The weekend saw a UK celebration of all things farming, with many farms all over the country opening their barn doors and allowing the public to have a look around and to find about more about life on a farm.

On the Isle of Man, the Kermode family joined in, and welcomed many families to Orrisdale farm, near the Blackboards to have a closer look at the livestock and farm machinery.

Children were allowed to sit on top of some of their vintage farm machinery, including tractors, and there were many friendly meg lambs to cuddle and stroke.

Meg lambs are lambs who have been hand-reared on bottle-fed milk and are used to human contact.

Also there were a collection of miniature Shetland ponies, who enjoyed an afternoon of being brushed and fussed over.

Members of the Kermode family also gave demonstrations of sheep shearing and livestock care, with shepherd Craig Gelling showing the best way to safely clip a frisky sheep.

Elsewhere, children were able to have a go at carding sheep’s wool, enjoy playing on farm-related toys and also don protective gear and safely see the inner workings of a bee hive.

The aim of the Great British open farm day, which first began thirteen years ago, is to get families, children and young people out onto farms and help them learn about where their food comes from, how it is grown and meet the farmers who produce it.