Our Cow Molly opens it's doors online for a virtual Open Farm Sunday

The team at a Sheffield dairy farm, Our Cow Molly, showed online visitors how to turn cream in to butter and talked about the importance of carbon capture during a virtual Open Farm Sunday.
By Sophie McCandlish
Published 7th Jun 2020, 16:45 BST
Eddie demonstrates how the grass and soil play their part in carbon captureEddie demonstrates how the grass and soil play their part in carbon capture
Eddie demonstrates how the grass and soil play their part in carbon capture

To mark the day which should have seen farms across the country open their gates to the public for a behind-the-scenes look at farming and food production, organisers Linking Environment and Farming (LEAF) took the event online.

Eddie Andrews from Our Cow Molly streamed his presentation live from a field on LEAF’s Facebook page.

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In it he talked about farmers being “custodians of carbon capture”, digging up a plug from the ground to show the roots and soil. He explained how the pasture captures carbon from the air and breaks it down, adding that grazing cows help stimulate grass growth so as well as producing great food they are helping the environment.

Eddie and Cora demonstrated how to make butter from cream as part of the online Open Farm Sunday.Eddie and Cora demonstrated how to make butter from cream as part of the online Open Farm Sunday.
Eddie and Cora demonstrated how to make butter from cream as part of the online Open Farm Sunday.

He also talked about different milk packaging, explaining how a glass milk bottle needed to be used 13 times before it became an environmental positive.

LEAF is hoping to hold an on-farm Open Farm Sunday on September 20. Videos from the virtual event are at facebook.com/LEAFopenfarmsunday/

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