

While we develop our new farm education service for schools, we are gathering a list of those schools who wish to come here in future. Simply go to the contact us page to tell us you are interested.

Sheepdrove Organic Farm is an ideal setting for young people to connect to the countryside. Aspects of farming, food, conservation and sustainability are all relevant to the National Curriculum, in topics like geography, science, art, maths, English language and citizenship. Everything from food webs and nutrient cycles to people and landscape can be covered.

Here is an example of how a food culture campaign made used our farm tours to inspire partners and make their event a day to remember.