Due to the circumstances related to the outbreak of Coronavirus (COVID-19), LEAF has announced that this year’s Open Farm Sunday event will be postponed until September. Charlotte Cunningham reports.
As per the announcement, the event will now be held on Sunday 20 Sept 2020, and the organisation says it’s a decision that has not been made lightly. However, given the challenges that the whole country faces in the coming weeks and months, LEAF has been left with little choice but to postpone the event to later in the year.
Caroline Drummond, LEAF chief executive, said: “We have spoken to a number of our host farmers to understand the impact of postponing to later in the year. We are pleased with the positive response from our ever enthusiastic farmers, many of whom have indicated that they would like to still host LEAF Open Farm Sunday 2020. Consequently, we have rearranged the date to 20th September 2020.
“We look forward to welcoming the public out onto farm at a different and interesting time of year to take pleasure from getting outside and celebrating farming, food and nature. We will continue to support farmers hosting an LOFS event in September and to encourage the public to visit a farm and discover the world of farming.”
Anyone with questions about this postponement can visit the FAQ page on www.farmsunday.org or email the LOFS team OpenFarmSunday@leafuk.org.
