Open Farm Sunday 

7th June, 11am until 2pm​

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Free walk-in event:

- Hay-making demonstration
- Livestock on the water-meadows (cattle are currently in Bridge Field, see map below)
- Nature trail with natural play activities (in Bankside Meadow, see map below)
- Accessible path (from entrance (c) on map below) to the viewing platform by the River Bourne chalk stream 

- River invertebrates to identify at the viewing platform
- Community orchard (in and adjacent to Barn Field, see map below)
- Laverstock Scouts stand selling fudge and dog biscuits
- Laverstock and Ford Parish Council stand

Please walk in or use public transport. There is also off-site parking at the Salisbury Park and Ride London Road car park - it is about a 10 minute walk from the park and ride to the top of the water meadows (entrance (a) on the map below), and about a 15 minute walk from here through the meadows to Barn Field.​​​

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Laverstock Water-meadows are 65 acres of wildflower rich flood-plain meadows owned and farmed by the Devenish Bradshaw Charitable Trust. Local graziers bring their cattle and sheep onto the meadows during the growing season. We cut hay on some of our fields, have Cricket Bat Willows which we harvest for commercial cricket bat manufacture and grow old varieties of orchard trees.

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