Roves Farm & Visitor Centre

Roves Farm & Visitor Centre

Roves Farm has remained a working farm. Over the past several years it has undergone some significant changes and is now predominantly a livestock farm; our commercial sheep flocks, pigs and cow herds have grown significantly as we look to supply our farm shop, opened in 2017, with high quality meat produce year round. We currently run a commercial flock of 300 Poll Dorset and Suffolk cross breeding ewes, 20 Gloucester Old Spot breeding sows, producing over 350+ piglets a year, and a herd of 40 breeding Sussex cows.

In the past arable land has been planted to crops such as wheat, barley, oats and beans. Much of this land has now been put down to pasture to feed and house our growing numbers of livestock through the year. A proportion of the arable land also now houses a solar farm, a source of renewable energy, where our sheep and hens graze the grass beneath the panels. Short rotation willow coppice has been harvested and stored to provide wood chip to fuel our biomass boilers, which heat the visitor centre during the colder months.

A working livestock farm supplying our Farm Shop with fresh, quality produce

Flower rich meadows and grass field margins, hedgerows, woodlands, wild bird covers and watercourses are a haven for a diverse array of wildlife living and feeding on the farm. You might be lucky enough to see deer, foxes, squirrels, pheasants, birds of prey and many more on our tractor rides around the farm.

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