24-05-2025
Oxfordshire farming sisters open pop-up straw bale event
Four sisters have created a children's playground and maze at their Oxfordshire farm using 300 bales of Katy, Lucy and Jess have opened the Big Bale Play at High Lodge Farm in Culham, Abingdon, over the May said they came up with the idea for the pop-up event after spending hours playing on bales as children at their family farm in Didcot."We all have very fond memories of long evenings chasing each other over them so we thought 'Why not recreate it for the public?'," said Lucy.
High Lodge Farm is a working farm for most of the year but the sisters host several pop-up events throughout the year to make ends week's event, now in its third year, runs for nine days from the straw bales will then be stored and used for livestock during the winter or sold to local farmers.
Lucy said they usually had a few straw bales at their other events that proved popular with children which made them think of doing it "on a huge scale". "I don't know what it is about them, but kids seem drawn to straw bales," she said. "It's the perfect summer playground and a lot of fun."
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