Philip Day, Hanging Chaddar Farm

A visit to Hanging Chadder Farm on Open Farm Sunday (12th June) offers a great opportunity to discover the story behind your food and so much more. Run by Philip Day and his brother Colin, Hanging Chadder Farm is also a member of LEAF (Linking Environment And Farming), the organisers of Open Farm Sunday. LEAF is a registered charity that assists farmers and producers, to manage their farms as efficiently and sustainably as possible which as a result, helps them to produce good food with care for the environment.

The family farm which was started by the brothers’ granddad is now home to a herd of 75 dairy cows, rare breed pigs and beef cattle. As well as Open Farm Sunday they regularly host visits for local schools to help children understand more about how their food is produced - an activity they are passionate about.

Visitors to Hanging Chadder Farm on Open Farm Sunday will have the opportunity to meet with the partners and have a guided tractor and trailer ride around the farm – so they can see and hear for themselves about how Philip and Colin care for the animals and the countryside around. Visitors will find out about the miles of hedgerows that they maintain, the fishing pond which has recently been reinstated and the field margins that provide an important habitat for a wide range of wildlife.

 The Days’ like most farmers are always looking for ways to improve the efficiency of the farm and conserving valuable resources like water, which they now source from a local spring. They are in the process of installing a biomass boiler, which will produce hot water for use in the processing dairy, by burning packaging waste, timber and paper from local industry, which would otherwise end up in landfill.

The day promises a great range of activities and experiences from seeing cows being milked, having a close look at some of the high tech machinery used on the farm and tasting and buying lots of different local dairy produce, home produced meats, and preserves and cakes from their farmhouse.

Philip Day, Hanging Chadder Farm, Royton, Oldham, Lancashire OL2 6XR
Tel: 0161 6262516

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David Gough or Laura Bates
Open Farm Sunday Press Office   
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