Dan Jones the Great Orme Shepherd is once again offering us a few hours to explain his job and offer a couple of demonstrations finishing with home reared burgers for lunch!

Dan comes from a farming family, having spent over 20 years farming in his own right in North Wales, including several years as the Snowdon Shepherd and now the last 5 years on the Great Orme as the shepherd for the National Trust, he describes himself as a Conservation Farmer, putting nature first. 

Broadly the morning will look like this

10am Meet at the summit car park

Welcome 

Tour of the farm

Overview of sheep farming in North Wales

Explanation about different breeds

Sheepdog demonstration

Shearing demonstration

The morning will end with lunch provided by Dan with his home reared lamb burgers, cake and coffee / tea.

There will be plenty of opportunity for questions

A payment of £10 is payable on the day to Dan for lunch

You can check out Dan here...

https://www.facebook.com/Dan-Jones-Great-Orme-Shepherd-1180831858643812/?ref=page_internal 

If you book please commit to attending, if you are unable to attend please cancel your space as soon as possible to enable others to book and if something comes up last minute, be courteous and get in touch to let us know.

Look forward to seeing you all there

Paul 

North Wales Co-ordinator

Start

09/01/2022 10:00

End

09/01/2022 13:00

Total Days

0.5

Maximum Bookings

20

Bookings

15

Venue

Great Orme Summit car park

Town

Llandudno

County

Conwy Principal Area

Postcode

LL30 2QZ

Country

United Kingdom

Latitude

53.33242

Longitude

-3.85546

Name

Mountain Training Association

Phone

07786360347

Email