White Post Farm

White Post Farm Free range fun for all the family, with 25 acres of animals, fun & play. Enjoy indoor and outdoor.

Olly is super excited that we’re back open today!He’s got his silly face on!😋😋😋📸 Farmer Claire’s AP student
30/01/2025

Olly is super excited that we’re back open today!

He’s got his silly face on!😋😋😋

📸 Farmer Claire’s AP student

We are back open from 10am-5pm tomorrow!🐰Wrap up warm and come along for some farm fun! Join in some animal activities s...
29/01/2025

We are back open from 10am-5pm tomorrow!🐰

Wrap up warm and come along for some farm fun! Join in some animal activities such as our Meerkat talk and Wallaby walkabout☺️

Meet animals like these cuties in the Silver Barn all day! Don’t forget if you are an Annual Pass holder, you can bring a friend for free until 13th Feb!

📸Farmer Katie

The year of the snake🐍🐍🐍Today we celebrate the beginning of the Chinese New Year!🎉🥳 This year we fall into the year of t...
29/01/2025

The year of the snake🐍🐍🐍

Today we celebrate the beginning of the Chinese New Year!🎉🥳

This year we fall into the year of the snake, so what better way to celebrate than by taking a look through some of the fabulous photos from our Exotics team!📸

Farmer Fletch here to tell you about her day in the life doing the fabulous farm birthday parties!🥳My days are always d...
28/01/2025



Farmer Fletch here to tell you about her day in the life doing the fabulous farm birthday parties!🥳

My days are always different at the farm! You may have seen me welcoming you in the gift shop, hanging out with the goats or even being an elf! I’m going to talk you through my favourite day at the farm! Birthday parties 🎉🥳🎂

I start off the day by setting the party room up, writing names on the birthday boards and preparing any animal food we will need for the party. I then get to go and greet the birthday boy or girl and ask them about their favourite animals so I can make their experience as special as possible!

Once their party guests have arrived, we start on our field walk. We feed lots of animals, sheep, goats, alpacas, keeping our hands nice and flat. I love helping children gain confidence and skill with the animals. It’s always wonderful to see them come out of their shell as the party goes on.

Then we get to my favourite part of the party! Animal handling. Especially if it’s baby goat season! I love seeing their little faces be just excited as me! I tell the children facts about each animal and answer any questions they might have. It’s so important that children learn how to handle animals safely, and it’s really special that I get to teach them this. I love how excited they all get! Particularly with the little mice who can be quite energetic!

Then we head to the party room for some lunch! Sometimes the parents like to play party games which I love getting involved in.

I’m so grateful that I get to teach the upcoming generations about the beauty of animals. It truly is magical ❤

Thank you for reading - I hope to see you soon🎉🎂

Farmer Chris is here to give you an insight into his day on a roadshow!🚜On a roadshow I start my day off with the excit...
27/01/2025



Farmer Chris is here to give you an insight into his day on a roadshow!🚜

On a roadshow I start my day off with the exciting part, finding out where I’m going, which can be anywhere from schools, to summer fairs and also what animals I’m bringing with me. Sometimes I even get to bring some goats along too!🐐

Then I load up all the animals and equipment we need for the day into our van (it’s like a big game of Tetris)👾

When we get to the roadshow I love setting up our stand because I basically get to build my own mini zoo and then I get to show people all of our lovely animals and tell them all about them too 🙂

My favourite part of a roadshow is getting to talk to loads of amzing people about our animals on the farm (especially the snakes since there my favourite)🐍

Then at the end of the day I pop all of the animals back in the van ready to go back to the farm for a good nights sleep after having a nice day out.😴

Thank you for reading my day in the life, and keep your eyes peeled for a white post farm roadshow… you might see me!

