Large event - 1000 visitors

A well-known North East dairy farm is throw­ing open its gates to the pub­lic and local school­child­ren as part of the forth­com­ing Open Farm Sun­day celebration.

Rod­dy and Angela Cat­to, who farm at Hill­head of Muir­ton, White­cairns, near Dyce have invit­ed local school­child­ren to vis­it the farm on Fri­day 15 June. A day lat­er (Sat­ur­day 16 June), the farm invites all mem­bers of the pub­lic to come along.

Work­ing with the Roy­al North­ern Coun­try­side Ini­tia­tive, there is a treat in store for all who vis­it. Not only do they get to see a mod­ern dairy farm and the sto­ry of where milk comes from but there are guid­ed farm tours, sheep­dog demon­stra­tions and work­ing farm machin­ery on dis­play. And for ani­mal lovers, there will be cows, calves, sheep, pigs, goats and poul­try. Also avail­able will be a wide selec­tion of local­ly pro­duced foods and, on the Sat­ur­day, cook­ery demon­stra­tions and tastings.

An excit­ed Rod­dy said: ​“We are absolute­ly delight­ed to be wel­com­ing local schools to Hill­head of Muir­ton on Fri­day 15 June and we open to the pub­lic the day after.

“We have pulled togeth­er an action-packed, infor­ma­tive and enter­tain­ing event that will have some­thing for every­one. We are keen that peo­ple hear the fan­tas­tic sto­ry we have about the qual­i­ty and prove­nance of local pro­duce and intro­duce them to the vast array of local busi­ness­es who pro­duce food and drink on our doorstep.

“We also want the pub­lic, and espe­cial­ly chil­dren, to learn more about poten­tial careers in agri­cul­ture. You don’t need to be a farmer and stuck at the back­end of a cow to have a career in our indus­try. There are many farm­ing relat­ed careers – some less, and some more prac­ti­cal — which are equal­ly as excit­ing and reward­ing for school chil­dren to consider.

Roy­al North­ern Agri­cul­tur­al Ini­tia­tive Man­ag­er Rob Clu­nas, who has helped organ­ise the event said: ​“We are so pleased to be work­ing in part­ner­ship with NFU Scot­land and the Cat­to fam­i­ly, in help­ing pro­mote our agri­cul­tur­al indus­try to school chil­dren, their teach­ers and the pub­lic over these two days. It should be an amaz­ing­ly infor­ma­tive event for every­one involved.”