The farm­ing press have been ful­ly behind the plans for LEAF Open Farm Sun­day 2017, with some love­ly fea­tures and arti­cles. Here we run through a selec­tion of online arti­cles that have recent­ly been published.

2017 got off to a great start with Hort News and Farm­ers Week­ly pub­lish­ing arti­cles pro­mot­ing the new OFS Bite­size webi­na­rs as a use­ful watch for farm­ers think­ing of open­ing, pro­vid­ing a sched­ule of all the planned webi­na­rs com­ing up. 

Talk­ing about the OFS Bite­size webi­na­rs Annabel Shack­le­ton, LEAF’s Open Farm Sun­day man­ag­er said: ​“There is so much inspi­ra­tion and expe­ri­ence amongst our co-ordi­na­tors and expe­ri­enced host farm­ers, so these webi­na­rs offer a great plat­form to share this exper­tise and pro­vide an easy and inter­ac­tive way for farm­ers to engage with the OFS team direct­ly and get a head start on their plan­ning to ensure max­i­mum suc­cess for Open Farm Sun­day 2017.”

“We’d like to invite every­one, whether they have opened before or are think­ing about open­ing for the first time on June 11, 2017, to join us for our OFS Bite­size webinars.”

Click here to read the full Hort News arti­cle, and here is the Farm­ers Week­ly piece.

Then on 24^th Jan­u­ary 2017 Farm­ers Week­ly pub­lished an inter­est­ing arti­cle talk­ing about the myths, and pro­vid­ing infor­ma­tion and advice on host­ing an Open Farm Sun­day event. Click here to read more.

On 28^th Jan­u­ary 2017 Farm­ers Guardian pro­vid­ed some use­ful infor­ma­tion for farm­ers, ask­ing ​‘Do you want to be an Open Farm Sun­day host?’

Car­o­line Drum­mond MBE, Chief Exec­u­tive of LEAF (Link­ing Envi­ron­ment And Farm­ing), has writ­ten an open let­ter encour­ag­ing involve­ment in this year’s Open Farm Sun­day. This was pub­lished on 21^st Feb­ru­ary on the Farm­ing UK website.

Details of how Scot­tish farm­ers can gear up for Open Farm Sun­day 2017 in Scot­land were pub­lished in The Scot­tish Farmer on 22^nd Feb­ru­ary 2017. Click here to read the full article.

With more cov­er­age expect­ed in the com­ing weeks keep your eyes peeled for more Open Farm Sun­day men­tions as we look ahead to anoth­er excit­ing, infor­ma­tive Open Farm Sunday.