Get Involved
Experience life on the land through group visits to the farm. Our Experience Days are a fantastic way to learn more about food, farming and nature connection. Below is a guide to some of the opportunities we offer at the farm, we can be flexible in arranging days that fit your needs.
You can also combine Experience Days with venue hire in our beautiful roundhouse or yurt.
Thanks to our customer supported Community Fund, if you’re a small not-for-profit organisation working with underrepresented or disadvantaged groups, we can sometimes fund group placements to the farm free of charge. Get in touch with to find out more.
Farmer for a Day
Our popular ‘Farmer for a Day’ package aims to give groups the opportunity to find out where their food comes from, learn about organic growing and take part in farming activities. Groups can have a go at being farmers for half a day, a full day or for several days during the growing season (April-October).
Wildlife Ranger for a Day
Join us for a wildlife-focussed session, helping us to manage our land to create a biodiverse and nature-rich landscape. You could be helping us with maintaining our nectar-rich flower borders, bramble bashing, hedgerow care, planting for pollinators, building nest boxes or insect hotels, carrying out wildlife surveys or planting native trees. You’ll learn how to identify native plants, insects and birds, why wildlife is important for farming and how to support biodiversity in a farmed landscape.
Organic Field-to-Fork Pizza Day
With seasonal produce grown here on The Farm, learn how to make delicious thin crust pizzas. You’ll pick your own toppings and create delicious salads from our fields, learning a little about each crop you pick and how we grow it, then use our traditional cob-oven to cook a delicious lunch to share. (please note there is an additional charge for this session to cover ingredients).
Nature Connection Day Course
Facilitated by our experienced partner EcoWild, we will provide your group with the opportunity to connect with the land and each other, learn new skills, release stress, get active and improve personal and group resilience. Your day will be a bespoke programme, and could include a guided foraging walk, learning bushcraft and forest skills, mindfulness practice or making crafts from locally sourced natural materials. You will leave The Farm with new skills to immerse yourself in nature, feeling grounded in yourself and with a connection to the others in your group.
Further details
Example itinerary (full-day ‘Volunteering’ or Experience days)
10:00am: Arrive, welcome, tea and coffee, followed by an introduction to The Farm’s purpose, history and values and a tour of The Farm highlighting our growing methods.
10.45am: Morning of activities, based on the package you have chosen.
12:30pm: Lunch in the Yurt or Roundhouse
1:30pm: Continuation of the day’s activities
2:45pm: Closing circle and goodbyes
3:00pm: Depart
Costs and booking
For a minimum group size of 7 people, our full-day Experience Days are charged at a nominal rate of £45 per head, excluding lunch (which can be provided at an additional cost - please enquire), or half-days are charged at £30 per head. We normally suggest a maximum group size of 12, however we can increase this by arrangement.
If you would like to join us on The Farm, please get in touch with our Engagement Leader via .
We’ll be in touch with you to discuss your requirements and answer any questions you might have.
We aim to make every school visit to The Community Farm a fun and fruitful learning experience.
Through school visits, we help children to better understand where their food comes from, to discover how it is grown, and to appreciate the importance of healthy eating.
Our education partner, Earthwise, coordinates and leads school visits to the farm and welcomes primary, secondary and pre-school groups.
A visit to The Community Farm not only encourages a greater awareness about food and healthy eating but it can also provide a captivating and memorable way to learn a wide range of curriculum subjects in context.
Activities
We offer a whole programme of outdoor learning experiences at the farm for children of all ages. Whether you are interested in sustainability, how food is grown, healthy eating, habitats or even climate change, The Community Farm is the perfect place to explore all of these topics through hands-on learning.
Our field-to-fork visits are particularly popular and give children the opportunity to explore where their food comes from, how it is grown and even get their hands dirty harvesting their own vegetables to prepare a seasonal snack! By exploring the variety of wildlife habitats on The Farm we can also find out how some creatures help us to grow our food organically.
We work with teachers to tailor your day trip to complement what you are exploring in school.
For more information about Earthwise Farm Visits please click here.
Staff
Our education partner, Earthwise, coordinates and leads our school visits, along with the support of volunteers. Claire Rosling from Earthwise has been leading visits to the farm for over 9 years. She is CEVAS trained, Forest School Leader qualified, a certified Climate Change educator, First Aid trained, DBS checked and Food Safety trained.
Facilities
Most of the day will be spent out in the fields. However, in the event of bad weather, we have an outdoor shelter and yurt. Toilets and hand-washing facilities are available on site.
Our day trips generally run from 10am to 3pm. However we are flexible with this and can arrange times to suit your requirements.
The Community Farm
Denny Lane
Chew Magna
Bristol BS40 8SZ
Our Outlets
The same wonderful, organic produce that goes into our veg boxes is available for sale at The Farm's Veg Shed.
The Community Farm is a not-for-profit organisation, registered with the Financial Conduct Authority as a Community Benefit Society.
Our registration number on the Mutuals Public Register is 31018 R. Our companies Number at Companies House is IP031018