Lots of you came out and joined in with our Big Garden Birdwatch on Saturday!🦜🦅From bird spotting in the Tea Room garden...
27/01/2025

Lots of you came out and joined in with our Big Garden Birdwatch on Saturday!🦜🦅

From bird spotting in the Tea Room gardens, to meet and greets with our Tawny owl… we had a great day celebrating conservation☺️

Just a reminder that the farm will be closed again from Monday-Wednesday, reopening at 10am on Thursday☺️The WPF team wi...
26/01/2025

Just a reminder that the farm will be closed again from Monday-Wednesday, reopening at 10am on Thursday☺️

The WPF team will be busy on site caring for the animals and preparing for February half term… Jungle Antics!🦎🐍

26/01/2025

Join Farmer Katie and Farmer Sarah for a wallaby breakfast to celebrate Australia Day 🇦🇺 🦘

Today is the Falconers over at go active! No day is ever the same within the falconry centre!We always have our chores...
25/01/2025



Today is the Falconers over at go active!

No day is ever the same within the falconry centre!

We always have our chores, cleaning the aviaries and doing all the necessary health checks on the birds but the most important role within the day is to ensure the birds are fed well. We weigh each bird to ensure its at optimal flying weight and its general health before preparing a high-quality diet.

You will often see us within the falconry centre flying the birds to and from perches and each other’s gloves and where needed up in the flying arena for essential training purposes. On weekends and school holidays we have the flying displays to prepare for and most people will recognise the golf buggy and trailer full of boxes making its way up to the flying field.

We also work together to deliver the vast array of experiences we offer from handling to flying and even photography sessions.

We undertake a lot of outreach work off site and all the birds need to be prepared for these activities which may be school visits, nature groups, experience sessions at various locations and our very own woodland for hawk walks.

We always love meeting all the public walking around the centre and talking to them about the different birds we have and their personalities.

As the end of the day draws near, we ensure the site is nice and clean and all aviaries are secured for overnight.

We are a small team at Go Active and we work together to provide a welcoming and inviting falconry centre and you will often see us busily wondering around with various birds on our gloves at all times of the day.

Thanks for seeing what we get up to!
Go Active Falconry - The Bird of Prey & Conservation Centre

🦜It’s Big Garden Birdwatch day!🦜Check out the timetable for Go Active Falconrys exciting timetable of meet and greets!🦅H...
25/01/2025

🦜It’s Big Garden Birdwatch day!🦜

Check out the timetable for Go Active Falconrys exciting timetable of meet and greets!🦅

Head to the Tea Room Gardens between 11am-12noon for some birdwatching with the WPF team!👀

Use your identifier sheets to spot the different species of birds that land in the gardens and mark it down!

We would love to see your birdwatching photos! Whether that’s from the farm, or your own backyard… post them down below!⬇️📸

RSPB Birdwatch

Hello there, Farmer Craig here and like many at the farm, daily roles are pretty varied. My usual area is caring for th...
24/01/2025



Hello there, Farmer Craig here and like many at the farm, daily roles are pretty varied. My usual area is caring for the “exotic” species held at the farm, this is a broad group ranging from cockroaches to crocodiles.🐊

Though I am always happy to jump in wherever is needed, from guiding groups of visitors, working with the college students or heading out to local areas on visits.

First things first, opening up and checking the buildings for any overnight issues and ensuring all life support systems are working. Then sorting out morning feeds, boiling eggs, chopping veg and sorting out the creepy crawlies!🪲

Feeding around to species such as our armadillos, porcupines and fish in with Willow and the crocodiles, while also cleaning and changing water bowls, poo picking and health checks!☺️

After the first morning jobs are done it’s time to record the parameter checks, temperatures are important especially at this time of year, making sure the animals are warm enough to be active and digest their food, while also ensuring the ones skipping winter with their form of hibernation are cool enough to stay healthy and asleep!😴

Early afternoon is veg feeding, in summer I enjoy a little forage around the site looking for tasty plans for our tortoise, lizards and insects! Then it’s feeding the food time, making sure the live good such as locust, crickets and meal worms are healthy and full of goodness to be passed on to species that love to snack on them… E.g our lizards, tenrecs and even the crocodiles!

