VISITORS flocked to a Frodsham farm and raised hundreds of pounds for the Motor Neurone Disease Association.
Hatley Farm, Frodsham, opened its doors to the public to take part in the National Farmers Union Open Farm Sunday event and welcomed more than 500 visitors.
Liz Warburton, who runs the operation with her husband Graham and his brother Geoffrey and wife Gill, said: “Open Farm Sunday is very much a team effort for us with about 25 helpers made up of family, staff and friends all working together.
“Without them the event here simply could not take place.
“Graham is passionate about getting the general public, especially children, onto working local farms, to reconnect with where their food comes from, and how the countryside is taken care of.”
As well as welcoming the public on to the site on June 13 the family raised money for the Motor Neurone Association in memory of Lionel Warburton who died of the disease, raising about £450 for the charity.
It was the third time the 950-acre farm business had taken part in Open Farm Sunday as part of the family policy of welcoming the general public on to their farms.
Farming is spread over two units, Hatley Farm and Depmore Farm managed as a single unit with cropping including 350 acres wheat, 150 acres barley, 100 acres potatoes, and 160 acres oilseed rape with the remaining land down to grass.
Beef cattle bought in as calves are reared and finished for beef using the grassland during the summer and housed in the autumn on home produced silage and rolled barley.
They are sold through Beeston Auction and there are normally around 100 head on the farm at any one time.
