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Come and discover the farm animals of Occombe, even get the chance to feed some of them!.

Time: 10am-11am All ages welcome

Cost: £3 per person

Please note all attendees must pay and all children must be accompanied by a paying adult.

Parents come along with your tots and experience the great outdoors at Occombe Farm. We'll search for minibeasts and hunt out farm animals on this farm safari!

Time: 9:30am - 11:30am
Location: Occombe Farm
Price: £5 per child (age range toddlers - 5-year-olds, babies can come along free of charge).
Booking: Essential as spaces limited

Autumn Stars and Planets

Saturday 20th October

8.00pm - 10.00pm

Join astronomer Chris Proctor for a night with the family under the autumn sky. We will tour the constellations and use our telescopes to look at sights including Moon, Mars and the distant ice giant planet Uranus. If cloudy we will walk around the reserve to look for moths, bats and other night-time wildlife. Hot drinks will be provided.

Meet at the Occombe Farm Cookery School

Suitable for both adults and children.

All children must be accompanied by a paying adult.

Join our marine ranger and explore the incredible marine life that lives in Torbay's rock pools. Discover feisty crabs, slimy anemones, wriggly starfish, sneaky prawns and more in the rock pools of Middlestone!

£3.50 per person (suitable for all ages)

All children must be accompanied by a paying adult

,Come and see what spooky and wild surprises we have in store for Halloween!

Tots come along to Occombe Farm to discover the sights, smells and colours of autumn!

Tots come along to Occombe for a very Christmassy morning! 

We will start of with some festive story telling warm by the fire, complete a Christmas trail in the garden and then finish off with some Christmas crafts!

Monday 17th December - Friday 21st December

Monring sessions 9.30am - 11.00am

Booking essential

Learn how to identify 10+ of our most common birds with local bird expert Mike Langman:

• Talk at 1pm £2 per person

This is part of the larger Bird Watch Day event, which also includes a guided walk and art and craft activities. Please see separate event ticket for guided walk purchase.

Art and craft activities are on a donation basis, drop in antime between 11am - 3pm

Saturday 24th November

Morning session 9.30am - 11.30am

Afternoon session 1.00pm - 3.00pm

Get Christmas off to a festive start with a morning or afternoon of eduble gift making for big and little kids. Make seasonal treats like reindeer poops, angel's snowdrops, carrot muffins ( for Rudolph) and gingerbread hearts and stars for your tree!

£20 per group (maximum of 3 people per group to include one adult)

Suitable for families