Throughout the day we carry out several public talks, our keeper talk is a particular favourite as I love having a natter about all kinds of interesting animals.🐐

Encounters can be throughout the day and are a nice change of pace for me, giving people the opportunity to have a close up and hands on interaction with some amazing species, just being inside the enclosure and sharing that experience with new people is always a pleasure☺️

Tasks change from season to season, such as over Summer the hive of honey bees need checking to ensure they’re all doing well or undertaking our butterfly and bee counting trail.🐝🦋

A favourite late summer task of mine is ensuring the bug hotels are ready for overwintering invertebrates!🐛🐜

The Big Birdwatch kicks off tomorrow!🦜🦅Joins us for the Big Garden birdwatch on Saturday 24th January! Come along and co...
24/01/2025

The Big Birdwatch kicks off tomorrow!🦜🦅

Joins us for the Big Garden birdwatch on Saturday 24th January! Come along and count the different species of birds that land in the tea room gardens. Use identifying sheets to spot the different species and mark them off✅

Go Active Falconry will be hosting a range of meet and greets throughout the day, with the native species of birds of prey! Meet them at the Giant Picture Frame or The Silver Barn… weather dependent!📸l

There will be a range of conservation ideas and colouring activities in our Activity shed!🖍️📃

Come along and get stuck in… with a chance to win 2x animal encounters for participating🐐🥰

Farmer Katie gets up to lots of exotics fun in her day-in-the-life!🦎On the exotics team in a mornings we split up, and ...
23/01/2025



Farmer Katie gets up to lots of exotics fun in her day-in-the-life!🦎

On the exotics team in a mornings we split up, and one of us checks on the animals outside, and one works in Reptiles of the World. In the reptile house we have to give the animals fresh water, check the temperatures of their houses, remove any poo or skin that’s been shed off and spray some of the enclosures to make them humid.🐍

Throughout the day we need to make sure the animals are fed and this could mean giving the lizards bugs to eat or giving the tortoises a lovely salad!🥗

We also need to make sure the animals are healthy so this may be picking them up and physically inspecting their bodies, or it could be getting them to pop on the scales to check the animals weight⚖️

To make the animals happy on the farm we give them enrichment. It is fun to hide bugs for black tree monitors. I enjoy taking pictures or videos of the animals so that they can be shared with you guys on socials!📸

A job that happens throughout the day is going to our talks. My favourite talk to do is the armadillo talk as they are my favourite animals on the farm, and I could talk about them for ages! I also love to do Sheep racing during the summer months🐑🏁🎤

I hope you all enjoyed hearing about my days at the farm!❤️

Anybody else having a bad hair day? Check out Nibbly our Oxford Sandy black pig! You can find Nibbly in the silver barn....
23/01/2025

Anybody else having a bad hair day?

Check out Nibbly our Oxford Sandy black pig!
You can find Nibbly in the silver barn.

📸 Farmer Sarah

Farmer Nicki is here to tell you all about her day-in-the-life at the farm!🥰My days working at the farm can vary so muc...
22/01/2025



Farmer Nicki is here to tell you all about her day-in-the-life at the farm!🥰

My days working at the farm can vary so much as I have several roles!

I could be working in the office taking bookings, answering the phone or doing general office duties, or I may be on the entrance gate welcoming customers and restocking the shelves!📞

I could also be guiding school groups around the farm, taking our animals out on Roadshows to schools and local events, helping with Home Educator Days or helping the events team!🎪

You may have also seen me as the commentator for our wonderful Sheep Racing!🐑🎤

Regardless of what I am doing on any given day, I love every part of my job and especially working with everyone… the WPF team, the animals and the customers!🥰

Thanks for reading!

Look at this photo Farmer Adam took 📸 Would you agree Smokey Joe looks as beautiful as the sunset?A reminder we are open...
22/01/2025

Look at this photo Farmer Adam took 📸
Would you agree Smokey Joe looks as beautiful as the sunset?

A reminder we are open Thursday to Sunday this week 🐴🐎🐴

It’s Farmer Jeanie now, giving you an insight into her day-in-the-life!🚜My day starts as soon as I get to the office, a...
21/01/2025



It’s Farmer Jeanie now, giving you an insight into her day-in-the-life!🚜

My day starts as soon as I get to the office, and I get ready for whatever is planned for the day!

