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Campus opens up to record visitors
Organisers believe there was a record attendance at this year’s Open Farm Sunday, run at the Cambridge campus of the College of West Anglia.
Alison Barber, head of faculty at the campus and its adjoining Woodside Farm at Milton, believes more than 2,000 people attended, young and not-so-young alike.
She said: “We are absolutely thrilled to have had over 2,000 visitors. It is the most we have ever had.
“It has clearly grown and we got some lovely comments from the visitors.
“There was a lovely atmosphere.”
As well as being able to see animals of all shapes and sizes and rarity, there were numerous attractions, tractor rides and equine displays and visitors were able to handle some of the smaller animals, housed at both the main campus and the farm.
One of the newest attractions was a baby llama, born at the farm only two weeks earlier. There were rheas, Alpacas, other different farm animals and much smaller animals.
Open Farm Sunday is a growing national promotion, which began in 2006. It is designed to get people more interested in farms, farming and food. To date more than a million people have visited farms during Open Farm Sunday.