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When: Friday, July 12 and Saturday July 13.
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Gates open: 8:30 am till 5pm each day.
- Eftpos available at gates from 8:30-2pm.
Where: AREC, adjacent the Mudgee airport.
Travel
Free Bus Service
Buses will leave from the following locations every 20 minutes. Commencing from 8am, until approximately 6pm.
- Mudgee High School
- Cudgegong Valley Public School
- Oporto Road Shopping Centre
- Banjo Patterson Ave Bus Shelter
- Banjo Paterson Ave - Fairydale end
- Bell Street Caravan Park
- Mudgee Tourist Information Centre
- St Matthew's Catholic School
Parking: FREE. There are two public car parks, follow signs as you arrive in Mudgee.
- One entry is from Ulan Road
- The other is via Henry Lawson Drive
Cost:
- One Day Adult Pass - $ 20
- Two Day Adult Pass - $ 30
- Under 5 years - FREE
- One Day Child Pass - $5 (5 - 16 years)
- Two Day Child Pass - $10 (5 - 16 years)
- One Day Family Pass - $40 (2 Adults and up to 2 children)
- Two Day Family Pass - $60 (2 Adults and up to 2 children) *NEW*
- One Day Pensioner Pass - $10 (Pensioner Cardholders ONLY)
- Two Day Pensioner Pass - $15 (Pensioner Cardholders ONLY)
See the Mudgee Small Farm Field Days team set up. Story continues after video.
What to do?
Pavilion
The Founders Pavilion is one of the highlights of the Small Farms Field Days. A pavilion full of a variety of stalls including homegrown goods, information about education and more. You can't miss the pavilion there's 12 entrances and an enormous space.
Kids Activities
- Animal Nursery: open all day
- David Foster: Meet a World Champion Axeman (available all day)
- Discovery Hunt: Explore the site, receive a reward
- Fashion Parade at 11am and 2pm at the Windmill
- Fears, fangs and fascinations: Reptile awareness displays every 30 minutes from 10am
- Fire Trucks: See the NSW RFS all day
- Get Hooked: It's fun to fish with DPI Fisheries: At 10am to 12pm and 1.30pm to 3.30pm
- Haystack building fun: Hazlecombe Farm from 2pm
- Horses and Donkey:
- Pony Rides from 10am to 4pm
- See daredevil riders performing stunts at 10.30, 12.30 and 2.30pm.
- Meet Oliver the Donkey and Araluen the trick
- Horse breeds large and small Arena Activities
- Pony Rides from 10am to 4pm
- Pony Rides from 10am to 4pm
- See daredevil riders performing stunts at 10.30, 12.30 and 2.30pm.
- Meet Oliver the Donkey and Araluen the trick
- Horse breeds large and small Arena Activities
- Pony Rides from 10am to 4pm
- See daredevil riders performing stunts at 10.30, 12.30 and 2.30pm.
- Meet Oliver the Donkey and Araluen the trick
- Horse breeds large and small Arena Activities
- Pony Rides from 10am to 4pm
- See daredevil riders performing stunts at 10.30, 12.30 and 2.30pm.
- Meet Oliver the Donkey and Araluen the trick
- Horse breeds large and small Arena Activities
- Pony Rides from 10am to 4pm
- See daredevil riders performing stunts at 10.30, 12.30 and 2.30pm.
- Meet Oliver the Donkey and Araluen the trick
- Horse breeds large and small Arena Activities
- Kids Shed: Girl Guides Beehive- make a bee hotel and learn more about plants bees love and get your face painted and a mechanical bull (for all kids big and small) open between 10am and 3pm.
- Livestock: Poultry, Sheep,Cattle, Goats, Alpacas and more.
- Milking demonstration with Fleckvieh cows at 10am
- Music: Live and Local from 11am to 2pm in the Centre Ring
- MY AG: Kids Farm Activities Get a photo with a baby lamb, shop to table and animal husbandry activities, straw bale maze and fun chicken run
- NSW Police: Meet your SES mascot
- Scarecrow building from 10.30am
- Yard Dog Trials: All Day
- Helicopter Joy Flights All Day
Who's speaking?
FRIDAY
10am: Regenerative Agriculture - Why and How: Colin Seis: Local Farmer and Agricultural Innovator
11.30am: Healthy Soils = Healthy Plants: Sarah Curry - Majors Mulch
1.30pm: Art and the Changing Culture of Agriculture: Kandos School of Cultural Adaption
3pm: Planning Your Property Using Permaculture Karren Lewis Green Gully Creek Farm
SATURDAY
10am: Fascinating Fungi Uschi Rowlands Gourmet Mushrooms of Mudgee
11.30am: Healthy Soils = Healthy Plants: Sarah Curry - Majors Mulch
1.30pm: Regenerative Agriculture - Why and How Col Seis Local farmer and Agricultural Innovator
3pm: Birds and Bees Tamara Bowman
Grace Ryan
Deputy Editor at the Central Western Daily, Orange. You'll mostly find me tinkering in social media and newsletters. Working hard to get our stories in front of your eyes.
Deputy Editor at the Central Western Daily, Orange. You'll mostly find me tinkering in social media and newsletters. Working hard to get our stories in front of your eyes.