You may see me in the morning running Little Farmers Club, our early years group which has animal interactions and craft activities all themed around our story of the week.📚

In the afternoon, I spend time planning lots of different educational activities. At the minute, I’m planning some activities for the Big Garden Birdwatch, our new workshops for school groups, and the Ranger Academies, which are coming up in the Easter half term!

I also spend time doing my favourite job (note the sarcasm😅) on the entire farm, checking the zoo signs are all okay and correct at each pen!

What I love about my job is that my days aren’t always like this. There are other days where I might be getting ready for a day of guiding a group around the farm, a day on the road doing one of our animal roadshows, or even heading off site to go to different zoos to share and swap ideas and meet their lovely animals!🐨

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Mansfield Road
Newark
NG228HL

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Monday 10am - 5pm
Tuesday 10am - 5pm
Wednesday 10am - 5pm
Thursday 10am - 5pm
Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 5pm
Sunday 10am - 5pm

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01623 882977

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Join Farmer Katie and Farmer Sarah for a wallaby breakfast to celebrate Australia Day 🇦🇺 🦘

We had Southwell Young Farmers visit us yesterday to donate over 100 Christmas trees for the animals here at the farm!🌲 Find out a bit more about what they got up to and their reasons for collecting and donating the leftover trees🥰

Play Time!🛝🐯 With a range of play all day, from our indoor Jungle Barn, Sky Jumpers, Merv’s Lookout & Miniville… you are guaranteed to keep the kids entertained!☺️

Animal Encounters🐑🐍 Want to spend some quality time with an animal of your choice? Take a look at our Animal Encounter offerings!☺️

A day at the farm🚜❤️ Animal feeding, farm fun & more!

Our elves are ready to get back to work this weekend!🧝✨ Our third weekend of Christmas at the Farm is upon us… we cannot wait for the festive cheer to return!☺️🎄❄️

It’s the 1st of December!🎅🏼 You know what that means… He’s arrived!✨ Christmas at the Farm officially begins today! With our Santa Sleigh slots beginning at 10:30am, if you have booked general admission and would like to upgrade on arrival, ask at the entrance gate for possible availability!🛷 Book your December slot using the link below!⬇️🎟️ https://whitepostfarm.digitickets.co.uk/category/51352

15-hours to go until our first Santa Sleigh experience kicks off!🎅🏼✨ We can’t wait to welcome you all back for Christmas at the Farm 2024!🎄

Join us on this frosty evening to two new beautiful arrivals 🐑🐑

What will you spend your snowflake coins on?❄️❄️❄️ Included in your Christmas at the Farm admission, you will receive some snowflake coins to spend at our Farm Christmas Market!🎅🏼✨ 🔥Toast a Marshmallow and enjoy the gooey goodness! 🍪Decorate your own gingerbread biscuit to take home and enjoy! 🍬Visit Pixies Sweet Emporium and treat yourselves to some sweeties! 🦌Make some Reindeer Food to be used on Christmas Eve to help Santa find your house! You can also purchase extra Snowflake coins to spend on all these activities☺️ Christmas at the Farm🎟️ https://whitepostfarm.digitickets.co.uk/category/51352

🎅🏼Christmas at the Farm 2024🎅🏼 ✨ Christmas at the Farm begins on Sunday 1st December, taking place every weekend until Christmas!🎄 🛷Book your slot with Santa and enjoy the festive feel of the farm this Christmas! 🔥Enjoy the Christmas village! Toast marshmallows, decorate gingerbread and so much more! Book your tickets here!🎟️ https://whitepostfarm.digitickets.co.uk/category/51352 Special thanks to Forecast Designs for this magical video!✨

The Pantomime has well and truly begun!🎪🥳 Jack and the Beanstalk has been a great hit so far! Here’s a sneak peak of what to expect…👀 With many more showings to come over the weekend, get yourselves booked in now for just £5 per person!⬇️❤️ https://whitepostfarm.digitickets.co.uk/category/58276?navItem=717017

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