Lambing event at college puts spring in the step of visitors

The event at Askham Bryan College, York, gave the public the opportunity to see the newborn lambs and ewes and allowed visitors like Ewan Henworth to handle them.

The college also offered a number of other activities to give visitors more of a flavour of farming life – and the chance to have some fun. There was children’s face painting, a bouncy castle and balloon modelling.

And these were staged alongside tractor tours and demonstrations of robotic and the more traditional milking techniques.

The college says the purpose of the day is to make farming more meaningful and real to people, and to give visitors an idea of what’s involved in modern-day farming.

For the first time there were demonstrations of spinning and weaving, courtesy of the Guild of Weaving, spinning and dyeing, butchery demonstrations and a farmers’ market organised by deliciouslyorkshire.

Askham Bryan provides a range of courses, from introductory lessons for school-leavers to honours degrees. The college also operates centres across Yorkshire – in Guisborough, Bedale, Harrogate, Scarborough, Thirsk and Wakefield.