Farmworld (original) (raw)

Farmworld started as a farm educational and leisure park south of the city of Wrexham in North Wales, near the England–Wales border. It opened in 1990 following repeated school visits to the farm in the previous decade looking at farming and food. The visitor experience centred on dairy cows and milk production, lamb feeding and animal care, and land use by means of a mechanised tour on a trailer unit powered by an agricultural tractor. The tours were led by the farmer William Newton Jones who for fifteen years (retired 2006) explained the complexities of land use, animal husbandry, integration of woodlands and landscape, and ultimately its relationship with the day to day consumer of British food.