8 Best Children's Farms In Kent

Three of the eight children's farms listed for Kent are pumpkin patches — Stanhill Farm, Four Winds Farm and Pumpkin Moon Farms — which tells you something about how this category behaves here: a fair chunk of it only really runs in autumn. The year-round core is smaller but solid. Bore Place, a working organic farm near Chiddingstone, holds the highest rating on this page at 4.9 and lists free entry. Rare Breeds Centre at Woodchurch is the biggest single day out of the group, pairing paddocks and animal encounters with covered play space, and Kent Life near Maidstone folds a heritage village in with its farmyard. Four of the eight venues have indoor space of some kind, so a wet forecast does not automatically cancel the trip, but the balance of the category is honest outdoor farmyard: boots, mud and animals that need feeding whatever the sky is doing. Eagle Heights, a bird-of-prey centre at Eynsford, sits in this list too and suits a child whose animal interest runs to talons rather than trotters.