A highlight of the community's 'Down on our Farms' programme this year was Susan Shone's big Farm Open Day.
Lots of families enjoyed the chance to look at animals, inspect the amazing machinery that modern farms use today and study a range of displays in the lovely old barns that explained what crops are grown on the farm and what they are used for.
There were trailer rides out into the fields, a chance to climb into the huge combine harvester and a quiz for children of all ages.
Do you know how much water a cow drinks in a day? What products are made from the farm's oil seed rape, wheat and barley? And how many forward gears does the tractor have?
The Open Day also provided an opportunity for parishioners, family and friends to buy some of Susan's delicious beef - either to take home for the freezer or to savour as melt-in-the-mouth burgers on the barbecue in the barn.
Susan estimated that just over 100 people came along to the event. 'All the hard work that went into it was justified and people seemed to enjoy it and to learn something too' she concluded.
And the answers to those quiz questions: cows drink 48 litres of water a day; both cooking oil and bio-diesel are made from oil seed rape; wheat is used for bread, biscuits and for distilling for the bio-ethanol market; beer, whisky, breakfast cereals and bread are made from barley. And Susan's tractor has 18 forward gears!
